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This is a broad, actively maintained PM-skills library with useful cross-platform guidance, but adoption means accepting a non-commercial license and some maintainer-concentration risk.
Good fit if
- You want reusable PM workflows that explain the reasoning behind their recommendations, not just templates.
- Your AI tools can read structured Markdown, and you want skills that work across more than one agent platform.
- Your intended use fits the repository's CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 terms.
Look elsewhere if
- You need to repackage or sell the skills, or otherwise require a permissive commercial-use license.
- You require a project with contributions broadly distributed across maintainers, since most contributions come from one person.
- You need a PM tool with a conventional automated test suite; the repository's listed requirements indicate CI but no tests.
All health signals
| Last commit | 2026-09-01 (1 month ago) |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 90 days | 37 |
| Releases, last 12 months | 8 (latest v0.84, 2026-08-10) |
| Contributors | 5 (top contributor: 96% of commits) |
| Issues closed, last 90 days | 1 |
| Pull requests merged, last 90 days | 1 |
| Project age | 8 months |
Checked on 2026-10-10 with the GitHub API.
Overview
Product-Manager-Skills is a collection of structured product-management guides designed for both AI agents and the people using them. It addresses a common problem with generic AI assistance: without shared context or guidance on why a framework applies, outputs such as PRDs can be shallow or hard for teams to act on.
The skills cover work from discovery, strategy, and prioritization to market intelligence, product lifecycle decisions, and leadership transitions. Each uses plain-language instructions intended to work across tools that can read Markdown, while explaining the reasoning and pitfalls behind the methods.
Key Features
- Provides guided workflows for tasks such as discovery, roadmap planning, and PRD development.
- Includes interactive advisors that ask context questions before recommending an approach.
- Offers component skills for specific deliverables, including user stories and validation plans.
- Covers market and competitive intelligence, including linked research steps and reusable schemas.
- Includes product lifecycle and end-of-life guidance, from deciding whether to extend or retire a product to planning a sunset.
- Uses a consistent skill structure with input guidance, concepts, application steps, examples, and pitfalls.
- Supports multiple agent environments, including Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other Markdown-capable tools.
- Provides a beta Streamlit playground for browsing and running skills with supported model providers.
Use Cases
- A PM preparing a PRD can use a guided workflow to structure the problem, solution, metrics, and user stories.
- A product team deciding how to prioritize competing work can use an advisor to compare frameworks against its context.
- A PM conducting customer discovery can use interview preparation, synthesis, and validation skills to structure the cycle.
- A team facing a stalled product can use lifecycle guidance to consider extending, replacing, or retiring it, then plan end-of-life work.
- A PM using an AI agent can add repeatable, explanatory guidance to common tasks instead of relying on one-off prompts.
What you need
Detected in the repository
- Shell (main language on GitHub)
- Automated checks on GitHub Actions
Getting Started
For Claude Code, add the marketplace with:
claude /plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
Other setup options and platform-specific instructions are in the README.
License in Plain Words
No standard license was detected. Without a license, the default copyright rules apply: you may read the code, but not reuse it. Check the repository or ask the authors.
Alternatives
- product-manager-skills: It focuses on discovery, SaaS metrics, PRD reviews, roadmaps, and career coaching, with integrations for Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
| Project | Language | License | Stars | Status |
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| Product-Manager-Skills | Shell | – | 7.2k | Active |
| product-manager-skills | Shell | Other | 183 | Quiet |
Considerations
The project is young, and its contribution pattern is concentrated: although several people have contributed, one person accounts for most contributions. It has continued to receive commits and releases, but only one issue was closed in the measured recent period, so teams should not assume rapid issue handling. The repository lists CI but no automated tests. Its license is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which allows non-commercial use and share-alike adaptations but restricts commercial redistribution; review the license before incorporating or distributing the material.
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