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Release v2.11.0. Meeting Skills Family + Lean Canvas

Released: 2026-04-18 Type: Feature release (minor) Skill count: 32 → 38 (+6) Key theme: Foundation-phase expansion + first cross-cutting skill-family contract

Highlights

graph LR
    A[v2.10.2<br/>32 skills]
    B[v2.11.0<br/>38 skills]
    A -->|F-26 lean-canvas + 5 meeting skills| B

    B --> C[New family contract pattern]
    B --> D[Meeting Skills Family v1.1.0]
    B --> E[Thread-aligned samples]
    B --> F[End-user guide]
    B --> G[Adversarial review loop]

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6 new foundation-phase skills

  • foundation-lean-canvas (/lean-canvas). one-page business thesis across 9 interlocking blocks with optional HTML visual rendering (F-26, shipped to main mid-plan 2026-04-15)
  • foundation-meeting-agenda (/meeting-agenda). attendee-facing structural doc with time-boxed topics, type tags, owners, and prep
  • foundation-meeting-brief (/meeting-brief). user’s private strategic prep with stakeholder reads, ranked outcomes, anticipated Q&A
  • foundation-meeting-recap (/meeting-recap). post-meeting topic-segmented summary with decisions bold-flagged and actions inline
  • foundation-meeting-synthesize (/meeting-synthesize). cross-meeting archaeology surfacing patterns, trajectories, and contradictions across recaps
  • foundation-stakeholder-update (/stakeholder-update). async outward communication with 5 channel variants (slack, teams, email, notion, exec-memo) × 5 audience variants

Meeting Skills Family Contract (v1.1.0)

First canonical cross-cutting skill-family contract at docs/reference/skill-families/meeting-skills-contract.md. Defines shared behavioral pattern (zero-friction execution / go-mode), frontmatter schema, filename-based chaining, universal output requirements, and 6 shared taxonomies across the 5 meeting skills.

Enforced by scripts/validate-meeting-skills-family.sh (and .ps1). runs in CI on every PR touching family files. Checks:

  • Each SKILL.md references the contract
  • Each SKILL.md has a Zero-friction execution section
  • Each TEMPLATE.md has the required shareable-summary (or shareable-update for stakeholder-update) + sources-section structure
  • Filename convention conformance (scans EXAMPLE.md + library samples)
  • artifact_type matches the skill

Contract key decisions:

  • Go-mode execution (infer → brief summary → go or corrections; --go flag bypasses checkpoint)
  • Load-bearing inference gates (⚠ flag when stakeholder positions / primary CTA / decision-maker attribution are inferred below-high confidence)
  • Anti-meeting check requires positive synchronous-value statement
  • Type-specific duration defaults (30 min only for standup/1-on-1/exec-briefing/other; 45 for decision-making; 60 for planning/review/project-kickoff/working-session)
  • Stakeholder-update explicit ## Shareable update boundary section
  • Filename pattern YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MMtimezone_title_artifact-type.md with -{channel}-{audience} variant suffix for stakeholder-update

New pattern: docs/reference/skill-families/

The contract lives in a new public directory pattern designed to host future cross-cutting skill-family contracts. docs/reference/skill-families/index.md is the landing page; Meeting Skills Contract is the first entry. Future candidate families: Research Family, Delivery Family.

Thread-aligned library samples (15 new, 120 total)

Library grew from 94 → 120 samples (all counted correctly per v2.11.0 errata). The 5 new meeting skills ship with 3 samples each following the canonical storevine/brainshelf/workbench thread pattern and conforming to SAMPLE_CREATION.md. Each sample has Scenario / Prompt / Output structure, fictional-marker discipline, and top-level sample-library frontmatter (8 keys).

End-user guide

docs/guides/using-meeting-skills.md. narrative walkthrough from first-meeting through cross-meeting synthesis. 3 mermaid diagrams covering:

  1. The family’s 5 skills at a glance
  2. Go-mode decision flow (invocation → inference → checkpoint → output)
  3. End-to-end chain sequence from brief/agenda → meeting → recap → stakeholder-update → synthesize

Adversarial review loop (process improvement)

v2.11.0 was the first release reviewed by 2 rounds of Codex adversarial review. Findings:

  • Round 1: 15 findings (3 CRITICAL, 7 IMPORTANT, 3 MINOR, 1 NIT). 14 resolved same session; 1 deferred to F-31 (v2.12.0)
  • Round 2 (post-resolution): 11 findings (0 CRITICAL, 6 IMPORTANT, 3 MINOR, 2 NIT). 10 resolved same session; 1 stylistic refinement resolved in final pass

Process learnings codified in:

v2.12.0 backlog established

Seven efforts queued for next release, split into two threads:

Sample-automation loop (closes the “samples as a dependency you can’t forget” gap discovered in this release):

  • F-31: pm-skill-validate gains family + sample awareness
  • F-32: pm-skill-builder generates 3 thread-aligned sample drafts automatically
  • F-33: check-sample-standards.sh CI script enforces SAMPLE_CREATION.md compliance
  • F-34: THREAD_PROFILES.md machine-readable reference
  • F-35: pm-skill-iterate offers sample regeneration on skill change

Meeting-skills ecosystem:

  • F-29: workflow-meeting-lifecycle that chains all 5 meeting skills
  • F-30: meeting-skills-family-adoption.md team-level migration guide

Stub at plan_v2.12.0.md.

Upgrade notes

From v2.10.x

No breaking changes. All existing skills unchanged. New skills are additive.

New capabilities:

  • /lean-canvas, /meeting-agenda, /meeting-brief, /meeting-recap, /meeting-synthesize, /stakeholder-update slash commands now available
  • Meeting Skills Family Contract is canonical. read it before authoring meeting-family skills
  • CI validator validate-meeting-skills-family runs automatically

For teams already using internal meeting templates

See docs/guides/using-meeting-skills.md. A team-level adoption guide (F-30) is planned for v2.12.0 after usage signals inform its design.

MCP decoupling reminder

Per M-22 (decided in v2.11.0 planning), pm-skills-mcp is frozen and no longer gates release. MCP tools for the 6 new skills are NOT shipped in v2.11.0. If you use MCP, the server is at its v2.10.x snapshot. Revisit when team adoption creates demand.

Statistics

Metricv2.10.2v2.11.0Delta
Total skills3238+6
Phase skills25250
Foundation skills17+6
Utility skills660
Slash commands3945+6
Workflows990
Library samples94120+26 (includes legacy samples recount)
CI scripts~1516+1 (new family validator)
Skill-family contracts01+1 (meeting-skills family)

Files of note

For end users

For maintainers

Acknowledgments

The Meeting Skills Family emerged from a design-session collaboration that produced two _NOTES/ documents articulating a 5-skill family with shared contracts. Two rounds of Codex adversarial review materially improved the release before tag. The v2.12.0 sample-automation effort slate was scoped from pain discovered during v2.11.0 execution.