Your landlord kept your deposit. Your mom got a medical bill that makes no sense. You got laid off on a Tuesday. Someone you love died, and no one handed you the checklist.
Generic AI gives you filler for the moments that matter most. PM Skills gives your AI the exact framework a senior professional would use — for 1,117 real tasks, across work and life.
👉 Start with your moment, not the catalogue → Skill Packs
🍼 New parent · 💼 Just laid off · 🌍 New to this country · 👵 Caring for a parent · 🕊️ Losing someone · 💸 Money in crisis · 🔑 Starting over · 🤖 Getting serious about AI
PM Skills is an open-source library of 1153 Agent Skills — plain-markdown SKILL.md files that teach an AI assistant to do one professional task to a senior professional's standard, from writing a PRD to decoding a lease or running a blameless postmortem. Each skill bundles the framework, an output template, quality checks, and anti-patterns. It is MIT-licensed and works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and Codex.
Decode a lease before you sign it. Write a PRD your team can execute. Simulate the promotion committee before the real one meets. Check the weather with zero API keys. Generic AI gives you filler; these give you the structure a senior professional actually uses.
Works natively in Claude Code and Hermes Agent, with ready-to-paste exports for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex and 8 more tools. (PM stands for Professional, not just Product Management.)
- Just looking → open the ▶ Playground and run a skill in your browser. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
- You use Claude Code → type
/plugin, search pm-skills, install. Done — ask "decode this lease" and watch. - You use anything else →
npx pm-claude-skills addand pick your tool from the menu (Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, ChatGPT, Gemini…). - Want the guided tour → browse the searchable catalogue site and subscribe to get an email whenever new skills launch.
Nothing here can scare your setup. A skill is a markdown file your AI reads — no runtime, no telemetry, no accounts. Installing copies text files; uninstalling is deleting them. Skeptical? Good instinct: read one first — it's designed to be read by humans too.
Don't know what to look for? Describe your task in plain words at 🔎 find — "my landlord kept my deposit", "board meeting on Thursday" — and it names the skill.
Never miss a new skill. New ones drop regularly — subscribe to the newsletter and get a short email with a real example whenever they launch. No spam, unsubscribe anytime. Prefer no email? Follow via RSS or browse the newsletter archive.
Most skills here answer "do this task." A new family answers "think differently about my life."
LLMs have one big weakness: they're too correct. On open-ended questions they give the safe, average, textbook answer — technically right and completely forgettable. Two new bundles fight that head-on (inspired by parallel-divergent-ideation research):
💭 pm-thinking — think betterEscape the generic answer and stress-test your own decisions:
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🎯 pm-focus — get unstuckADHD-friendly executive function (useful for everyone):
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It's not just a folder of files — the whole library is explorable, runnable, and a little bit magic. All of this runs in your browser, free, nothing to install:
▶ Pick a skill → fill a short form → run it → a senior-grade artifact streams out. No install, your key stays in your browser (or run free with no key).
🌌 Galaxy 3D — fly through all 1153 skills as a living constellation. The ones you've run burn brighter. |
🎁 Wrapped — your practice, as a shareable story. 100% local — nothing leaves your browser. |
▶ Open the Playground to run any of the 1153 skills with your own key — or just browse them all.
Anything below is a real ask that activates a real skill — say it in your own words, the description does the routing:
| 🏠 "decode this lease before I sign" → lease-decoder | 📋 "write the PRD for our referral feature" → prd-template | 🚨 "blameless postmortem for Friday's outage" → incident-postmortem |
| 💰 "practice my salary negotiation" → salary-negotiation | 📉 "why is churn up this quarter?" → churn-analysis | ⚖️ "rank the backlog with RICE" → rice-prioritisation |
| 🛂 "prep me for the visa interview" → the-visa-interview | 🔨 "is this contractor quote fair?" → home-contractor-quote-decoder | 🏡 "should we rent or buy?" → rent-vs-buy |
| 📝 "draft my self-review honestly" → performance-review | 🚀 "are we ready to launch?" → product-launch-checklist | 📬 "my inbox is 4,000 deep" → email-triage-system |
…all 1153 asks live in the catalog.
