🧠 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.

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🧠 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):

💭 pm-thinking — think better Escape the generic answer and stress-test your own decisions: 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 devils-advocate-on-demand — fights the "that's great!" bias poke-holes-in-this — only the weaknesses, no praise

🎯 pm-focus — get unstuck ADHD-friendly executive function (useful for everyone): where-do-i-start — chaos → one next action task-to-first-step — beat activation-energy paralysis overwhelm-triage — everything urgent → a calm short list the-one-thing — the single highest-leverage move build-my-memory-file — a MEMORY.md so AI gets you should-i-send-this — catch the message you'd regret

✨ 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:

🏠 "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	🚀 "are we ready to launch?" → product-launch-checklist	📬 "my inbox is 4,000 deep" → email-triage-system

…all 1099 asks live in the catalog.

⚡ Quick start

You want to…	Do this
Browse the skills	SKILLS.md — the full catalog · or the searchable web catalog
Install in Claude Code	/plugin → search pm-skills (it's in the 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 it from exports/chatgpt/ or exports/gemini/ and paste as instructions
Skills over MCP, in any session	claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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:

Your pain	Say this	The skill that answers
Drowning in email	"triage my inbox and cut the volume at the source"	email-triage-system → inbox-unsubscribe-purge
Calendar is all meetings	"audit my recurring meetings and price them"	standing-meeting-audit + meeting-cost-meter
Inherited a scary spreadsheet	"audit this sheet before we trust it"	spreadsheet-audit → formula-detangler
Docs get rewritten in review	"outline first, get sign-off, then draft"	outline-before-prose
Weeks just happen to you	"set up my weekly review"	weekly-review-ritual — the hub the others plug into

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

Is it actually free?

Yes — MIT, all 1099 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 (Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor…). The playground even serves a few sponsor-funded free runs a day. A key only enters the picture for optional extras like running skills from CI.

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. The CLI never touches anything outside the skills directory it tells you about.

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's machine-translated or unscored, it's labelled.

🤝 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.

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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.