career-ladder-map

career-ladder-map is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparison of your current career level with the next level's expected skills and responsibilities. It identifies gaps and turns them into projects that can produce evidence for a promotion case.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps compare competencies, prioritize the most important gaps, choose development projects, and define evidence of readiness for the next level.
Why use it?
It replaces vague promotion advice with a clear view of what you already demonstrate and what is still missing.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit It helps compare competencies, prioritize the most important gaps, choose development projects, and define evidence of readiness for the next level.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/career-ladder-map
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,352 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/career-ladder-map"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/career-ladder-map/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/career-ladder-map"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/career-ladder-map.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 92 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 815 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 $0.00092 $0.00815
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00081

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1b6af67dd118, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

career-ladder-map 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 7d 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.

exports/cursor/pm-career/career-ladder-map/career-ladder-map.mdc · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Career Ladder Map Skill

"How do I get to the next level?" usually gets a vague answer. This skill makes it concrete: lay your current demonstrated competencies next to the target level's, find the real gaps, and turn each into a specific project that will generate the evidence a promotion-packet needs. A plan, not a pep talk.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • Current level → target level, and the ladder/rubric for both (the competencies each expects).
  • Your current evidence — what you've demonstrated and where (a brag-doc helps).
  • Constraints — your role's scope, time, and what opportunities are realistically available.

Output Format

Career Ladder Map — [name], [current] → [target]

1. Side-by-side — each competency at current vs. target, with your honest status:

Competency Target-level bar Where I am now Gap
e.g. Scope of influence multi-team strong within my team 🟡 partial

Status: 🟢 already demonstrating · 🟡 partial / inconsistent · 🔴 not yet.

2. The real gaps — the 2–4 competencies (🔴/🟡) that actually stand between you and the level. Be honest — a flattering map wastes quarters.

3. Evidence-generating plan — for each gap, a specific project that would create the proof, plus how you'd get the opportunity (ask your manager, volunteer, scope it yourself):

Gap Project that proves it Opportunity / ask By when

4. Sequencing — what to focus on this quarter vs. next (you can't close every gap at once; pick the highest-signal ones).

5. Manager alignment — what to confirm with your manager so you're calibrated on the same bar (the #1 cause of surprise "not yet"s).

Quality Checks

  • Both levels are mapped against the actual rubric, not a generic guess
  • Your current status is honest (🟢/🟡/🔴), not aspirational
  • Each gap has a specific project that generates evidence — not "get better at X"
  • The plan names how you'll get the opportunity, not just the goal
  • It's sequenced (this quarter vs. next), and includes a manager-calibration step

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 7d ago First seen · 64 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 1b6af67dd118

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career-ladder-map is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,352 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 815 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.