🧠 PM Skills — 1176 Professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex & Hermes

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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 is a very confident intern. PM Skills is the senior colleague's notes — 1176 of them, one markdown file each, for the moments at work and in life where "it depends" is not an answer. (PM stands for Professional, not just Product Management. Yes, we get asked.)

PM Skills is an open-source library of 1176 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.

1176 skills

134 bundles

35 professions

12 platforms

4.8 / 5 eval-scored

0 runtime · telemetry · accounts

MIT forever

🧭 How it works

	Step	Example
01	Say what you need, in your own words	"My landlord is keeping my deposit."
02	Your assistant loads the one skill that matches	security-deposit-recovery, a single markdown file, read only when it is relevant
03	You get the finished document, not advice about it	The challenge to each deduction, the demand letter, and the point at which small claims is worth it

🚪 Pick a door — 30 seconds each

	You…	Do this
▶	just want to see it	open the Playground and run a skill in your browser. No install, no signup, no "enter your email to continue"
🧠	use Claude Code	/plugin → search pm-skills → install. Ask "decode this lease" and watch
🛠	use anything else	npx pm-claude-skills add and pick your tool (Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, ChatGPT, Gemini…)
🔎	don't know what to ask for	type it at find — "my landlord kept my deposit" — and it names the skill
🎒	are in the middle of something	start from your moment, not the catalogue → Skill Packs · 🍼 new parent · 💼 laid off · 🌍 new country · 👵 caring for a parent · 🕊️ losing someone · 💸 money in crisis

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 written for humans too.

✅ PM Skills is right for you if

• ✅ You keep retyping the same long prompt and get a different answer each time
• ✅ You want the finished document (a PRD, a demand letter, a postmortem), not an essay on how to write one
• ✅ You use more than one assistant and want the same skills in all of them
• ✅ You want to read exactly what your assistant was told before you trust the result
• ✅ You are dealing with something outside your field: a lease, a medical bill, a layoff
• ✅ You want nothing to host, no account, and no telemetry unless you switch it on

🥊 Without a skill vs. with one

You say	Generic AI	With the skill
"help me with my lease"	600 words on the importance of reading leases carefully	🔴 clause 14 auto-renews you into a full year · 🟡 deposit terms written to fail · the two sentences to send back — lease-decoder
"write the PRD"	a template with [insert goal here] in it	problem, users, requirements, metrics, the open questions — scored 0–40 against its own rubric before you see it — prd-template
"should we ship Friday?"	"There are several factors to consider…"	ship 0.18 · ship_reduced 0.71 · slip 0.11 — and the one fact that would flip it — ship-or-slip
"practice my salary negotiation"	"Great question! Confidence is key."	a hiring manager who pushes back, then an out-of-character debrief on what you gave away — salary-negotiation

✨ See it in action

_{▶ Pick a skill → fill a short form → run it → a senior-grade artifact streams out. Your key stays in your browser, or run free with no key.}

🌌 Galaxy 3D — all 1176 skills as a constellation. The ones you've run burn brighter. Zero productivity value, 100% recommended.

🎁 Wrapped — your practice as a shareable story. 100% local; nobody learns you ran saying-no-kindly eleven times.

🆕 What's new

Release	What it adds	Try saying	Read more
v80.2.0 trust in a release	The MCP install command fixed, a check that every release installs and runs, announcements in doctor and the playground, and frozen versions of the flagship skills that a team can pin	"Run the doctor."	CHANGELOG.md · skill releases
v80.1.0 design taste	A five-stage UI pipeline (direction, system, motion, critique, verification) that stops generic AI-looking interfaces, with pointers to five specialist design skills	"Run the design pipeline on this landing page."	pm-design-taste · credits
v80.0.0 the promote loop	Scans your own transcripts for what you keep asking, drafts it as a skill, tests the triggers, publishes it	"What do I keep asking you for?"	PROMOTE-LOOP.md
v79.0.0 the decision layer	Typed questions with a probability per option: which skill, is this input safe, ship or slip	"Should we ship Friday?"	JEV-DECISION-LAYER.md

The full write-up of the three feature releases, with examples: docs/WHATS-NEW.md. Everything older: CHANGELOG.md.

💬 What can I ask it to do?

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	🚢 "ship Friday or slip a week?" → ship-or-slip	♻️ "what do I keep asking you for?" → promoter-scan

…all 1176 live in the catalog.

⚡ Quick start

You want to…	Do this
Browse	SKILLS.md · the searchable web catalog
Install in Claude Code	/plugin → search pm-skills (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 from exports/chatgpt/ or exports/gemini/ and paste as instructions
Skills over MCP, in any session	claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp
Route a prompt to a skill	npm run route -- "board meeting on Thursday"

No npm install needed — npx pm-claude-skills … always runs the latest. Per-tool instructions: docs/installation.md.

📚 The skills

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 1176 pass the SkillSpec L3 gate and a security audit in CI.

Decoders	Simulators	Calculators	Live data	Cowork	Tokens	Seatbelt	Essentials

Browse all 1176 → · try one in your browser → · 134 bundles →

Every category, with examples

For everyone — life's paperwork and decisions

Family	What it does	Examples (of many)
🔍 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
📑 Investing literacy (5) 🆕	Read a company's accounts before you believe its highlights — every figure page-referenced; educational, not financial advice	annual-report-tutor · audited-boundary-check · profit-to-cash-walk · company-compare-same-definitions · investing-vocabulary-explainer
🤝 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)

For professionals — 35 fields

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/ (134 bundles). Install any bundle: /plugin install pm-decoders@pm-skills.

