Six-Pager Toolkit
A Claude Code plugin for writing Amazon-style Six-Pager narrative memos — the prose-based business proposal format Jeff Bezos established at Amazon in 2004 to replace PowerPoint.
The Six-Pager is six prose sections of six pages or fewer (plus an unlimited data appendix), read silently for the first 20–30 minutes of a meeting so every reader starts on the same informed footing. The format works because the writing process is the thinking: vague phrasing and unstated assumptions become visible on the page in a way bullet points hide.
This toolkit packages that expertise into one foundational expert skill plus seven workflow skills — each one matched to a specific moment in the writing process, from first idea to reviewer feedback. The skills auto-trigger in Claude Code, and every one is also a self-contained prompt you can paste into any AI assistant.
What's inside
| Skill | Use it when… |
|---|
six-pager-expert | You need the format itself — the six-section structure, the Bezos writing standard, or the review-meeting context. Also the shared grounding for every skill below. |
six-pager-kickoff | You have a vague idea and haven't scoped the memo. Clarifies the proposal, the decision being requested, and the audience — and surfaces gaps before you draft. |
six-pager-goals | Your goals are vague, unmeasurable, or disconnected from a metric leadership tracks. Pressure-tests each into a specific, time-bound target. |
six-pager-tenets | You're writing the Tenets section and can't tell a real decision rule from a values platitude. Generates "when X and Y conflict, we choose Z because…" rules. |
six-pager-drafter | You're ready to draft one section from raw notes and want strong prose to react to — at the right word count, with the gaps in your inputs flagged. |
six-pager-self-review | Your draft is complete and you want an honest section-by-section critique against the Bezos standard before sharing it. |
six-pager-premortem | Your draft is near-final and you want to red-team it — imagining it failed 12 months from now — before the review meeting. |
six-pager-reviewer-coaching | You're reviewing someone else's memo and need to produce structured, actionable feedback in the spirit of the Amazon study hall. |
The six-pager-expert skill also bundles the full source material it distills under skills/six-pager-expert/references/: the story and theory, the writing guide, a working template, and the cognitive-science research behind the format.
Two ways to use it
As a Claude Code plugin
This repository doubles as a plugin marketplace. From inside Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add JJKW1984/six-page-skills
/plugin install six-pager@six-pager
(Replace JJKW1984/six-page-skills with your GitHub owner/repo once pushed. To try it from a local clone, point the first command at the repo path instead, e.g. /plugin marketplace add ./six-page-skills.)
Once installed, the skills load automatically when your conversation matches their triggers — ask to "scope a six-pager for X" and six-pager-kickoff engages; paste a finished draft and ask for a critique and six-pager-self-review engages. You can also invoke any skill explicitly by name.
As standalone prompts
The prompts/ folder holds the same expertise as eight ready-to-paste, fully self-contained Markdown files — no plugin, no frontmatter, no setup. Start with prompts/six-pager-system-instruction.md to turn any session into a Six-Pager expert, then reach for the matching workflow prompt for the moment you're in:
