Agent skills for product managers
Curated SKILL.md files for PMs using Cursor or Claude Code, spanning discovery, PRDs, research, design collaboration, data, and launch. Install what matches your workflow across categories, not just the product folder.
Discover & validate
Interview, test, and map opportunities before committing to a build.
Opportunity Solution Tree
Structure continuous discovery with Teresa Torres’ OST: map a desired outcome to opportunities, solutions, and experiments. Prioritize problems before features.
User Research
Plan, conduct, and synthesize user research: method selection, interview guide structure, affinity mapping, journey mapping, and deliverables from research plans to synthesis reports.
Usability Testing
Plan and run usability tests with Lenny-style rigor: task design, moderation, synthesis, and guest-insight patterns for turning observations into product recommendations.
Customer Journey Map
Create end-to-end customer journey maps with stages, touchpoints, emotions, pain points, and opportunities. JTBD personas, awareness through advocacy, and Mermaid or table output formats.
Grill Me
Relentless interviewing skill that stress-tests plans and designs through systematic questioning. Walks each branch of the design tree one decision at a time, with recommended answers and codebase exploration when context is available.
Grill With Docs
Relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design while creating ADRs and glossary docs as you go. Pairs with domain modeling and grilling workflows.
Research
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture findings as a Markdown file in the repo for PM and founder discovery work.
Just Scrape
Scrape and extract structured data from websites for competitive research, market intel, and PM discovery workflows using the ScrapeGraphAI CLI.
Firecrawl
Crawl, scrape, and search the web with Firecrawl for competitive research, SEO audits, market intel, and content extraction at scale.
Wayfinder
Navigate complex product and engineering work when the next step is unclear: map options, dependencies, and the highest-leverage path forward.
Spec & prioritize
Write PRDs, prioritize with frameworks, and measure what ships.
to-prd
Turn conversation context into a structured PRD and publish to your issue tracker. Synthesizes problem, solution, user stories, and test seams without an interview loop. Includes a PRD template and ready-for-agent triage workflow.
To Issues
Break a plan, spec, or PRD into independently grabbable issues on your issue tracker using tracer-bullet vertical slices and agent-ready briefs.
Triage
Move issues and external PRs through a triage state machine: categorize, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs for implementation.
Prototype
Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question: sanity-check state models, logic, or UI shape before committing to a full spec or implementation.
PM Handoff
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent or session to pick up, with suggested skills and redacted sensitive data.
Product Manager Toolkit
Essential tools for PM: RICE prioritization, customer interview analysis, PRD templates. Feature prioritization, discovery, roadmap.
AI Evals
Create and run AI evaluations for LLM products: rubrics, test cases, failure analysis, and Pass/Fail criteria. Treat evals as the product requirement doc for AI features.
Data Visualization
Design effective data visualizations: charts, graphs, dashboards, and infographics. Learn principles for making data clear, accessible, and actionable.
AI Product
Ship LLM features to production: structured output, streaming, prompt versioning. Avoid demo-ware, context stuffing, unvalidated output.
AI Product Strategy
Decide where AI belongs in your product: strategic bets, build-vs-buy, and avoiding AI-for-AI’s-sake. Complements shipping-focused AI product engineering skills.
DOCX
Create, read, edit, and manipulate Word documents (.docx): formatting, tables of contents, tracked changes, comments, templates, and professional reports.
Create, read, merge, split, and manipulate PDF files: forms, extraction, annotations, and document workflows for reports, contracts, and deliverables.
XLSX
Create, read, edit, and analyze Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx): formulas, charts, pivot tables, and structured data workflows for plans, models, and reports.
Doc Co-Authoring
Co-author long-form documents with structured workflows: outlines, iterative drafting, stakeholder feedback loops, and polished final deliverables.
Wayfinder
Navigate complex product and engineering work when the next step is unclear: map options, dependencies, and the highest-leverage path forward.
Partner on design
Partner with design on critique, wireframes, and UX copy.
Design Critique
Structured framework for giving and receiving design feedback. Covers critique formats, feedback types, and facilitation guidelines.
Wireframe Prototyping
Low-fidelity wireframes and HTML prototypes: layout patterns, component templates, tooling choices, and prototype testing flows for fast UX validation before visual polish.
Design an Interface
Generate multiple radically different interface designs for a module using parallel exploration, then compare. Based on "Design It Twice" from A Philosophy of Software Design.
Image to Code
Convert screenshots, mockups, and visual references into production-ready frontend code with design-faithful layout, typography, and component structure.
Impeccable
Design, critique, audit, and polish frontend UI: hierarchy, accessibility, motion, typography, spacing, theming, and live browser iteration.
UX Writing
Write effective microcopy: button labels, error messages, empty states, onboarding, and tooltips that guide users through your interface.
PM Handoff
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent or session to pick up, with suggested skills and redacted sensitive data.
Launch & go to market
Coordinate launch messaging, positioning, and competitive pages.
Product Launch
Plan product launches with the ORB framework (owned, rented, borrowed channels) and phased rollout from internal alpha to full launch.
Page CRO
Optimize landing pages, homepages, pricing pages, and marketing pages for conversions: value prop clarity, headlines, CTAs, trust signals, and friction fixes with test ideas.
Onboarding CRO
Optimize post-signup onboarding and activation: define aha moments, map time-to-value, design checklists and empty states, and coordinate trigger-based emails.
Copywriting
Conversion copywriting: headlines, CTAs, page structure. Clarity over cleverness, benefits over features. Use product-marketing-context when available.
Competitor & Alternative Pages
Create comparison and alternative pages that rank and convert. Honesty, depth, help evaluators decide. Use product-marketing-context.
Marketing Psychology
Apply psychological principles and mental models to marketing, buyer behavior, persuasion, pricing psychology, and ethical influence frameworks.
Product Marketing Context
Create and maintain .claude/product-marketing-context.md: positioning, audience, differentiation, customer language. Other marketing skills reference it.
Find Skills
Discover and install agent skills from the open ecosystem. Search skills.sh, verify quality, and install with npx skills when users need capabilities beyond your current setup.
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Frequently asked questions
What are agent skills for product managers?
Agent skills are SKILL.md files that teach coding agents how to run PM workflows (writing PRDs, running discovery with OST, synthesizing research, critiquing design, and prepping launches) without re-explaining frameworks each session.
Which PM skills should I install first?
Start with To PRD and Opportunity Solution Tree for discovery and specs. Add User Research and Usability Testing if you validate often. Add Launch and Product Marketing Context when you ship.
Why do PM skills span design and marketing categories?
PM work crosses research, UX, data, and GTM. This page curates the best skills for that role; topic pages like Product or Marketing list skills by category only.