Release v2.10.0
Status: Final Date: 2026-04-11
Highlights
- 3 new utility skills: mermaid diagrams, slideshow creation, self-updater
- Self-updater lets users check for and apply pm-skills updates from a single command
- MCP server decoupled from release cycle (frozen until team adoption warrants it)
- Codex cross-LLM review validated release plan and feature design
Note: F-16 (mermaid-diagrams) and F-19 (slideshow-creator) content has been available since v2.9.1 but is formally released and documented with v2.10.0 as the utility skill expansion release.
New Skills
utility-mermaid-diagrams (F-16)
Teaching PMs to create syntactically valid mermaid diagrams. 15 diagram types with dual-lens navigation (type catalog + PM use-case guide), dedicated syntax validity reference, planning worksheet, and worked examples.
Invoke: /mermaid-diagrams "diagram description"
utility-slideshow-creator (F-19)
Generate professional presentations (.pptx and PDF) from JSON deck specifications. 18 slide types with dark/light variants, content-to-layout decision logic, calibrated character limits, Google Slides compatibility.
Invoke: /slideshow-creator "presentation brief"
utility-update-pm-skills (F-24)
Check for updates, preview changes, and update your local pm-skills installation. Three modes:
| Mode | Command | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Status check | /update-pm-skills --status | Quick version comparison |
| Preview | /update-pm-skills --report-only | See what would change without writing files |
| Full update | /update-pm-skills | Download, confirm, backup, update, report |
Key features:
- Validated-before-copy safety (downloads to temp, validates, then copies)
- Optional backup before overwriting (
_pm-skills/backups/) - Value-delta reports showing what’s new and what it enables
- Post-update smoke test (version consistency, file integrity, skill count)
- Degraded mode with manual instructions when offline
- FAQ for common questions
Guide: Updating PM Skills
Changed
- Repo now ships 32 skills (25 phase + 1 foundation + 6 utility), 39 commands, and 10 workflows
_pm-skills/directory convention added to.gitignore(local state for update reports and backups)- MCP server decoupled from release cycle (M-22) . pm-skills-mcp is frozen and no longer a release prerequisite
Sample Library
7 new sample outputs added for skills that were missing from the sample library. All use the storevine thread (Campaigns feature):
- deliver-acceptance-criteria . Given/When/Then ACs for the email template builder
- utility-mermaid-diagrams . flowchart planning worksheet for campaign send approval
- utility-slideshow-creator . JSON deck spec for a campaigns launch presentation
- utility-pm-skill-builder . skill implementation packet for a fictional campaign-analytics skill
- utility-pm-skill-validate . validation report with 2 findings
- utility-pm-skill-iterate . iteration applying the validation findings
- utility-update-pm-skills . update completion report (v2.9.1 → v2.10.0)
Sample library: 84 → 91 samples, now covering all 32 skills.
Generated docs/skills/ pages for all 3 new utility skills (mermaid-diagrams,
slideshow-creator, update-pm-skills).
Infrastructure
- Codex cross-LLM review completed: 1 Blocker, 12 Major, 11 Minor findings . all resolved before release
- v2.9.1 shipped as a prerequisite (workflows guide, count consistency CI)
Skill Inventory
| Phase | Count | Skills |
|---|---|---|
| Discover | 4 | interview-synthesis, competitive-analysis, stakeholder-summary, market-sizing (planned) |
| Define | 4 | problem-statement, hypothesis, jtbd-canvas, opportunity-tree |
| Develop | 4 | solution-brief, spike-summary, adr, design-rationale |
| Deliver | 6 | prd, user-stories, acceptance-criteria, edge-cases, release-notes, launch-checklist |
| Measure | 5 | experiment-design, experiment-results, dashboard-requirements, instrumentation-spec, survey-analysis (planned) |
| Iterate | 4 | retrospective, lessons-log, refinement-notes, pivot-decision |
| Foundation | 1 | persona |
| Utility | 6 | pm-skill-builder, pm-skill-validate, pm-skill-iterate, mermaid-diagrams, slideshow-creator, update-pm-skills |
| Total | 32 |