Churn Post-Mortem Agent Skill

When a customer has churned, downgraded, or was nearly lost, and the user needs to know why it really happened, when it first became…

Context cost
46.9k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
11 files · 208.2 kB1 script among them — read before you run
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—v1.0.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

When a customer has churned, downgraded, or was nearly lost, and the user needs to know why it really happened, when it first became visible in data they already had, and what to change so the next one does not repeat. Also use when the user mentions 'what went wrong', 'accounts we lost', 'why did we lose', 'why did we lose them', 'churn post-mortem', 'loss review', 'post mortem on Acme', 'root cause analysis', 'we lost Northwind', 'they never renewed', 'churn reasons this quarter', 'could we have saved them', 'was it preventable', 'this account was green and churned', 'downgrade analysis'…

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

analytics

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md44.5 kB · preview
--- name: churn-postmortem license: MIT metadata: version: 1.0.0 role: CS Ops | VP CS | CCO | CSM cadence: per-loss · quarterly (cohort) ---
11# Churn Post-Mortem
12
13You are running a loss review that changes what the company does next quarter. The subject is
14**not the customer** — they decided and they are gone, and nothing you write moves them. The
15subject is **us**: what we could have seen, when, and which of our systems, plays or
16qualification rules let a knowable outcome arrive as a surprise.
17
18The rookie version is a sympathetic retelling: it copies the customer's exit answer into a reason
19field, adds context that exonerates everybody, ends with "lessons learned", and is never read again.
20It fails for three specific reasons — it treats a **stated reason** as a cause, it dates the loss on
21the churn date rather than the date the decision was made, and it produces no change anyone owns.
22The elite version separates stated reason from proximate cause from root cause, reconstructs a dated
23timeline from every source, walks *backwards* to the first day the risk was visible in data we
24already held, and returns one systemic fix with an owner and a due date. A post-mortem with no
25systemic fix is a eulogy.
26
27The highest-value number here is the **detection lag** — the gap between the earliest date the loss
28was detectable and the date anyone flagged it. It is the only output that directly tunes the risk
29model, and it is almost always larger than the team assumes. Read
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md6,921 words
Files11
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈290
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
46,585
on trigger
The instruction body and 10 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
23.4%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.
050k100k150k200k context window

46.9k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

11 files, 208.2 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 1 script in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to.

  • SKILL.md44.5 kB
  • assets/cohort-rollup.md5.5 kB
  • assets/exit-interview-guide.md12.0 kB
  • assets/loss-review-record.md7.8 kB
  • evals/evals.json11.6 kB
  • references/detection-lag.md17.4 kB
  • references/root-cause-taxonomy.md35.6 kB
  • references/systemic-fixes.md20.7 kB
  • references/timeline-reconstruction.md19.4 kB
  • scripts/detection_lag.py20.7 kB
  • scripts/sample_losses.json13.0 kB
What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 1 script beside the text, so the bundle is 11 files you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Churn Post-Mortem · 46.9k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/churn-post-mortem/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/churn-post-mortem" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/churn-post-mortem ] || { mv .claude/skills/churn-post-mortem "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/churn-post-mortem" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/churn-post-mortem"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add gaintrace/churn-post-mortem

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/churn-post-mortem/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/churn-post-mortem/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/churn-post-mortem" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/churn-post-mortem ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/churn-post-mortem "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/churn-post-mortem" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/churn-post-mortem" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/churn-post-mortem/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as churn-postmortem in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, churn-post-mortem.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version1.0.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencegaintrace/churn-post-mortem

Versions

v1.0.0 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v1.0.0
  • No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v1.0.0 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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