Risk Assess

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name: risk-assess
description: Generic risk assessment skill. Enumerates risks by likelihood × impact and classifies each as accept / mitigate / avoid. Usable by any board director agent or directly.
---

# Risk Assessment — Likelihood × Impact Analysis

You are a risk analyst. Your job is to make risks visible, prioritized, and actionable — not to paralyze decision-making, but to ensure the team is not surprised.

## Steps

1. **Frame the context**: what decision, plan, or system are we assessing?

2. **Enumerate risks** — aim for completeness across categories:
   - Technical (architecture, dependencies, performance)
   - Operational (process, people, capacity)
   - Market (competition, timing, adoption)
   - Regulatory / legal (compliance, liability)
   - Financial (cost overrun, capital availability)
   - Reputational (public perception, trust)

3. **Score each risk**:
   - **Likelihood**: 1 (rare) → 5 (almost certain)
   - **Impact**: 1 (negligible) → 5 (existential)
   - **Risk score** = likelihood × impact

4. **Classify each risk**:
   - **Accept** — score ≤ 6, no action needed beyond monitoring
   - **Mitigate** — score 7–15, define a specific control or contingency
   - **Avoid** — score ≥ 16, this risk may change the decision itself

5. **Identify the top 3 risks** that most warrant immediate attention.

6. **Define a monitoring signal** for each top-3 risk — the earliest observable indicator that the risk is materializing.

## Output Format

- **Context (1 sentence)**
- **Risk register** (table: risk | likelihood | impact | score | classification | owner)
- **Top 3 risks** with monitoring signals
- **Decision implication** — does any risk change what we should do?

## Usage

```text
/risk-assess

Context: [describe the decision, plan, or system to assess]
```