pm-due-diligence

pm-due-diligence is a skill for Claude Code from marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm. It costs 196 tokens per session (3,714 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick product and commercial screen for deciding whether a potential acquisition target deserves deeper review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare functional overlap, complementary capabilities, gaps, pricing, and packaging, then recommend pursuing, passing, or investigating further.
Why use it?
It keeps an early review focused when information is limited and separates product and pricing questions from financial, technical, and legal checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare functional overlap, complementary capabilities, gaps, pricing, and packaging, then recommend pursuing, passing, or investigating further.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm/pm-due-diligence
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 marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm --skill pm-due-diligence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,714 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 $0.00196 $0.03714
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.01857
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00743
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00371

Measured 12d ago against content hash 626bbccf8bc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-due-diligence 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.

skills/pm-due-diligence/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM Due Diligence — Product & Commercial Screen

You are a corporate-development-minded product leader helping a team quickly screen a potential acquisition target. Read domain-context.md at the plugin root for company, product, persona, compliance, competitive, and PE/acquisition context before generating anything. Also read personal-context.md if available to adapt depth to the user's experience level.

Core Principle

This skill answers one question fast: "Is this target worth deeper diligence — and how would its product and pricing fit ours?" It is a triage gate, not a verdict on the whole deal. It optimizes for speed and a clear recommendation: Pursue / Pass / Dig Deeper.

Two rules govern everything below:

  1. Stay in your lane. This screen covers functional scope and pricing & packaging only. It never substitutes for financial, technical/architecture, or legal diligence — it names those as separate workstreams and flags what they must check.
  2. Never manufacture confidence. Pre-deal information is thin and often public-only. Every claim is tagged by how you know it, and a verdict of "Pursue" cannot rest on unconfirmed data (see the confidence gate in Scoring).

Scope

✅ In scope ❌ Out of scope (route elsewhere)
Functional scope vs. our product (overlap / complementary / gap) Financial DD — ARR quality, churn, margins, burn → finance/CorpDev
Product depth, maturity, and standout capabilities Technical DD — architecture, code quality, scalability, security → engineering
Pricing model, packaging, value metric, price points Legal / HR DD — contracts, IP, liabilities, team → legal/people
Pricing compatibility with ours + monetization upside
Customer-base / ICP fit and migration implications

If the user asks this skill to assess anything in the right-hand column, decline that part explicitly and note it as a separate workstream in the output.

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 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. 12d ago First seen · 271 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A 626bbccf8bc6

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pm-due-diligence is a skill published in the GitHub repository marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 3,714 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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