🧠 PM Skills — 1099 Professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex & Hermes

What is PM Skills?

PM Skills is an open-source library of 1099 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.)

🐣 New here? Pick a door — each takes about 30 seconds

1. Just looking → open the ▶ Playground and run a skill in your browser. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
2. You use Claude Code → type /plugin, search pm-skills, install. Done — ask "decode this lease" and watch.
3. You use anything else → npx pm-claude-skills add and pick your tool from the menu (Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, ChatGPT, Gemini…).
4. 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.

🧠 Not just what to do — how to think

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):

✨ See it in action

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 1099 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 1099 skills with your own key — or just browse them all.

💬 What can I ask it to do?

Anything below is a real ask that activates a real skill — say it in your own words, the description does the routing:

…all 1099 asks live in the catalog.

⚡ Quick start

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.

📚 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 1099 pass the SkillSpec L3 gate and a security audit in CI.

Decoders	Simulators	Calculators	Live data	Cowork	Tokens	Seatbelt	Essentials

Browse all 1,099 → · try one in your browser →

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
🤝 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/ (121 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.

🔍 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 read it too, audit it, edit it, or write your own. No lock-in, no runtime, no telemetry.

💸 What it costs you, and how to prove it

Cut your token bill

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 200

Plus 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.

🤝 Make the most of the cowork skills

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:

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.

Prove a skill works, and stop paying MCP rent

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 --connect

prove 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.

Quality, not just quantity

• 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

🎁 Beyond the skills (the bonus material)

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

Lint your own skills in CI

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 otherwise

It 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.

Companion tools — for the bits a skill shouldn't guess

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.

🆕 Latest

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.

❓ First-timer questions, straight answers

🤝 Contributing

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/.

❤️ 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.

📄 License

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

Built by Mohit with Claude. 1099 skills · 121 bundles · 35 professions · every commit gated. The long version of this README — every feature, wave, and frontier bet — lives in the Showcase.