| You want to… | Do this |
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| Browse the skills | SKILLS.md — the full catalog · or the searchable web catalog |
| Install in Claude Code | /plugin → search pm-skills (it's in the official Anthropic directory) — or npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude |
| Install in Cursor / Codex / Windsurf / Cline… | npx pm-claude-skills add --agent cursor (or codex, windsurf, aider, cline, zed…) |
| Use one skill in ChatGPT / Gemini | Copy it from exports/chatgpt/ or exports/gemini/ and paste as instructions |
| Skills over MCP, in any session | claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp |
No npm install needed — npx pm-claude-skills … always runs the latest. npx pm-claude-skills list shows everything in your terminal. Full per-tool instructions: docs/installation.md.
Every skill follows the same discipline: what it produces, the inputs it needs, a real framework (severity scales, decision rules — not vibes), a concrete output template, quality checks, and anti-patterns. All 1153 pass the SkillSpec L3 gate and a security audit in CI.
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Browse all 1,099 → · try one in your browser →
Every category, with examples
| Family | What it does | Examples (of many) |
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| 🔍 Decoders (25+) | Read the document before you sign it — plain language, 🔴🟡🟢 severity, the money math | lease · medical bill · job offer · severance · insurance policy · contractor quote · timeshare |
| 🎭 Simulators | Face the adversary early — the real meeting, then an out-of-character debrief | salary negotiation · promotion committee · thesis defense · visa interview · due-diligence call |
| 🧮 Calculators | Deterministic Python scripts + honest models — assumptions labeled, no false precision | rent vs buy · FIRE number · debt payoff · raise vs jump · daycare vs stay-home |
| 📡 Live data (17) | Real-time answers with zero API keys — weather, rates, flights, scores, all over plain curl | weather · currency · crypto · flights · earthquakes · is-it-down |
| 🏠 Life admin | The unglamorous logistics, done in order | relocation · new parent · caregiving · doctor visits · records requests |
| 💼 Career moments | The weeks that decide years | layoff kit · resignation kit · PIP response · first 90 days as manager · interview gauntlet |
| 🏛 Dead mentors (5) 🆕 | History's sharpest operators, resurrected — the real methods from public-domain classics, applied to modern work | Machiavelli on office politics · Sun Tzu on picking your fights · Franklin's decision algebra · Marcus Aurelius on bad days · Bennett's 1908 time audit |
| 🏛 Life systems (20) 🆕 | Navigating the bureaucracies and emergencies people face alone — civic, disability, immigration, disaster | voting-navigator · disability-benefit-appeal · arrival-setup · credential-recognition · go-bag-builder · after-the-disaster |
| 🧠 Human edges (20) 🆕 | The parts of life nobody built tools for — neurodivergence, invisible illness, grief, identity, the hard conversations | masking-budget · spoon-planner · diagnosis-limbo-kit · coming-out-rehearsal · grief-admin · rabbit-hole-rescue |
| ⚡ New-gen (10) 🆕 | How the next generation lives and earns — creator deals, clips, D&D, ranked, resale, the attention war | creator-deal-decoder · clip-factory · ttrpg-session-forge · the-vibe-check · ranked-climb-coach · attention-reset |
| 🔮 2027 (10) 🆕 | Problems you don't have yet, but will — the agent era's operational skills | agent-severance · deepfake-drill · agent-hiring-panel · context-bankruptcy · clone-brief · api-for-yourself · the-org-simulator |
| 🎲 Tabletop (5) 🆕 | Game night, upgraded — teach, judge, plan, design, and practice the trades | teach-the-game · rules-lawyer · game-night-planner · board-game-designer · tabletop-negotiator |
| 🧾 Freelance & renters & parents | Small bundles for specific lives | pricing your services · late invoices · deposit recovery · IEP meetings · students |
| 🎲 Hobbies (12) 🆕 | Life outside work — the genuinely fun stuff | wine pairing · houseplant care · board-game night · D&D campaign · stargazing · chess openings |
