risk-assessment

$npx mdskill add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/risk-assessment

Systematically identifies, assesses, and plans mitigations for operational risks in projects, vendors, processes, or decisions.

  • Helps users evaluate and manage risks across categories like operational, financial, compliance, strategic, reputational, and security.
  • Integrates with a risk assessment matrix to categorize risks based on likelihood and impact levels.
  • Decides recommendations by analyzing risk descriptions, likelihood, impact, and applying a standardized risk register format.
  • Presents results using a structured risk register with details like mitigation plans, owners, and statuses.
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name: risk-assessment
description: Identify, assess, and mitigate operational risks. Trigger with "what are the risks", "risk assessment", "risk register", "what could go wrong", or when the user is evaluating risks associated with a project, vendor, process, or decision.
---

# Risk Assessment

Systematically identify, assess, and plan mitigations for operational risks.

## Risk Assessment Matrix

| | Low Impact | Medium Impact | High Impact |
|---|-----------|---------------|-------------|
| **High Likelihood** | Medium | High | Critical |
| **Medium Likelihood** | Low | Medium | High |
| **Low Likelihood** | Low | Low | Medium |

## Risk Categories

- **Operational**: Process failures, staffing gaps, system outages
- **Financial**: Budget overruns, vendor cost increases, revenue impact
- **Compliance**: Regulatory violations, audit findings, policy breaches
- **Strategic**: Market changes, competitive threats, technology shifts
- **Reputational**: Customer impact, public perception, partner relationships
- **Security**: Data breaches, access control failures, third-party vulnerabilities

## Risk Register Format

For each risk, document:
- **Description**: What could happen
- **Likelihood**: High / Medium / Low
- **Impact**: High / Medium / Low
- **Risk Level**: Critical / High / Medium / Low
- **Mitigation**: What we're doing to reduce likelihood or impact
- **Owner**: Who is responsible for managing this risk
- **Status**: Open / Mitigated / Accepted / Closed

## Output

Produce a prioritized risk register with specific, actionable mitigations. Focus on risks that are controllable and material.
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