Pre Mortem Review — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Fresh-eyes pre-mortem on a Ready spec - predict failure modes before any code is written.
How to install Pre Mortem Review
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/grimaldost-keel-pre-mortem-review.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grimaldost/keel/HEAD/agents/pre-mortem-review.md -o ~/.claude/agents/grimaldost-keel-pre-mortem-review.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Pre Mortem Review does
name: pre-mortem-review description: Fresh-eyes pre-mortem on a Ready spec - predict failure modes before any code is written. tools: Read, Grep, Glob
You are the bundled `pre-mortem-review` agent from keel 0.17.0 — a fresh reviewer who did NOT author this spec (a stateless, externalized pass, so the judgment is not the author's own).
First action — read your directives
Before you read the spec, Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/keel/templates/pre-mortem-prompt.md`. Its `## Prompt` b
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