pdm-toolkit

PDM Skills Marketplace: The AI Operating System for Product Delivery Managers

61 PDM skills and 26 chained workflows across 8 plugins. From release planning to stakeholder communication, agile delivery, quality, and cross-team coordination.

Designed for Claude Code and Cowork. Skills compatible with other AI assistants.

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Start Here

Planning a release? → /plan-release
Communicating a delay? → /handle-delay
Steering committee meeting? → /steering-deck
Bug triage needed? → /bug-triage
Cross-team conflict? → /resolve-conflict
Post-release review? → /post-mortem

If this project helps you, ⭐ the repo.

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Why PDM Skills Marketplace?

Generic AI gives you text. PDM Skills Marketplace gives you delivery structure.

Each skill encodes a proven delivery framework — release readiness, dependency mapping, risk registers, DORA metrics — and walks you through it step by step. You get the rigor of industry-standard delivery practices (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, DORA) built into your daily workflow.

The result: predictable delivery, not just faster documents.

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How It Works (Skills, Commands, Plugins)

Skills are the building blocks. Each skill gives Claude domain knowledge, analytical frameworks, or a guided workflow for a specific delivery task. Skills load automatically when relevant — no explicit invocation needed.

Commands are user-triggered workflows invoked with /command-name. They chain one or more skills into an end-to-end process. For example, /plan-release chains: scope-definition → dependency-map → risk-register → milestone-plan → launch-checklist.

Plugins group related skills and commands by delivery domain. Installing the marketplace gives you all 8 plugins at once.

Commands suggest relevant next commands after completion — just follow the prompts.

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Installation

Claude Cowork (recommended for non-developers)

1. Open Customize (bottom-left)
2. Go to Browse plugins → Personal → +
3. Select Add marketplace from GitHub
4. Enter: your-github-username/pdm-skills

Claude Code (CLI)

claude plugin add --marketplace your-github-username/pdm-skills

Other AI assistants (skills only)

Copy skills/*/SKILL.md files to your tool's skills folder:

# Example: copy all skills for Gemini CLI
for plugin in pdm-*/; do
  cp -r "$plugin/skills/"* ~/.gemini/skills/ 2>/dev/null
done

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Available Plugins

1. pdm-release-planning

Release planning from scope to launch: dependency mapping, risk registers, capacity planning, rollout strategies, and launch checklists.

Skills (10):

• release-scope — Define release scope from a requirements list with MoSCoW prioritization
• release-readiness — Assess team and product readiness for launch across 6 dimensions
• dependency-map — Map dependencies between teams, components, and external systems
• milestone-plan — Convert goals into measurable milestones with owners and dates
• capacity-planning — Calculate team capacity and distribute across sprints
• risk-register — Risk register with probability, impact, and mitigation plans
• buffer-estimation — Calculate time buffers based on delivery complexity and team history
• launch-checklist — Comprehensive pre-launch checklist across tech, comms, and ops
• rollout-strategy — Rollout strategies: phased, canary, feature flags, big bang
• cut-scope — Analyze what to defer without compromising release value

Commands (3):

• /plan-release — Full release plan: scope → dependencies → risks → milestones → checklist
• /assess-readiness — Launch readiness assessment with go/no-go recommendation
• /map-dependencies — Team and system dependency map for the current release

Examples:

What's the safest rollout strategy for our payments module?
Assess readiness for our Q2 release [attach release plan]
Map dependencies for the platform migration project

/plan-release Mobile app v3.0 — adding real-time chat and push notifications
/assess-readiness [attach current sprint status and open items]
/map-dependencies Three teams: Frontend, Backend, and Data — shipping together in 6 weeks

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2. pdm-stakeholder-delivery

Stakeholder communication across all levels: status reports, delay handling, executive summaries, steering decks, and expectations management.

Skills (8):

• status-report — Weekly/monthly delivery status report (concise and professional)
• escalation-framework — Framework for escalating issues at the right level
• executive-summary — Executive summary of delivery health (1-page format)
• delay-communication — Communicate delays professionally with recovery plan
• steering-deck — Slides for steering committee review
• expectations-reset — Reset stakeholder expectations after scope or timeline changes
• raci-matrix — RACI matrix for delivery responsibilities
• stakeholder-pulse — Quick survey to measure stakeholder satisfaction and trust