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Decision Autopsy
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-08
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Judge a past decision by its PROCESS, not its outcome — because good decisions lose and bad decisions win, and teams that can't tell the difference learn the wrong lessons. Use when reviewing a big call after the fact (a bet that failed, a pass that haunts, a hire, a pivot) and the room is about to conclude 'it failed so it was wrong.' Produces a process-forensics report: what was knowable then, the quality grade of the decision as-made, the luck accounting, and the ONE process change worth keeping.
What to give it
▸The decision — what was decided, when, by whom, and what the live alternatives were.
▸What was knowable at the time — the information, constraints, and time pressure as of the decision date. Be strict: things learned afterward go in a separate pile, and the autopsy will police the boundary.
▸The outcome — what actually happened, so the luck accounting has something to account.
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The decision grade was assigned from the knowability ledger BEFORE outcome discussion, and the report's structure shows it
✓At least one hindsight contamination is caught and named — reviews without any are usually not looking
✓The luck paragraph commits to a rough proportion, with reasoning — "some luck was involved" is evasion
✓The process change is executable next quarter and testable ("did we do it?"), not a value statement
✓If the decision was 🟢 and the outcome bad, the report says the uncomfortable sentence plainly: "do it again"
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not let the outcome leak into the grade — a bad result may not appear as evidence of a bad decision anywhere in the report
Do not run an autopsy as a trial — no verdicts on people; the unit of analysis is the process that any competent person was embedded in
Do not conclude "we were unlucky" without the ledger to earn it — luck is the residual after process is examined, never the headline
Do not extract more than one lesson — the second-best lesson dilutes the best one
Do not autopsy decisions younger than their outcome — if the result isn't actually in yet, this is a premortem's job
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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