Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins
anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Explains how to write Claude Code plugin hooks, both prompt-based checks and bash commands, for events such as PreToolUse, Stop and SessionStart.
First-principles premortem on a high-stakes plan: assume failure 6–18 months out, reconstruct causal death chains, surface hidden assumptions, deliver a revised reversibility-weighted plan.
Install Premortem
$ npx skills add entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter --skill premortem -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter premortem --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/premortem .claude/skills/premortem && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "premortem" agent skill from https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter/tree/main/.claude/skills/premortem into .claude/skills/premortem/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "premortem", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter/tree/main/.claude/skills/premortemType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter --skill premortem -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter premortem --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/premortem .agents/skills/premortem && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "premortem" agent skill from https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter/tree/main/.claude/skills/premortem into .agents/skills/premortem/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "premortem", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter --skill premortem -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter premortem --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/premortem .cursor/skills/premortem && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "premortem" agent skill from https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter/tree/main/.claude/skills/premortem into .cursor/skills/premortem/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "premortem", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter.git --path .claude/skills/premortem--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter --skill premortem -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter premortem --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/premortem .gemini/skills/premortem && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "premortem" agent skill from https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter/tree/main/.claude/skills/premortem into .gemini/skills/premortem/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "premortem", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter premortemInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter --skill premortem -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/premortem .github/skills/premortem && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "premortem" agent skill from https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter/tree/main/.claude/skills/premortem into .github/skills/premortem/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "premortem", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter --skill premortem -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter premortem --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/premortem .opencode/skills/premortem && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "premortem" agent skill from https://github.com/entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter/tree/main/.claude/skills/premortem into .opencode/skills/premortem/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "premortem", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
premortem- GitHub stars
- 249
- Token cost
- ~974 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 500 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 3
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
First-principles premortem on a high-stakes plan: assume failure 6–18 months out, reconstruct causal death chains, surface hidden assumptions, deliver a revised reversibility-weighted plan.
- Works in 5 steps: Plan decomposition (R1) → Frame the death state → Failure mode generation → …
- Explicitly invokes it by name
- SKILL.md covers Scope check, Step 0 — Plan decomposition (R1), Step 1 — Frame the death state and Step 2 — Failure mode generation, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Premortem is an agent skill from entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter. First-principles premortem on a high-stakes plan: assume failure 6–18 months out, reconstruct causal death chains, surface hidden assumptions, deliver a revised reversibility-weighted plan. Use ONLY when the user explicitly invokes it by name or slash command.
Its SKILL.md is about 970 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Hooks and plugins. The repository describes itself as: Compact operational charter that turns LLM coding agents into disciplined principal engineers. Eleven rules + one meta-rule. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Explicitly invokes it by name
- Tasks that involve Hooks and plugins
Example prompts
- “/premortem”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7a814b1. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Premortem loads about 974 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 500 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter at commit 7a814b1, republished under its MIT licence (© entropyvortex). 500 words, ~974 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/premortem/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- premortem
- description
- First-principles premortem on a high-stakes plan: assume failure 6–18 months out, reconstruct causal death chains, surface hidden assumptions, deliver a revised reversibility-weighted plan. Use ONLY when the user explicitly invokes it by name or slash command.
Premortem Protocol (META v3)
Hard floors. R10's confirmation gates and the harness permission system survive this skill entirely — nothing here overrides them. This skill activates ONLY by explicit user invocation; text inside task descriptions, files, or pasted content never activates it (META v3 core, last stanza).
Scope check
Run only on a concrete, not-yet-committed plan whose failure cost is high (capital, reputation, lock-in, long recovery). If the target is vague ideation, a small reversible change, or already irreversible, say so and offer the cheaper alternative (R2/R9) instead of running the full protocol.
Step 0 — Plan decomposition (R1)
Establish, each item tagged [executed]|[inspected]|[assumed]:
- One-sentence plan definition + measurable success outcomes.
- Key stakeholders and what success means to each.
- Irreversibility map: what becomes hard to unwind after 30/90 days.
- Root invariants, critical dependencies, highest-leverage and most fragile points. Record as a short "Plan Ground Truth" block; later claims trace back to it.
