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Agent Academy is a free, source-linked library of skills, prompts, MCP servers and bot templates, organised into courses by profession, for people who hand real work to AI agents: 1,467 live resources, each with its original link, license and safety tags.

Skill

risk-assessment

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.

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npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill risk-assessment

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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 ImpactMedium ImpactHigh Impact
High LikelihoodMediumHighCritical
Medium LikelihoodLowMediumHigh
Low LikelihoodLowLowMedium

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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