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49 battle-tested PM frameworks, ready for Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, and any agent that can read structured knowledge.


Why This Exists

Generic AI output is a PM's worst enemy. When you tell your agent "write a PRD" without shared context, you get a generic document that no stakeholder trusts and no engineer can act on.

This library gives both you and your AI agent the same professional foundation: the why behind each framework, the failure modes to avoid, and the judgment to apply them correctly. You stop repeating yourself. Your agent stops guessing. The work gets better.

The goal is dual — functional and pedagogic in equal measure. Skills equip agents to do PM work at a professional level, and they teach the human PM the reasoning behind each framework — so you can explain it, adapt it, and pass it on. Neither is a byproduct of the other.


What You Can Get Done

Navigate by what you're actually trying to accomplish:

Framing and strategy

  • problem-framing-canvas — MITRE's Look Inward / Look Outward / Reframe sequence; stops teams from solving the wrong problem
  • positioning-statement — Geoffrey Moore's template for defining who you serve, what you solve, and how you're different
  • product-strategy-session — full strategy arc: positioning → problem framing → solution exploration → roadmap (2-4 weeks)

Customer discovery and research

Prioritization and roadmapping

  • prioritization-advisor — asks 3-5 questions about your context, then recommends RICE, ICE, Kano, or the right alternative
  • epic-breakdown-advisor — splits large epics using Richard Lawrence's 9 patterns
  • roadmap-planning — gather inputs → define epics → prioritize → sequence → communicate (1-2 weeks)

Writing PM deliverables

  • user-story — Mike Cohn format + Gherkin acceptance criteria, with anti-patterns
  • prd-development — structured PRD: problem → personas → solution → metrics → stories (2-4 days)
  • press-release — Amazon Working Backwards: clarify product vision before writing a line of spec

Validation and experimentation

  • pol-probe-advisor — recommends which prototype type to run based on your hypothesis and risk level
  • pol-probe — template for documenting lightweight validation experiments before building

Finance and growth

  • business-health-diagnostic — diagnoses SaaS health across growth, retention, efficiency, and capital using your real metrics
  • organic-growth-advisor — McKinsey Growth Pyramid triage: diagnoses whether your constraint is in new segments, geographies, channels, or products
  • feature-investment-advisor — build / don't build recommendation using revenue impact, cost, ROI, and strategic value

Career and leadership transitions

AI product work


Get Started

Choose your setup:

I use... Get this Notes
Claude Desktop or Claude Web pm-skills-starter-pack.zip Unzip, then upload the individual skill ZIPs to Claude Skills
Claude Code Plugin marketplace claude /plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
Codex pm-skills-codex.zip Installs .agents/skills and AGENTS.md
Not sure pm-skills-starter-pack.zip Start here

All downloads: GitHub Releases

Themed packs for Claude Desktop / Web

Each pack below is a ZIP of upload-ready skill ZIPs — unzip, then upload individuals to Claude Skills:

Pack Download What's inside
Starter pm-skills-starter-pack.zip Core skills across all categories
Discovery 02-discovery-pack.zip Research, interviewing, synthesis
Strategy 03-strategy-pack.zip Positioning, roadmapping, prioritization
Delivery 04-delivery-pack.zip PRDs, stories, epics
AI PM 05-ai-pm-pack.zip Context engineering, orchestration, readiness
All skills 99-all-skills-pack.zip All 49 skills

Install guides


Try It First — Streamlit (beta)

Not ready to wire skills into your agent setup? Run the local playground first and kick the tires in your browser.

pip install -r app/requirements.txt
streamlit run app/main.py

What you can do:

  • Learn — browse setup and integration paths without leaving the app
  • Find My Skill — describe your situation in plain English and get recommended skills
  • Run Skills — run a skill with your own scenario once you know what you want

Multi-provider support: Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama. API keys via environment variables only (no in-app key entry).

