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Pm Skills

Install pm-skills when you want a full product-management toolkit—company research, journey maps, and discovery interviews—available as agent plugins while you validate what to build solo.

Overview

pm-skills is a plugin marketplace for the Idea phase that bundles 47 product-management skills—discovery research, journey mapping, and interview prep—for Claude-compatible agents.

What is this marketplace?

  • 47 PM plugins in one Claude marketplace—no piecemeal prompt hunting
  • Company research briefs with executive quotes, product strategy, and org context
  • Customer journey maps across stages, touchpoints, actions, emotions, and metrics
  • Facilitation-ready customer journey mapping workshop with adaptive questions
  • Discovery interview prep aligned to customer research and competitive context
  • 47 plugins in the pm-skills marketplace
  • Plugins include discovery-category skills such as company-research, customer-journey-map, and discovery-interview-prep
  • Maintained by Dean Peters (Productside) as a unified PM skills bundle

Compatible agents: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, any compatible agent

Community signal: 5k GitHub stars.

What problem does it solve?

Solo builders know they should do discovery and journey mapping but lack repeatable templates and end up with shallow ChatGPT answers instead of interview-ready artifacts.

Who is it for?

Indie SaaS founders and solo builders using Claude Code or Cursor who need PM-grade discovery outputs without hiring a full-time PM.

Skip if: Teams that only need a single integration skill, pure engineering codegen with no customer discovery, or orgs blocked from installing third-party agent plugin marketplaces.

What do I get? / Deliverables

After you register the marketplace, you can invoke named PM plugins that output research briefs, journey maps, and interview plans you can ship into validation docs and backlogs.

  • Company research briefs with strategy and org context
  • Customer journey maps and workshop-ready facilitation outputs
  • Discovery interview preparation guides with adaptive questions

Plugins in this marketplace

47 plugins — install individually after you add the marketplace.

PluginVersion
Company ResearchCreate a company research brief with executive quotes, product strategy, and org context.Customer Journey MapCreate a customer journey map across stages, touchpoints, actions, emotions, and metrics.Customer Journey Mapping WorkshopRun a customer journey mapping workshop with adaptive questions and outputs.Discovery Interview PrepPlan customer discovery interviews with the right goal, segment, constraints, and method.Discovery ProcessRun a full discovery cycle from problem hypothesis to validated solution.Jobs To Be DoneUncover customer jobs, pains, and gains in a structured JTBD format.Lean Ux CanvasGuide teams through Lean UX Canvas v2 to frame problems and surface assumptions.Opportunity Solution TreeBuild an Opportunity Solution Tree from outcomes to opportunities, solutions, and tests.Problem Framing CanvasGuide teams through MITRE's Problem Framing Canvas for clearer problem statements.Problem StatementWrite a user-centered problem statement with who, what, why, and how it feels.Proto PersonaCreate a proto-persona from current research, market signals, and team knowledge.Pestel AnalysisAnalyze political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal forces.Positioning StatementCreate a Geoffrey Moore-style positioning statement for your product.Positioning WorkshopRun a positioning workshop to surface target customer, need, category, and differentiation.Prd DevelopmentBuild a structured PRD connecting problem, users, solution, and success criteria.Press ReleaseWrite an Amazon-style press release that defines customer value before building.Prioritization AdvisorChoose a prioritization framework based on stage, team context, and stakeholder needs.Product Strategy SessionRun an end-to-end product strategy session across positioning, discovery, and roadmap.Roadmap PlanningPlan a strategic roadmap across prioritization, epics, stakeholders, and sequencing.Tam Sam Som CalculatorCalculate TAM, SAM, and SOM with explicit assumptions, methods, and caveats.Eol MessageWrite a clear, empathetic EOL announcement with rationale and next steps.Epic Breakdown AdvisorBreak down epics into user stories with Humanizing Work split patterns.Epic HypothesisFrame an epic as a testable hypothesis with target user, outcome, and validation.StoryboardCreate a six-frame storyboard showing a user's journey from problem to solution.User StoryCreate user stories with Mike Cohn format and Gherkin acceptance criteria.User Story MappingCreate a user story map with activities, steps, tasks, and release slices.User Story Mapping WorkshopRun a user story mapping workshop with adaptive questions and structured output.User Story SplittingBreak a large story into smaller deliverable stories using proven split patterns.Acquisition Channel AdvisorEvaluate acquisition channels using unit economics, customer quality, and scalability.Business Health DiagnosticDiagnose SaaS business health across growth, retention, efficiency, and capital.Feature Investment AdvisorEvaluate feature investments using revenue impact, cost structure, ROI, and strategy.Finance Based Pricing AdvisorEvaluate pricing changes using ARPU, conversion, churn risk, NRR, and payback.Finance Metrics QuickrefLook up SaaS finance metrics, formulas, and benchmarks fast.Saas Economics Efficiency MetricsEvaluate SaaS unit economics and capital efficiency for scaling decisions.Saas Revenue Growth MetricsCalculate SaaS revenue, retention, and growth metrics for momentum diagnosis.Altitude Horizon FrameworkUnderstand the PM-to-Director transition through altitude and horizon thinking.Director Readiness AdvisorGuide the PM-to-Director transition across preparing, interviewing, and landing.Executive Onboarding PlaybookPlan a VP or CPO 30-60-90 day diagnostic onboarding path.Product Sense Interview AnswerStructure a spoken product-sense interview answer with segmentation and MVP tradeoffs.Vp Cpo Readiness AdvisorGuide the transition to VP or CPO across preparing, interviewing, and recalibrating.Ai Shaped Readiness AdvisorAssess whether your product work is AI-first or AI-shaped across 5 competencies.Context Engineering AdvisorDiagnose context stuffing vs. context engineering in AI workflows.Pol ProbeDefine a Proof of Life probe to test a risky hypothesis cheaply.Pol Probe AdvisorSelect the right Proof of Life probe type based on hypothesis, risk, and resources.Recommendation CanvasEvaluate an AI product idea across outcomes, hypotheses, risks, and positioning.Workshop FacilitationFacilitate workshop sessions with consistent pacing, options, and progress tracking.Skill Authoring WorkflowTurn raw PM content into a compliant, publish-ready skill.

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Journey fit

Dean Peters’ marketplace is shelved under Idea because most plugins are tagged for discovery and upstream customer understanding—the work you do before committing scope and build. Discover is the best subphase fit: plugins like discovery-interview-prep, company-research, and customer-journey-map produce artifacts that clarify problem, audience, and experience before validation and implementation.

How it compares

Curated PM plugin marketplace with 47 skills, not one monolithic skill or an MCP server integration.

Common Questions / FAQ

Who is Pm Skills for?

Pm Skills is for solo builders, indie founders, and small teams who run discovery, journey mapping, and interview prep inside Claude Code or similar agents and want Dean Peters’ PM methods as installable plugins.

When should I use Pm Skills?

Use Pm Skills when you are in early idea or validation work—competitive context, customer journeys, or discovery calls—and need structured outputs before you scope features or write code.

How do I add Pm Skills to my agent?

Add the Pm Skills marketplace from the deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills catalog entry in Skillselion, then enable or invoke individual plugins (for example company-research or discovery-interview-prep) from your agent’s plugin or skills UI per your host’s marketplace docs.

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