| 💪 Wellbeing (12) 🆕 | Body and mind, sustainably — not another app streak | home workout · sleep reset · habit builder · posture reset · screen-time detox |
| 🔐 Digital self-defense (12) 🆕 | When your digital life is under attack | identity-theft recovery · phishing triage · account recovery · data-broker removal · doxxing response |
| 👪 Family & relationships (12) 🆕 | The people who matter | new-baby logistics · wedding vows · co-parenting messages · condolences · in-law boundaries |
| 💭 Thinking modes (24) 🆕 | Change how your AI reasons — escape the generic answer, stress-test decisions | the-third-answer · five-minds · decision-panel · red-team-my-plan · devils-advocate · poke-holes-in-this |
| 🎯 Focus & executive function (26) 🆕 | Get unstuck and run your own brain — ADHD-friendly, for everyone | where-do-i-start · task-to-first-step · overwhelm-triage · the-one-thing · build-my-memory-file · weekly-unstuck |
| 📖 Learning & mastery (10) 🆕 | Learn anything faster and make it stick | learn-anything-roadmap · feynman-explainer · spaced-repetition-setup · skill-plateau-breaker · deliberate-practice-plan |
| 💰 Wealth-building (10) 🆕 | Build wealth on purpose — educational, not financial advice | investing-for-beginners · index-fund-starter · ask-for-a-raise · first-100k-plan · financial-independence-roadmap |
| 🤝 Social & relationships (10) 🆕 | The hard conversations and the human ones | make-friends-as-an-adult · networking-for-introverts · boundary-setting-scripts · give-hard-feedback-kindly · repair-after-a-fight |
| 🩺 Caregiving & aging (10) 🆕 | Care for aging parents and navigate the system — not medical/legal advice | medical-appointment-advocate · care-team-coordinator · caregiver-burnout-check · long-term-care-options · end-of-life-wishes-conversation |
| 🤖 AI-native life (10) 🆕 | Use AI itself well — the meta-skills that make every tool better | prompt-library-builder · delegate-to-ai · ai-context-primer · spot-ai-mistakes · get-more-from-ai |
| 🤝 Cowork (100) | The office knowledge work an AI coworker actually does — the frameworks — the whole bundle | email triage · spreadsheet audit · meeting cost meter · deck outline first · saying no kindly · delegation brief |
| ⚡ Cowork · Live (12) | The same jobs, done — Claude Cowork acts on your real data via connectors + sandbox and returns an artifact — the whole bundle | inbox triage (live) · meeting prep (live) · spreadsheet audit (live) · deck from doc · thread → decision · PR description (live) |
 Product Management |
 Engineering |
 Marketing & GTM |
 Customer Success |
 Data & Analytics |
 Leadership & People |
 Design & UX |
 Legal |
 Finance |
 Founders |
 Security |
 Government |
…plus HR, sales, operations, research, healthcare, educators, writers, social media, and more — the full profession index, or by bundle in plugins/ (130 bundles). Install any bundle: /plugin install pm-decoders@pm-skills.
Before installing anyone's skills (including these): skill-vetting — a security read for SKILL.md files. The library's own standard lives in SKILLSPEC.md; every skill's level is enforced in CI.
A skill is a single markdown file with a name, a description that tells the assistant when to activate it, and a body containing the working framework: required inputs, decision rules or severity scales, a concrete output template, quality checks, and anti-patterns. The assistant reads it and gains the judgment; humans can read, audit, and edit the same file. No runtime, no lock-in.
---
name: lease-decoder
description: "Decode a residential lease into plain English and rank the
clauses that can hurt you. Use when someone asks 'what am I signing'…"
---
## Framework: Severity Scale
- 🔴 Can cost you real money — auto-renewal into a full new term, break
penalties beyond re-rental costs, deposit conditions written to fail…That's the whole trick: it's markdown. Your agent reads it and gains the judgment; you can read it too, audit it, edit it, or write your own. No lock-in, no runtime, no telemetry.
The pm-tokens bundle optimizes every stage of your agent's token journey — no API keys, stdlib Python, nothing leaves your machine. Five habits, typically 30–60% off a session's token flow:
# 1. Map the repo instead of reading it (~3% of the cost of reading everything)
python3 skills/repo-map/scripts/repo_map.py .
