Quickstart

What’s Included

68 shipped PM skills in skills/ (30 phase skills across 6 phases, 11 foundation skills, 12 utility skills, 15 tool skills)
11 slash-command docs in commands/ (10 /workflow-* orchestrator commands + the /chain command)
12 Workflows for multi-skill processes (Triple Diamond, Lean Startup, Feature Kickoff, and 9 more)

Installation

Claude Code (recommended)

Install from the plugin marketplace, no clone required:

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

All 68 skills are available immediately. Invoke any by name, for example /pm-skills:deliver-prd. Already on the old pm-skills-marketplace? It keeps working; see Setup by Platform to switch homes.

Cross-agent (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cline, and others)

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

Installs all 68 skills into your agent’s default skills directory via the open skills CLI. No clone, no sync.

Claude.ai / Claude Desktop

Go to Settings > Capabilities (Desktop) or Project Settings > Add Files (Claude.ai)
Upload the latest release ZIP (pm-skills-vX.X.X.zip) from Releases
Skills are now available in your conversations

Clone or download (everything included)

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

Or download and extract the latest ZIP from Releases. Point any other agent to AGENTS.md for skill discovery; each skill is self-contained in skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md (for example skills/deliver-prd/SKILL.md).

More detail: see the full getting-started guide for the long-form walkthrough.

Verify It Worked

Confirm the install landed before you start building:

Claude Code: run /plugin list to confirm pm-skills is installed, then invoke /pm-skills:deliver-prd "test feature" and expect a complete PRD artifact back.
Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: ask “Use the prd skill to create requirements for a test feature” and expect a complete PRD artifact back.
Other AI agents (Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and similar): ask “Use the hypothesis skill to test my assumption about checkout abandonment” and expect a structured hypothesis artifact back.

If you get a generic response instead of a structured artifact, the agent has not discovered the skill; see Setup by Platform for troubleshooting.

Usage

Slash Commands

/pm-skills:deliver-prd "Feature description"
/pm-skills:define-hypothesis "Assumption to test"
/pm-skills:deliver-acceptance-criteria "Story or feature slice"
/pm-skills:deliver-user-stories "PRD or feature context"
/pm-skills:discover-competitive-analysis "Market or product area"

See AGENTS.md for the complete command list.

Workflows

Run multi-skill workflows:

/workflow-feature-kickoff "Feature name"  # Problem → Hypothesis → PRD → Stories

Workflow definitions are in _workflows/.

Skill Lifecycle Tools

Three utility skills manage the skill library itself:

flowchart LR
    Create["utility-pm-skill-builder\nCreate"] --> Validate["utility-pm-skill-validate\nValidate"]
    Validate -- "PASS" --> Ship["Ship"]
    Validate -- "Findings" --> Iterate["utility-pm-skill-iterate\nIterate"]
    Iterate --> Validate

See the pm-skill-lifecycle guide for detailed workflow patterns.

File Structure

skills/            # All 68 skill definitions (30 phase + 11 foundation + 12 utility + 15 tool, flat)
commands/          # 11 command markdown files (10 workflow + /chain)
_workflows/        # Multi-skill workflows
scripts/           # sync, validation, and release helpers
.claude/pm-skills-for-claude.md  # instructions for Claude Code users
AGENTS.md          # Agent discovery index

For Claude Code discovery, run ./scripts/sync-claude.sh (or .ps1) to populate .claude/skills and .claude/commands from the flat source.

Learn More

Full documentation: pm-skills docs home
Skill specification: https://agentskills.io/specification

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