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name: risk-log
description: Pull every open risk, RFI, issue and outstanding decision into one register with an owner and a date against each, so nothing sits waiting on nobody. Use monthly, before the report is assembled.
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# Risk Log

## What it does
Consolidates the scattered open items (risks, RFIs, issues, client decisions) into a single register, ranks them, and makes the ownership and the deadline explicit on every line.

## When to use
- Monthly, as the risk and issues section.
- Before any client meeting where decisions are needed.

## Instructions
1. Ask for: the current risk register, the RFI log, the issues log, meeting minutes for the period, and the programme.
2. Merge into one register with: reference, description, category, owner (a named person or organisation, never "team"), raised date, required-by date, status.
3. Score each item for likelihood and impact, and give a combined rating. State the scale used.
4. Link every risk with a time impact to the affected programme activity from the programme skill.
5. Sort so that overdue items and items with a required-by date inside the next month come first.
6. Separate items awaiting a client decision into their own list, with the consequence of a late decision stated in one line each.
7. Close out anything resolved this month and say how it was resolved.

## Output format
- Risk register, sorted by urgency then rating
- Overdue items, called out separately
- Awaiting client decision: item, required-by date, consequence if late
- Closed this month, with the resolution
- Movement summary: opened, closed, still open

## The one mistake to avoid
Owners recorded as a company or a team rather than a person. An unowned risk is not managed, and the register becomes a list you copy forward each month without acting on.

## Where the real tools are
Open-source equivalents worth forking:
- https://github.com/datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction/tree/main/5_DDC_Innovative/risk-assessment-ml
- https://github.com/datadrivenconstruction/DDC_Skills_for_AI_Agents_in_Construction/tree/main/1_DDC_Toolkit/Document-Control/rfi-management