# 2. Crush bulk before it enters context (98% smaller on uniform JSON; errors always survive)
python3 skills/context-crusher/scripts/context_crush.py --mode json --file response.json
# 3. Measure what anything costs — at YOUR prices, times YOUR call volume
python3 skills/token-cost/scripts/token_cost.py --file CLAUDE.md --price-in 3 --calls 200Plus the judgment skills: token-diet (output costs 3–5× input — diet it where safe), context-budget (cache-aware layout: stable first, volatile last), and session-handoff (resume at ~5% of transcript size). See your own breakdown in the 🪙 Token Dashboard — paste what rides in your context, get computed per-piece savings, all in-browser. The full how-to: docs/SAVE-TOKENS.md.
The pm-cowork bundle is 100 skills for the office work an AI coworker actually does. Install it (/plugin install pm-cowork@pm-skills), then — the whole trick — describe your mess, don't name the skill: say "my inbox is 4,000 deep", "nobody reads my status updates", "this spreadsheet came from someone who left" — the right skill activates on the ask.
Start where it hurts:
| Your pain | Say this | The skill that answers |
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| Drowning in email | "triage my inbox and cut the volume at the source" | email-triage-system → inbox-unsubscribe-purge |
| Calendar is all meetings | "audit my recurring meetings and price them" | standing-meeting-audit + meeting-cost-meter |
| Inherited a scary spreadsheet | "audit this sheet before we trust it" | spreadsheet-audit → formula-detangler |
| Docs get rewritten in review | "outline first, get sign-off, then draft" | outline-before-prose |
| Weeks just happen to you | "set up my weekly review" | weekly-review-ritual — the hub the others plug into |
Three habits that compound: (1) The weekly review is the keystone — it feeds task-triage-matrix, deep-work-blocking, and personal-wip-limits automatically. (2) The skills chain on purpose — email-to-tasks feeds the task triage; the meeting audit feeds async-instead; delegation-brief hands off what the triage says to shed — follow the links inside each skill. (3) Teams adopt one norm at a time — start with agenda-or-cancel or working-agreements, let it stick, then add the next; the ten-norms-on-Monday rollout is how none of them survive.
Two CLI tools for the trust-and-cost problems the ecosystem keeps hand-waving — both keyless-to-inspect, both one command:
# Does your skill actually work? Prove it. Paired A/B — skill on vs off, same tasks,
# REAL token counts from the API's usage fields, optional blind judge, sha-pinned receipt.
npx pm-claude-skills prove --skill ./my-skill --tasks tasks.txt --runs 2 --judge
npx pm-claude-skills prove --skill ./my-skill --tasks tasks.txt --dry-run # plan + call count, spends nothing
# Your MCP servers are charging you rent. Measure it: per-server token cost,
# unused-in-N-days flags, "disconnect these three, save X tokens per message".
npx pm-claude-skills mcp-audit --connectprove exists because the ecosystem is full of "65% better!" claims and almost none are measured — it's the honest-broker harness (the JetBrains "advertised 65%, measured 8.5%" story is exactly why). mcp-audit reads your Claude configs, speaks real MCP to each server to count its schema tokens, and scans your session logs for what you actually use. See also the 📊 AI Spend page — every agent's cost (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot) in one meter, all in-browser.
Agent safety: the pm-seatbelt bundle is the pre-flight checklist before an agent touches email, the browser, or files — least-privilege reviews, prompt-injection spotting, and the blast-radius drill for going autonomous. And RFC 0002 — HANDOFF.md is a dead-simple session-handoff convention (your agent, but it remembers Monday) — a file, not a server, with reference hooks.
