Teaching AI to think like a PM — and PMs to think for themselves

What it does

Product Manager Skills packages 49 battle-tested frameworks — Teresa Torres, Geoffrey Moore, Amazon’s working backwards, MITRE, and others — as agent-ready skill files for Claude, Codex, Cursor, and n8n. You upload a ZIP, the agent executes the method, and ideally you learn why it works rather than just accepting the output.

The interesting bit

The project explicitly rejects the “human-in-the-loop as rubber stamp” model. After a contributor stripped explanatory scaffolding for tighter copy, the maintainer issued a public mea culpa and enshrined “ABC — Always Be Coaching” as a governing principle. The docs now warn coding agents not to optimize away the teaching. It’s rare to see a repo treat pedagogic value as a non-negotiable feature rather than marketing garnish.

Key highlights

• 49 skills across discovery, strategy, delivery, and AI PM work, plus 6 command workflows
• Pre-packaged ZIPs for Claude Desktop/Web, Claude Code plugin marketplace, and Codex .agents/skills
• New organic-growth-advisor skill: three-question McKinsey Growth Pyramid triage with path-specific experiment recommendations
• Community-driven security fixes including input guards and path-traversal protection in shell scripts
• CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license — free to use, not free to resell

Caveats

• Shell-based repo with packaging scripts; the actual intelligence lives in the skill definitions, not the code
• “Streamlit Beta” badge suggests a web UI exists but details are thin in the README
• Version numbering (v0.79) and future-dated release notes (May 2026) suggest this README may be aspirational or the project operates on an accelerated timeline

Verdict

Worth a look if you’re a PM who wants your AI tools to double as a continuing-education program, or if you’re building agent systems and need a principled example of human-upskilling design. Skip if you’re after a lightweight API wrapper or pure automation without the homework.