product-on-purpose-pm-skills

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• Quick Start
• Recent Updates
• The Big Idea
  • Who Is This For
  • Key Features
  • Skill Lifecycle Tools
  • Founded On
• Installation and Setup
• How Agent Skills Work
• The Skill Library
  • Foundation Skills
  • Discover Phase Skills
  • Define Phase Skills
  • Develop Phase Skills
  • Deliver Phase Skills
  • Measure Phase Skills
  • Iterate Phase Skills
  • Tool Family: Foundation Sprint
  • Tool Family: Design Sprint
  • Standalone Tool Skill
  • Utility Skills
  • Sub-Agents
  • Workflows
• Library Examples
• Learning and Resources
• Project Status
• Contributing
• Community
• FAQ
• About the Author

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Quick Start

After installing, you'll have all 68 skills available (invoke any by name, like /pm-skills:deliver-prd, /pm-skills:define-hypothesis, /pm-skills:deliver-user-stories) plus 10 /workflow-* orchestrator commands and the /chain ad-hoc runner, templates, sub-agents, and 200+ sample outputs.

Claude Code (recommended):

/plugin marketplace add product-on-purpose/agent-plugins
/plugin install pm-skills@product-on-purpose

Already installed via the old pm-skills-marketplace? It keeps working - no action needed. To move to the new home, see the v2.21.0 release notes.

Cross-agent (Cursor, Copilot, Cline, and others via the open skills CLI):

npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills

Clone or download:

git clone https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills.git

More resources:

• Getting Started Guide - Detailed walkthrough for new users covering clone, sync helper, and first skill run. The path to take if any of the quick start steps above leave gaps.
• Setup by Platform - Step-by-step install for Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, VS Code extensions, and ChatGPT.
• Quickstart Reference - Short-form reference card for users who just need the commands.

Optional: let the skills remember your project

By default every skill starts cold, so you re-supply your phase, your current initiative, and anything a previous skill already produced. You can record that once instead.

Add .claude/pm-skills.local.md to your .gitignore, then create it:

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schema: 1
phase: discover
active_initiative: "Self-serve onboarding"
---

Eight skills now read it. The moment worth seeing: run discover-interview-synthesis on your research, confirm the entry it offers to record, then run deliver-prd. It uses the personas you already produced rather than asking you to paste them again.

Nothing happens until you create the file, and writes are proposed for your confirmation rather than applied. Full schema, the list of participating skills, and the limits it does not yet cover: Hooks and project memory.

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Recent Updates

The companion pm-skills-mcp server is in the v2.9.x maintenance line (latest v2.9.3) and remains available on npm for clients that need MCP transport. The catalog is frozen at the v2.9.2 build; subsequent v2.9.x patches do not change the catalog. Active development on the MCP server is paused; security patches and critical bug fixes will continue.

Recommendation: For new users, we recommend using the plugin. See Installation and Setup for other options.

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What's New

Version	Date	Highlights
v2.33.0	2026-08-29	The release users notice. See CHANGELOG.
v2.32.0	2026-08-14	Project memory: the catalog stops asking you to repeat yourself. See CHANGELOG.
v2.31.1	2026-07-31	Maintenance patch: merge-pipeline trust repair and a security-queue drain. See CHANGELOG.

Full history: CHANGELOG.md or all GitHub Releases.

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The Big Idea

Stop prompt-fumbling. Start shipping. Every time you ask an AI to help with product management, you start from zero. Generic responses. Inconsistent formats. Missing critical sections. Hours lost to repetitive prompt crafting.

PM-Skills gives your AI instant access to professional frameworks refined across hundreds of product launches, production-ready templates that capture institutional PM knowledge, and real-world examples that set the quality bar.

Without PM-Skills	With PM-Skills
⚠️ Generic AI responses	✅ Professional PM frameworks
⚠️ Inconsistent formats	✅ Production-ready templates
⚠️ Missing key sections	✅ Comprehensive coverage
⚠️ Starting from scratch	✅ Building on best practices
⚠️ Prompt engineering every time	✅ One command, instant results

Who Is This For

You are...	PM-Skills gives you...
A solo PM using AI for the first time	A starting point that skips prompt engineering and produces professional output immediately
A team lead standardizing PM output	Shared skill library your whole team invokes the same way, producing consistent artifacts
An AI/PM builder creating PM tools	Open-source, Apache 2.0 library of production-quality PM artifacts to build on

Key Features

• ✅ 68 Production-Ready Skills covering the complete product lifecycle (30 phase skills + 11 foundation skills + 12 utility skills + 15 tool skills for structured workshop methodologies)
• ✅ Triple Diamond Framework organizing Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver, Measure, and Iterate phases
• ✅ Tool Families for the Foundation Sprint (2-day strategic alignment) and Design Sprint (5-day prototype-and-test) workshop methodologies
• ✅ 5 Active Orchestration Sub-Agents (pm-critic, pm-skill-auditor, pm-changelog-curator, pm-release-conductor, pm-workflow-orchestrator) for Claude Code, with dispatch skills extending the pattern to Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, and Gemini CLI