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Risk Assessment

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anthropics·vlatest·security·Apache-2.0

This skill analyzes information to identify potential risks and their likelihood, aiding in proactive decision-making and mitigation strategies.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill risk-assessment -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

anthropics

Matched to the vendor's own GitHub organisation.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins at da38ec1ee8.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
da38ec1ee8
Manifest
operations/skills/risk-assessment/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 41 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill systematically identifies, assesses, and plans mitigations for operational risks. It analyzes information to determine potential risks, their likelihood (High, Medium, or Low), and impact (Low, Medium, or High). The output is a prioritized risk register detailing each risk with specific, actionable mitigation strategies. This allows for proactive decision-making and the development of strategies to reduce the likelihood or impact of identified risks.

When to use it

  • Evaluating potential operational changes before implementation.
  • Identifying vulnerabilities in existing processes.
  • Preparing for audits or regulatory reviews.
  • Assessing the impact of market shifts on business operations.
  • Proactively addressing security concerns and data breach prevention.

Key capabilities

  • Risk Identification across various categories: Operational, Financial, Compliance, Strategic, Reputational, Security.
  • Assessment of risk Likelihood (High/Medium/Low).
  • Assessment of risk Impact (Low/Medium/High).
  • Determination of Risk Level (Critical/High/Medium/Low) based on likelihood and impact.
  • Generation of a prioritized Risk Register with documented descriptions, mitigation plans, owners, and status.

Example prompts

  • "Analyze our new marketing campaign for potential operational risks."
  • "Create a risk assessment for the upcoming system upgrade, focusing on security implications.”
  • “Identify financial risks associated with expanding into a new market.”

Tips & gotchas

  • The skill focuses on controllable and material risks.
  • Risk levels are determined by combining likelihood and impact assessments using a matrix (Low/Medium/High Likelihood combined with Low/Medium/High Impact).
  • Ensure you provide sufficient information about the context being assessed for accurate risk identification.