pm-writing

pm-writing is a skill for Claude Code from aroyburman-codes/pm-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,539 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing product documents with direct, precise language and clear priorities. Product managers use these documents to explain decisions, plans, and requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rewrite drafts or create product documents, decision proposals, plans, and other practical team communications.
Why use it?
It helps remove vague wording and makes the main point, priority, or decision easier to find.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to rewrite drafts or create product documents, decision proposals, plans, and other practical team communications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aroyburman-codes/pm-skills/pm-writing
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aroyburman-codes/pm-skills --skill pm-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aroyburman-codes/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,539 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 $0.00047 $0.01539
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00770
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00154

Measured 10d ago against content hash e2af1b51bd2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-writing 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 10d 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.

skills/pm-writing/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM Writing Skill

Transform vague product writing into precise, actionable communication. Or generate new docs from scratch using PM writing best practices.

When to Use

  • User has a draft doc and wants it sharpened
  • User needs to write a doc from scratch with extreme clarity
  • User says /pm-writing followed by text to rewrite or a description
  • Any PM communication that needs to be clearer, shorter, or more actionable

Two Modes

Mode 1: Rewrite

User pastes existing text. Rewrite it applying all principles below. Show before/after.

Mode 2: Generate

User describes what they need. Generate it from scratch using the principles below.


The 10 Principles of PM Writing

1. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF)

The first sentence of any document should answer: "What do you need from the reader?"

Bad: "Background on Q4 planning: Over the past several months, we've been evaluating various approaches to our recommendation system..." Good: "We need to decide by Friday whether to rebuild the recommendation engine (8 weeks) or patch the current one (2 weeks). I recommend rebuilding. Here's why."

Never make the reader hunt for the point. Lead with the decision, ask, or conclusion.

2. Numbered Lists Over Bullets

Use numbered lists instead of bullet points. Numbers allow precise referencing in feedback and discussion.

Bad:

  • Improve onboarding flow
  • Fix search latency
  • Add export feature

Good:

  1. Improve onboarding flow (activation +15%)
  2. Fix search latency (p95 from 2s → 500ms)
  3. Add export feature (top enterprise request)

Now a reviewer can say "I disagree with #2's priority" instead of "the second thing you mentioned."

3. One Canonical Doc Per Topic

Every project should have exactly one source of truth. It links to everything else but IS the definitive reference.

Structure of a canonical doc:

  • Title, owner, last updated date
  • Status (Draft / Active / Archived)
  • The content itself (goals, decisions, open questions)
  • Links to related docs (not duplicated content)

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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. 10d ago First seen · 156 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A e2af1b51bd2a

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pm-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository aroyburman-codes/pm-skills (25 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,539 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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