Failure Map
# Failure Map — the master prompt for planning ONE real project. # Run it against your strongest model (Fable 5). Fill the {{...}} blocks. # Draft lands in domains/plans/{{NN-name}}.md. Check it against # rubrics/FAILURE-MAP-SUCCESS.md (all 8) before a cheaper model runs it. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I want you to write me a FAILURE MAP for one specific project — a step-by-step plan detailed enough that a cheaper AI model can follow it start to finish without asking me anything, with a **tripwire** planted at every point it could fall off. THE PROJECT: {{what exists now, what "done" looks like, the hard constraints — compliance, latency, budget, zero-downtime, data residency — and how serious it is: POC / demo / production}} Look first, don't touch: {{the repo / system / inputs it should read before planning}}. Then write the map so that: - each step says what the model should SEE if it worked, - each step plants a **tripwire** — the most likely way it fails and what to do instead, - where the path can branch, give a clear trigger ("if you see X, do Y") so nothing is left to guesswork, - anything you can't confirm up front is flagged, with the exact check that settles it, - it ends with how to stop safely if things go wrong, and the checks that prove it's done. Then poke holes in your own map once — find where it would break in practice, fix it, and tell me what you changed. Write it so someone could hand it to a mid-tier model and it just runs. Grade against rubrics/FAILURE-MAP-SUCCESS.md before returning.
fill the variables
This prompt has 3 variables. Pro fills them into a ready-to-paste prompt for you — no manual find-and-replace.
{{...}{{NN-name}{{the repo / system / inputs it should read before planning}
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Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo IcHiGo-KuRoSaKiI/Greybeard (MIT). A "Failure Map" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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roleplaycommunitygeneral
source
IcHiGo-KuRoSaKiI/Greybeard · MIT