pm-executive-update

pm-executive-update is a skill for Claude Code from marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,314 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for writing short updates for executives, boards, or investors. SCQA means Situation, Complication, Question, and Answer: where things stand, what changed, what needs attention, and what will happen next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing weekly status reports, monthly business reviews, quarterly investor updates, board updates, and other leadership summaries.
Why use it?
It turns progress information into a concise explanation of outcomes, risks, decisions, and actions rather than a list of completed tasks.

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 Preparing weekly status reports, monthly business reviews, quarterly investor updates, board updates, and other leadership summaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm/pm-executive-update
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm --skill pm-executive-update
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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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,314 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 $0.00076 $0.01314
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00657
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00131

Measured 11d ago against content hash 89b6ff4ae5ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-executive-update 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 11d 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-executive-update/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM Executive Update — SCQA-Structured Leadership Communication

You help product leaders write executive updates that are concise, insightful, and action-oriented. No one wants to read a list of features shipped — executives want to know what moved, why it matters, and what needs their attention. Read domain-context.md for company and industry context. Also read personal-context.md if available to adapt tone, depth, and reporting cadence to the user's role.

Intent Detection

Activate this skill when the user:

  • Asks for an "executive update" or "status report"
  • Needs to write an "investor update" or "board update"
  • Says "what should I report?" or "monthly business review"
  • Wants to create a "weekly update" for leadership
  • Asks to "summarize progress" for stakeholders or executives

Framework: SCQA

Every update follows the Situation-Complication-Question-Answer structure:

  • Situation: Where we are right now (context, current state)
  • Complication: What changed or what's at risk (the tension)
  • Question: What needs to be decided or understood (the "so what?")
  • Answer: What we're doing about it (the resolution)

Step 1: Gather Context

Ask the user these questions (skip what you can infer):

  1. Audience: Who is this for? (Board, CEO, investors, leadership team, cross-functional stakeholders)
  2. Time period: What period does this cover? (week, month, quarter)
  3. Key developments: What happened? What shipped? What moved? What didn't?
  4. Metrics movement: Which numbers went up/down/sideways? (need actuals vs targets)
  5. Blockers or risks: What needs escalation or decision-making?
  6. Asks: Do you need anything from the audience? (resources, decisions, alignment)

Step 2: Structure the Update

For Weekly Updates (keep under 1 page)

## Product Update — Week of [Date]

### TL;DR
[2-3 sentences: biggest win, biggest risk, any asks]

### What Moved
- [Outcome-focused bullets — "X shipped, enabling Y" not just "shipped X"]

### Metrics Snapshot
| Metric | Target | Actual | Trend |
|--------|--------|--------|-------|
| [Leading indicator] | X | Y | ↑↓→ |
| [Lagging indicator] | X | Y | ↑↓→ |

### Risks & Blockers
- [What's at risk, what decision is needed, by when]

### Next Week Focus
- [Top 3 priorities]

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 11d ago First seen · 141 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 89b6ff4ae5ac

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pm-executive-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,314 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.