Docs: app/STREAMLIT_INTERFACE.md · app/.env.example

Feedback welcome via GitHub Issues or LinkedIn.


49 Skills, 3 Types

Skills are organized in three tiers that build on each other:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  WORKFLOW SKILLS (6)                                   │
│  Complete end-to-end PM processes (days to weeks)      │
│  Example: run a full discovery cycle or write a PRD    │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                       ↓ orchestrates
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  INTERACTIVE SKILLS (22)                               │
│  Guided discovery — 3-5 questions, then recommendations│
│  Example: "Which prioritization framework fits here?"  │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                       ↓ uses
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  COMPONENT SKILLS (21)                                 │
│  Templates for specific PM deliverables (30-90 min)    │
│  Example: write a user story with acceptance criteria  │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Interactive skills use an Adaptive Decision Ladder. Instead of dumping a framework at you, an interactive skill asks 3-5 targeted questions about your specific context, then offers numbered recommendations — each with a clear "use this when" rationale. You pick a path. The skill executes it and explains the why as it goes. If you want to just learn the framework without doing the work, you can ask that too — the skill coaches you either way. This is ABC — Always Be Coaching — in practice.

Full catalog: catalog/INDEX.md — all 49 skills with descriptions, or browse skills/ directly.


How a Skill File Works

Every SKILL.md follows the same structure:

Section What it contains
Frontmatter name, description, type, intent, best_for, scenarios
Purpose What this skill does and when to reach for it
Key Concepts Frameworks, definitions, anti-patterns — with vocabulary explained
Application Step-by-step instructions an agent (or human) can follow
Examples Real-world cases showing both good and bad versions
Common Pitfalls Named failure modes with consequences and corrections
References Related skills and external frameworks

The best_for frontmatter field lists 3-5 specific scenarios where the skill is most useful — helpful for quickly scanning whether a skill fits your situation.


Works With

Claude Code · Claude Desktop · Claude Web · OpenAI Codex · ChatGPT · Cursor · Windsurf · n8n · LangFlow · CrewAI · Gemini · any agent that reads structured markdown

See docs/Platform Guides for PMs.md for platform-specific setup.


Docs

Document Purpose
Using PM Skills 101 Beginner-friendly orientation — setup without technical overload
Platform Guides for PMs Tool-by-tool setup chooser for every supported platform
Using PM Skills with Claude Claude Code + GitHub ZIP upload for Claude Desktop/Web
Using PM Skills with Codex Local workspace + GitHub-connected Codex on ChatGPT
Using PM Skills with ChatGPT GitHub app, Custom GPT Knowledge, and Project-based usage
Using PM Skills with Slash Commands 101 Turn skills into reusable slash commands like /pm-story
Add-a-Skill Utility Guide End-to-end guide for generating and validating new skills
Building PM Skills How raw PM content gets distilled into agent-ready skills
START_HERE.md 60-second onboarding for local repo users

What's New

v0.79 — May 15, 2026

  • Added organic-growth-advisor — McKinsey Growth Pyramid triage for new segments, geographies, channels, or products
  • Added pm-skill-creator — interactive skill for designing repo-compliant skills via guided conversation
  • Fixed missing .claude-plugin/plugin.json that silently blocked Claude Code skill discovery
  • Added configurable input length guard (PM_MAX_INPUT) and path traversal protection to helper scripts

v0.78 — April 26, 2026

  • Added one-command release packaging: ./scripts/build-release.sh
  • Added themed ZIP packs for Claude Desktop/Web (starter, discovery, strategy, delivery, AI PM, all-skills)
  • Added Codex ZIP with .agents/skills and AGENTS.md
  • Added GitHub Actions to build and publish release artifacts on v* tags

Full changelog


Contributing

Found a gap? Have a PM framework worth formalizing? The bar is pedagogic — skills must teach the why, not just the how.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines, or open an issue to start a conversation.


License

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with share-alike.


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