Premortem — Development skill for Claude Code
Imagine the project failed in 6 months — what broke, what we missed.
How to install Premortem
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/agoradynamics-wick-premortem.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agoradynamics/wick/HEAD/.claude/commands/premortem.md -o ~/.claude/commands/agoradynamics-wick-premortem.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Premortem does
description: Imagine the project failed in 6 months — what broke, what we missed argument-hint: [project]
*Updated: 2026-05-06 · first written 2026-05-06*
Premortem analysis on: **$ARGUMENTS**
Imagine it's six months from now and the project failed. Walk through:
- What broke — the specific failure mode that killed it
- What we missed — the assumption that turned out to be wrong
- What warning signs we ignored — the early indicators that should have triggered a course
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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