altitude-horizon-framework

altitude-horizon-framework is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library. It costs 33 tokens per session (3,130 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for understanding the move from product manager to director by looking at scope and time horizon. It explains when a leader should focus on individual features and teams versus portfolios, organizations, and long-term strategy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a PM-to-director transition, clarify leadership responsibilities, identify transition difficulties, and create broader organizational context.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose leadership gaps caused by working too narrowly or focusing only on short-term work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess a PM-to-director transition, clarify leadership responsibilities, identify transition difficulties, and create broader organizational context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library/altitude-horizon-framework
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library --skill altitude-horizon-framework
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,130 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 $0.00033 $0.03130
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01565
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00626
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00313

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0304e9d053c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

altitude-horizon-framework 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 9d 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/altitude-horizon-framework/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Defines the two-axis mental model that distinguishes Director-level thinking from PM thinking: Altitude (how wide you zoom out) and Horizon (how far ahead you look). Use this to understand what actually changes in the transition, diagnose which transition zone is creating friction, and apply the Cascading Context Map when organizational direction is vague or absent.

This is not a seniority hierarchy. A PM operating at the right altitude for their role is doing excellent work. A Director operating at PM altitude is leaving their actual job undone.

Key Concepts

The Two Axes

Altitude — Scope

  • PM altitude: Close to the ground. Customer problems, individual features, sprint priorities, specific team dynamics.
  • Director altitude: High-level view. Product portfolio, cross-functional systems, organizational dynamics, budget allocation, market positioning.
  • The shift is not about losing empathy for customers — it's about zooming out to see the entire restaurant, not just one table.

Horizon — Time

  • PM horizon: Days, weeks, sprints. A quarter at most.
  • Director horizon: Quarter as the starting point. Annual planning cycles, multi-year strategy, market shifts.
  • Directors plan for where the product ecosystem needs to be in a year, then work backward.

The Waiter vs. Restaurant Operator

The sharpest analogy for the role shift:

Dimension PM (Waiter) Director (Restaurant Operator)
Focus Individual diner experience Entire system — staffing, margins, menu, suppliers
Authority Influence without control Portfolio decisions, budget, resource allocation
Success metric Table seven is happy Restaurant is profitable, consistent, and scalable
Relationship to customers Direct, daily, intimate Aggregate patterns, buyer personas, market cohorts
Failure mode Ignoring Table Seven's needs Obsessing over Table Seven's lemons

The waiter excels at translating the experience of individual diners. The operator isn't ignoring diners — they're asking different questions: "Are we overspending on ingredients? Is a 75-page menu confusing customers? Do we need another server for the dinner rush?" Neither question is more important in absolute terms. They're appropriate to different roles.

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 lines

Files

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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 260 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 0304e9d053c3

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altitude-horizon-framework is a skill published in the GitHub repository onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 3,130 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.