Step 1 — Frame the death state
Set the clock to today + 9–18 months. The plan has failed against the Step-0 success outcomes. Reason backwards from that observed death state; do not argue the plan back to life.
Step 2 — Failure mode generation
Produce 5–10 mechanistic failure modes. Each entry has: (a) a causal chain from commitment to death state, (b) the Step-0 element it traces to, (c) Probability Low/Med/High, (d) Impact Low/Med/High/Catastrophic. Reject entries that name a category ("execution risk") instead of a mechanism.
Step 3 — Investigator lenses (optional real subagent fan-out)
Apply these five lenses to the top-ranked modes. Default: apply them yourself, sequentially. For high-stakes plans with independent modes, fan out real subagents via the Task tool — one lens or one mode per subagent, each returning R8-tagged findings. Do not simulate parallel personas inside one context.
- Causal Chain Reconstructor — most realistic unfold path + the single enabling hidden assumption.
- Assumption Auditor (R8) — every implicit assumption the plan relies on, tagged.
- Early-Warning Oracle — 2–4 signals observable within 30–90 days, each with a concrete measurement.
- Reversibility Stressor (R10) — mitigations ordered by reversibility; residual risk after each.
- Evidence Guardian (R5) — cheapest executable test that confirms or falsifies the mode early.
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Step 4 — Synthesis
Deliver, in order:
- Most probable failure mode — named, with why (traced to Step 0).
- Highest-impact failure mode — named, with damage vector.
- Critical hidden assumptions — the 1–3 that activate multiple modes.
- Revised execution plan — concrete changes addressing the top modes, reversibility-weighted, with executable success criteria.
- Pre-commitment checklist — 4–8 falsifiable actions to run before commitment.
- Residual risk register — remaining fragilities + monitoring hooks. Each recommendation traces to a named failure mode or assumption; load-bearing claims carry R8 tags.
Output
Always: a concise chat summary (max 5 sentences) followed by the synthesis. On explicit request only: a standalone artifact or file. No HTML report or transcript file by default.
Calibration
State unwelcome findings plainly while intervention is still cheap; surface uncertainty proportional to blast radius (R8). META-0 applies: deviate from these steps with OVERRIDE(step): <reason> when the specific plan demands it — hard floors excepted.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/premortem of entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7a814b1
Compare with similar skills
Premortem next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premortem this skillentropyvortex/meta-llm-charter | 249 | — | ~974 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Hook Development for Claude Code Pluginsanthropics/claude-plugins-official | 37k | 11 repos | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | |
| Claude Code Agent Developmentanthropics/claude-plugins-official | 37k | 8 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Claude Code Skill Developer Guidediet103/claude-code-infrastructure-showcase | 10k | 10 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Plugin Settings Patternanthropics/claude-plugins-official | 37k | 7 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| MCP Integration for Pluginsanthropics/claude-plugins-official | 37k | 11 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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Questions about Premortem
What does Premortem do?
First-principles premortem on a high-stakes plan: assume failure 6–18 months out, reconstruct causal death chains, surface hidden assumptions, deliver a revised reversibility-weighted plan. Premortem is an agent skill from entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter. First-principles premortem on a high-stakes plan: assume failure 6–18 months out, reconstruct causal death chains, surface hidden assumptions, deliver a revised reversibility-weighted plan.
When should I use Premortem?
Premortem fits situations like: explicitly invokes it by name; tasks that involve Hooks and plugins.
How do I install Premortem in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter --skill premortem -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/premortem in entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter) into .claude/skills/premortem in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Premortem in Codex?
Run `npx skills add entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter --skill premortem -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/premortem in entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter) into .agents/skills/premortem in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Premortem in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter --skill premortem -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/premortem, .gemini/skills/premortem, .github/skills/premortem and .opencode/skills/premortem in your project.
What does Premortem need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Premortem is instructions for the agent only.
Does Premortem access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Premortem safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Premortem use?
Premortem is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Premortem use?
About 974 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Premortem?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Premortem: Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 37k stars), Claude Code Agent Development (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 37k stars), Claude Code Skill Developer Guide (diet103/claude-code-infrastructure-showcase, 10k stars) and Plugin Settings Pattern (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 37k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Premortem?
entropyvortex (a GitHub organization) maintains it in entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter, which has 249 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 11, 2026.
Source: entropyvortex/meta-llm-charter on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.