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Premortem

Premortem is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by nicepkg in auto-company.

188 stars57 forkson nicepkg/auto-companyAdded 2026/09/06+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/02/12

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24-7agent-teamsai-agentsai-automationai-companyanthropicautomationautonomousclaudeclaude-codehackersmulti-agent

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Install Premortem

Copy Premortem into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/nicepkg/auto-company/tree/main/.claude/skills/premortem ~/.claude/skills/premortem

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/nicepkg/auto-company.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/premortem/SKILL.md in nicepkg/auto-company
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/premortem
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Premortem does

Premortem imagines a plan has already failed, then works backward to identify likely causes and mitigations. Use it before launches, major decisions, or risky initiatives to surface hidden risks.

Premortem is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Premortem comes from a repository tagged 24-7, agent-teams, ai-agents, ai-automation and ai-company.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Pre-Mortem Analysis

Imagine the plan has completely failed, then work backward to identify what went wrong and how to prevent it.

Instructions

Set the scene: "It's [timeframe] in the future. This initiative was a complete disaster. Looking back, what happened?"

Generate failure scenarios without filtering for likelihood—get everything on the table first, then prioritize.

Output Format

The Plan Summarize what's being attempted and the success criteria.

Time Jump "It's [X months] later. This has failed completely. The outcome: [describe the disaster vividly]."

What Went Wrong

Generate 8-12 plausible failure causes across categories:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Premortem

What else does nicepkg publish alongside Premortem?
Premortem is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nicepkg/auto-company, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Browser, Code Review Security and Cold Email Sequence Generator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Premortem does, and is maintained by nicepkg in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nicepkg/auto-company page.
How does Premortem compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Premortem ranks #2980 by stars among the 3278 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Premortem against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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