- Every skill passes the SkillSpec L3 gate — structure, framework, quality checks, anti-patterns — enforced in CI on every commit
- Eval-scored — 208 scored outputs, avg 4.8/5, judged blind
- Security-audited — a dedicated CI workflow sweeps every skill and script; calculators are stdlib-only and deterministic with byte-exact output tests
- Honest by design — decoders end with a not-legal-advice line, calculators name what they don't model, simulators debrief out of character, and skills that shouldn't ghostwrite (student statements) coach instead
The library grew an ecosystem — all optional, all linked from the full showcase:
📄 The one-page cheatsheet — the whole library on one printable poster · ▶ Skill Playground — try any skill in your browser, no install · 📸 the Gallery — the creative side, in screenshots · Anti-Pattern Museum — 2,900+ shareable rules · The Handbook (also a real printed book) · Workflow recipes · Subagents & slash commands · MCP server + REST API · n8n / Slack / Obsidian integrations · The Boardroom · SkillBench · Org Edition · 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 translations
The validator that keeps these 1,099 honest, as a GitHub Action:
- uses: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills@v76
with:
path: .claude/skills # optional — it finds them otherwiseIt checks frontmatter, the Use when … trigger clause a model actually matches
on, leftover template text, and structure — and annotates each finding inline
on the pull request diff, because a finding on the line beats a finding in a
log nobody opens. Also available as npx pm-claude-skills skillcheck.
Zero dependencies, no Docker image, no model call.
A skill can tell a model to check the contrast. Only arithmetic can actually check it. Where a question has a right answer rather than a good one, the skill calls out to a tool instead of estimating — both are MIT, zero-dependency, and neither makes a model call, so they cost nothing to run and return the same answer every time.
notugly — design systems that are
provably not ugly. #777777 on white is 4.478 and fails AA; #767676 is 4.542
and passes, and no amount of looking at a screenshot separates those.
accessibility-audit, design-system-audit, design-handoff-brief,
brand-guidelines and the Figma reviews now fill their contrast rows from
npx notugly; the MCP server exposes check_contrast directly; and
design-system-generate wraps it for the case
where there is no design system and something ships on Thursday.
rulebook — 37 games, 203
rulings, and how commonly each house rule is actually played.
board-game-night-planner uses it for teach
times and for settling the argument, because a rules disagreement is usually two
groups who learned it differently and are both partly right.
v76.2.1 — SkillCheck as a GitHub Action, and the design skills now compute their contrast numbers instead of estimating them.
Everything else is in the changelog and the releases — a README should say what this is, not what it was.
Is it actually free?
Yes — MIT, all 1153 skills, forever. The skills are markdown; there is nothing to gate. Sponsors fund the playground's free model runs, not access.Do I need an API key?
Not to browse, read, install, or use skills inside a tool you already have (Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor…). The playground even serves a few sponsor-funded free runs a day. A key only enters the picture for optional extras like running skills from CI.I'm not a product manager. Is this for me?
PM stands for Professional here. Most of the library is decoders for leases and medical bills, salary-negotiation practice, career-moment kits, life admin, and 35 professions from teaching to veterinary. The product-management corner is just where it started.Will this mess with my existing setup?
No. Skills are inert text files in a folder; your assistant reads them when relevant. Remove the folder and it's like they were never there. The CLI never touches anything outside the skills directory it tells you about.How do I know these are any good?
Every skill passes a structural gate (SkillSpec L3) and a security scan in CI; 208 outputs are eval-scored in the open (avg 4.8/5), and the benchmark report publishes the negative findings too. When something's machine-translated or unscored, it's labelled.
Add a skill via PR (the standard, CONTRIBUTING), request one via issue, or publish your own repo to the community index and earn the badge. Translations follow the pattern in skills-i18n/.
If a skill saved you real money or a real mistake, star the repo — it's how others find it. Sponsors fund the playground's free runs and get naming rights, not influence: become a sponsor.
Individuals sponsor via GitHub Sponsors. Organisations interested in a sponsored logo + link: email me about a clearly-disclosed placement in this section — that's the whole arrangement: a logo and link only, never product integration or a product endorsement. I keep full editorial independence and may decline any sponsor whose product conflicts with users' interests.
MIT — use them, fork them, ship them at work. Skills are judgment, and judgment wants to be free.
Built by Mohit with Claude. 1153 skills · 130 bundles · 35 professions · every commit gated. The long version of this README — every feature, wave, and frontier bet — lives in the Showcase.