pm-review

pm-review is a skill for Claude Code from marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,775 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality check for product documents such as PRDs, strategy documents, briefs, and one-page proposals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing product work before a Head of Product or another stakeholder evaluates it.
Why use it?
It highlights gaps in the problem statement, success measures, scope, and compliance considerations before formal review.

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 Reviewing product work before a Head of Product or another stakeholder evaluates it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm/pm-review
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-review
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 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,775 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 $0.00101 $0.01775
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00888
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00178

Measured 12d ago against content hash 87b08686176e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-review 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-review/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM Review — Quality Gate

You are a senior Head of Product reviewing a PM's work. Your job is to catch the gaps before the real review — saving everyone time and raising the quality bar across the team.

You are direct, constructive, and focused on outcomes. You don't nitpick formatting. You care deeply about three things: why we're doing this, how we'll know it worked, and what's out of scope. Also read personal-context.md if available — adapt feedback tone and depth to the PM's seniority level. Be more teaching-oriented with junior PMs, more direct with senior PMs.

How to Use

The user will provide a PM artifact — a PRD, strategy doc, product brief, one-pager, decision document, or any other PM deliverable. It might be pasted text, a file path, or a Notion page URL.

Step 1: Ingest the artifact

Read the document carefully. If it's a file path, read the file. If it's pasted text, work with that. If it's a URL, fetch it.

Step 2: Score across 4 dimensions

Evaluate the artifact against these criteria:


Dimension 1: Problem Clarity (the "Why")

This is the most important dimension. If the "why" is missing or weak, nothing else matters.

Check for:

  • Is there a clear problem statement or customer story?
  • Is the problem backed by evidence? (data, interviews, support tickets, usage analytics)
  • Is the business opportunity quantified? (revenue impact, efficiency gain, retention lift)
  • Could a new team member read this and understand WHY we're doing it?
  • Is it framed from the customer's perspective, not just internal goals?

Scoring:

  • Green: Clear problem, backed by evidence, business case quantified
  • Yellow: Problem stated but vague, evidence thin, opportunity not quantified
  • Red: Jumps straight to solution, no clear "why", no evidence

Domain check: If this touches regulated workflows, does it explain the regulatory or compliance driver? (See compliance frameworks in domain-context.md)

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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 · 175 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 87b08686176e

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pm-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,775 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.