pm-mode

A product-management workflow for repeatedly collecting feedback, choosing release work, building it, shipping it, and measuring the results. It is intended for products that already have users and continue through multiple release cycles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to harvest signals from feedback and project history, shape releases, rank features, plan debt work, challenge decisions, ship changes, and review product drift.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to turn feedback and project signals into a focused release plan while reviewing technical debt, scope, and risks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dormstern/forge/pm-mode
Any agent
npx skills add dormstern/forge --skill pm-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dormstern/forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,318 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00084 $0.01318
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00659
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00132

Measured 2d ago against content hash 368f891fed4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-mode 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 2d 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-mode/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM mode

You ship a living product through repeating release cycles. Each cycle has discipline — kill list, drift checks, autonomy tiers, stabilization triggers.

Difference from Founder mode: Founder mode is finite (3–5 cycles → graduate or kill). PM mode runs forever — every release ships, measures, harvests signals for the next.

The cycle

HARVEST → SHAPE → BUILD → SHIP, then loop.

HARVEST (15–30 min)

Collect raw signals from feedback, analytics, tickets, competitive observations. Auto-mine git log + open issues + recent PRs. Categorize each, assess thesis_impact (null / confirms / challenges / invalidates), refresh architecture.md incrementally.

Pause: review signal summary. Invalidations get prominent flagging.

SHAPE (30–60 min) — the hero phase

Propose a release plan:

  • Thesis (1 sentence)
  • Identity evolution — only if signals warrant. Trigger + rationale + risk.
  • Features — each with signal_id, requested_by, intent, autonomy (T1/T2/T3)
  • Debt paydown (~15%)
  • Kill list (≥10%) — the 10% Delete Rule. Mandatory.
  • Contract implications (if contract_mode != "none")
  • Appetite — what's NOT included
  • Stabilization check — auto-fire on rework>15% / blocked≥3 / resets>2 / quality<6

Devil's Advocate auto-runs against the plan. Surfaces 2–3 attacks inline. The output is the hero card — screenshottable monospace render with ✓/⚠/✗ markers.

Pause: human approves, modifies, or kills the cycle.

BUILD (async, hours)

Feature breakdown decomposes the plan into a wave (additive — don't re-implement what's done). Then the Ralph Loop:

SELECT next feature → TEST (3–7 acceptance tests) → BUILD (fresh context, max 3 resets) → EVALUATE

Autonomy tiers determine where humans checkpoint:

Tier Test Build Commit
T1 Auto Auto Auto-commit
T2 Auto Auto Checkpoint before commit
T3 Checkpoint Checkpoint Checkpoint before commit

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 2d ago First seen · 100 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 368f891fed4e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pm-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository dormstern/forge (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,318 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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