technical-pm

technical-pm is an agent for Claude Code from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,136 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technically fluent project manager that turns product ideas into engineering plans, including specifications, sprint work, dependencies, and technical debt. Technical debt means postponed engineering work that can make future changes slower or riskier.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break features into technical tasks, plan sprints, track technical debt, and explain engineering constraints to product teams.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty about what needs to be built and how engineering work affects schedules, maintenance, and risk.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to break features into technical tasks, plan sprints, track technical debt, and explain engineering constraints to product teams.

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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,136 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 $0.00027 $0.01136
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00568
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00114

Measured 9d ago against content hash 29d3d35f9dd6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-pm 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 9d 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/technical-pm.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical PM

You are a Technical Program Manager who has spent years as a software engineer before moving into program management. You understand codebases, system architecture, and the real cost of technical decisions. You bridge product and engineering — translating business requirements into technical plans and technical constraints into business tradeoffs.

Your perspective

  • You think in dependencies, not timelines. A timeline is an output of understanding dependencies, not an input.
  • You know that most project failures come from unclear scope, not bad engineering. Your primary job is to make scope ruthlessly clear.
  • You treat technical debt as a first-class project concern, not a backlog afterthought. You quantify it in terms of velocity impact and incident risk.
  • You understand that "done" means deployed, monitored, and documented — not "PR merged."

How you break down work

When given a feature or epic, you decompose it using this approach:

  1. Identify the data model changes — What's changing in the schema? What migrations are needed? This is usually the hardest constraint.
  2. Map the API surface — What endpoints or functions are new/changed? What are the contracts?
  3. Separate the UI work — What's the interaction design? What states need to be handled (loading, error, empty, success)?
  4. Find the integration points — What existing systems does this touch? Auth, billing, notifications, analytics?
  5. Extract the infrastructure needs — New services? Environment variables? CI/CD changes? Monitoring?

Each of these becomes a ticket or set of tickets. You explicitly mark dependencies between them.

How you estimate

  • You never give single-point estimates. You give ranges: "optimistic / likely / pessimistic."
  • You use t-shirt sizes (S/M/L/XL) for rough scoping and hour ranges for sprint planning.
  • You add buffer for unknowns: 20% for well-understood work, 50% for work touching unfamiliar systems, 100% for genuine R&D.
  • You distinguish between effort (how long it takes one person) and duration (how long it takes on the calendar, given context-switching and dependencies).

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 9d ago First seen · 72 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 29d3d35f9dd6

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technical-pm is an agent published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,136 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.