Meta

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.

💭 pm-thinking — think better For when the model is too correct and gives you the average answer: the-third-answer — skip the obvious, find the idea worth having five-minds — one question, five clashing minds, then converge decision-panel — your call, judged by five advisors red-team-my-plan — attack it before reality does

🎯 pm-focus — get unstuck ADHD-friendly executive function, useful for every brain: where-do-i-start — chaos → one next action task-to-first-step — beat activation-energy paralysis overwhelm-triage — everything urgent → a calm short list should-i-send-this — catch the message you'd regret

🔍 What does a skill look like?

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 audit it, edit it, or write your own.

✅ Quality, not just quantity

Structure	every skill passes the SkillSpec L3 gate — framework, quality checks, anti-patterns — on every commit
Evidence	eval-scored: 208 outputs, avg 4.8/5, judged blind. The benchmark report publishes the negative findings too
Trust	risk tiers on every skill · an expert-review program with a harm-ranked queue · a vendor-neutrality gate · a security audit in CI
Honesty	decoders end with a not-advice line, calculators name what they don't model, simulators debrief out of character, and skills that shouldn't ghostwrite (your kid's college essay) coach instead

🎁 Beyond the skills

Explore	📄 one-page cheatsheet · 📸 gallery · 🏛 anti-pattern museum (2,900+ rules) · 📖 the handbook (also a printed book) · 🎯 skill router
Run	workflow recipes · journeys (a pack as one guided session) · subagents & slash commands · MCP server + REST API · n8n / Slack / Obsidian · the Boardroom
Save	pm-tokens — 30–60% off a session's token flow, stdlib Python, nothing leaves your machine (how-to, 🪙 dashboard) · npx pm-claude-skills mcp-audit — what your MCP servers charge you in rent
Prove	npx pm-claude-skills prove --skill ./my-skill --tasks tasks.txt — paired A/B with real token counts and a sha-pinned receipt, because "65% better!" is not a measurement · SkillBench · route-bench
Work	pm-cowork (100 skills for office knowledge work) · pm-seatbelt (agent safety pre-flight) · Org Edition · 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 translations · offline bundle

Lint your own skills in CI

- uses: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills@v79
  with:
    path: .claude/skills   # optional — it finds them otherwise

Checks frontmatter, the Use when … trigger clause a model actually matches on, leftover template text, and structure — and annotates each finding inline on the PR diff. Also npx pm-claude-skills skillcheck. Zero dependencies, no model call.

Companion tools for the bits a skill shouldn't guess — both MIT, zero-dependency, no model call: notugly (contrast and design-system checks the design skills call instead of estimating) and rulebook (37 games, 203 rulings, for the board-game skills).

🚫 What PM Skills is not

Not an agent framework.	Skills are instructions your existing assistant reads. There is no runtime to host.
Not a prompt pack.	Every skill has required inputs, an output format, quality checks and anti-patterns, and is gated in CI.
Not only for product managers.	PM stands for Professional. Most of the library is life admin and 35 professions.
Not a substitute for a professional.	The legal, medical and financial skills prepare you for that conversation. They do not replace it.
Not tied to one vendor.	The same skill exports to 12 platforms and is served over MCP.
Not a hosted service.	The playground and the MCP endpoint are optional. Everything works from files on your machine.

❓ Straight answers

Is it actually free? Yes — MIT, all 1176 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. The playground serves a few sponsor-funded free runs a day. A key only matters for optional extras: running skills from CI, or the typed decision layer (which falls back to keyword routing without one). The catalog says 1176 but the folder has more. Which is it? Both. There are 1188 directories under skills/; 12 of them are deprecated (marked in their frontmatter, each pointing at the skill that replaced it). They stay on disk so an old install command or a bookmarked name never breaks, and they are hidden from the catalog, the playground and the headline count. 1176 is what a person can browse; 1178 is what an installer can resolve. 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. 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 is machine-translated or unscored, it's labelled.

🗺️ Roadmap

• ✅ Exports to 12 platforms and one install command
• ✅ MCP server, subagents and slash commands
• ✅ Quality gates in CI: structure, security, duplicates, drift
• ✅ The decision layer and the promote loop
• ✅ The design taste pipeline
• ⚪ Published eval scores for more skills
• ⚪ A promotion round for the Production-Ready tier
• ⚪ Merging the near-duplicate skills still marked as pending
• ⚪ Translated skill descriptions, done at scale or retired

Direction, not a contract. Details and good first issues: ROADMAP.md.

🔒 Privacy and telemetry

Off by default. A skill is a text file and sends nothing.

What	Default	Detail
Skills, CLI, exports	Nothing is sent	Plain files on your machine
Usage counter	Off	Opt in with PM_SKILLS_TELEMETRY=1. It sends the skill name and nothing else
Playground and hosted MCP	Only if you use them	Your prompt goes to the model provider you choose

The full statement, including the handler you can read: docs/TELEMETRY.md and SECURITY.md.

🤝 Contributing

Add a skill via PR (the standard, CONTRIBUTING), request one via issue, or publish your own repo to the community index. Translations follow skills-i18n/.

❤️ Support

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. Organisations: a clearly-disclosed logo and link only, never product integration — email me.

📄 License

MIT — use them, fork them, ship them at work. Skills are judgment, and judgment wants to be free.

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*Built by Mohit with Claude. 1176 skills · 134 bundles · 35 professions · every commit gated. The long version — every feature, wave, and frontier bet — lives in the Showcase.*