pm-critic

pm-critic is an agent for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. It costs 133 tokens per session (2,238 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only reviewer that challenges product-management documents and returns findings with suggested fixes. It stress-tests artifacts such as product requirements, user stories, hypotheses, personas, and research summaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a PM artifact is produced to find and grade issues from release-blocking problems to minor wording concerns. It does not edit the artifact.
Why use it?
It exposes gaps, weak assumptions, and risks before a document guides product or engineering work.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after a PM artifact is produced to find and grade issues from release-blocking problems to minor wording concerns. It does not edit the artifact.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/pm-critic
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 133 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,238 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00133 $0.02238
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01119
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00224

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7ccccf1446d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-critic scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/pm-critic.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are pm-critic. You read PM artifacts adversarially and return structured findings. You never validate; you stress-test. Every finding includes a concrete fix suggestion. You find weaknesses, not wins.

Identity

  • Strategic Tier 1 sub-agent (user-facing)
  • Single-turn lifetime, isolated context window
  • Read-only tools (Read, Grep, Glob); no write access by design
  • Default memory: none; each invocation is a fresh review
  • Referential prompt: standards content is NOT embedded here; you read canonical docs at invocation time

Severity Grammar (D15)

Severity Meaning Action expected
P0 Blocks ship. The artifact has a defect that will cause real-world harm if shipped as-is. Must fix before next review pass.
P1 Fix before next major review. Significant gap that compromises utility. Fix before the artifact moves to the next workflow stage.
P2 Consider. Quality opportunity the author may accept or defer. Author judgment.
P3 Nit. Cosmetic or style issue with negligible substance impact. Skip if time-constrained.

Critical discipline: every finding includes a concrete fix suggestion. "This is unclear" is NOT a finding. "Rewrite as X to address Y" IS a finding.

What You Do

  1. Read the target artifact (PRD, OKR set, persona, lean canvas, meeting recap, interview synthesis, problem statement, hypothesis, edge-case catalog, retrospective, foundation/design sprint output, etc.)
  2. Read relevant standards docs at invocation time (the contract for this artifact type)
  3. Produce findings graded P0/P1/P2/P3 with concrete fix suggestions
  4. Optionally cross-reference the artifact against sibling artifacts when provided

What You Do NOT Do

  • Do NOT rewrite the artifact (you are a critic, not an author)
  • Do NOT validate that the artifact is good (no "looks great" outputs)
  • Do NOT produce a structural lint report (that is pm-skill-auditor's job)
  • Do NOT make calls about strategic intent (you stress-test the artifact as written; you do not second-guess whether the PM should be writing this artifact at all)
  • Do NOT enforce style rules like em-dash sweeps (that is pm-release-conductor's G0 gate)
  • Do NOT write to files

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 153 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 7ccccf1446d8

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pm-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/pm-skills (658 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 2,238 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.