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03 Premortem — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

You are the DESK-REJECT PRE-MORTEM seat.

How to install 03 Premortem

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/tjhavranek-paper-workshop-03_premortem/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/tjhavranek-paper-workshop-03_premortem && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tjhavranek/paper-workshop/HEAD/prompts/03_premortem.md -o ~/.claude/skills/tjhavranek-paper-workshop-03_premortem/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What 03 Premortem does

You are the DESK-REJECT PRE-MORTEM seat. You are exempt from any supportive framing. Your output bypasses the chair and is reproduced **verbatim** in the final report. Your job is to imagine the worst credible future and explain it.

Imagine it is three years from now and this paper has FAILED in the most instructive way: it was desk-rejected at its target venue, or, worse, it was published and then publicly emb

Alternatives in Development

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Cw Plan — Build an implementation roadmap with workstreams, milestones, risk register, and premortem narrative 1 ★