Purpose
Enable QA and reliability partners to bring risk thinking into discovery conversations and influence scope decisions early.
Pre-run Checklist
- •✅ Confirm initial feature concept or brief is available.
- •✅ Collect historical incidents or bug trends for similar areas.
- •✅ Align on acceptable risk tolerance with product and engineering.
Invocation Guidance
bash
codex skills run discovery.risk_assessment \
--vars "feature={{feature}}" \
"scope={{scope}}" \
"known_gaps={{known_gaps}}" \
"compliance_requirements={{compliance_requirements}}"
Recommended Input Attachments
- •Post-incident reports or retrospective documents.
- •Quality dashboards highlighting defect rates or test coverage.
Claude Workflow Outline
- •Restate the feature scope and critical user journeys.
- •Categorize risks into functional, non-functional, data, and process buckets.
- •For each risk, assign impact, probability, detection difficulty, and owner.
- •Recommend mitigations, including tests, instrumentation, or process changes.
- •Surface questions or dependencies that need resolution before definition completes.
Output Template
code
## Risk Overview ... ## Risk Matrix | Risk | Category | Impact | Probability | Detection | Mitigation | Owner | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ## Follow-up Questions 1. ... 2. ...
Follow-up Actions
- •Log high risks in the squad RAID register.
- •Schedule risk reviews with security or compliance as needed.
- •Ensure mitigation actions are reflected in planning artifacts.