Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill building-a-promotion-casegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/building-a-promotion-case)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/building-a-promotion-case"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/building-a-promotion-case/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/building-a-promotion-case"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/building-a-promotion-case.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00051 | $0.00946 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00473 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00189 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00095 |
Grade A, and why
building-a-promotion-case 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Building a Promotion Case
Help the user build a compelling case for promotion using strategies from 17 product leaders.
How to Help
When the user asks for help with getting promoted:
- Diagnose the situation - Ask about their current role, target role, and relationship with their manager
- Identify blockers - Help determine if the issue is visibility, advocacy, role availability, or skill gaps
- Build the case - Help frame the promotion as solving a company problem, not a personal milestone
- Coach on tactics - Share specific approaches for conversations and demonstrating readiness
Core Principles
Focus on impact, not promotion
Ian McAllister: "I never talked to my manager about promotion. I just focused on growing my book of business. The result was I got promoted several times." Optimize for impact—promotions follow.
Promotions recognize, they don't develop
Christian Idiodi: "I'm promoting you to do the job, not to learn the job." You need to already be performing at the next level before the title comes. Practice "director things" before you're a director.
Frame it as solving their problem
Claire Vo: "The conversation needs to be about what you being in a different position does for the company. Instead of 'I want to be a director,' say 'You have nine direct reports—you need leverage here.'"
Use the Magic Loop
Ethan Evans: "(1) Do your current job well. (2) Ask your boss how you can help. (3) Do what they ask. (4) Say 'Is there work that helps you AND helps me reach my goal?' (5) Repeat." Build partnership, not pressure.
Visibility is prerequisite
Jeffrey Pfeffer: "No one is going to promote you if they don't know who you are. Competence alone is insufficient. You must have visibility to match your substance."
Build a superpower reputation
Jiaona Zhang: "Be known for something specific—complex launches, technical depth, regulatory expertise. When you're known for excellence, responsibility flows to you naturally."
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 77 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 40ec539eae84
building-a-promotion-case is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 946 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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