Question 1

What is PM Skills?

Accepted Answer

PM Skills is an open-source library of 1295 Agent Skills — plain-markdown SKILL.md files that teach an AI assistant to do one professional task to a senior professional's standard, from writing a PRD to decoding a lease. Each skill bundles the framework, an output template, quality checks, and anti-patterns. MIT licensed; works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and Codex.

Question 2

Is PM Skills free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. All 1295 skills are MIT-licensed and free forever. The skills are markdown files; there is nothing to gate. Sponsors fund the playground's free model runs, not access.

Question 3

Do I need an API key to use PM Skills?

Accepted Answer

Not to browse, read, install, or use skills inside a tool you already have such as Claude Code, ChatGPT, or Cursor. The playground serves a few sponsor-funded free runs a day; your own key is only needed for extras like running skills from CI.

Question 4

How do I install PM Skills?

Accepted Answer

In Claude Code, type /plugin and search pm-skills, or run npx pm-claude-skills add and pick your tool — Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, ChatGPT, Gemini and more are supported. Skills can also be used over MCP with npx -y -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp, or via pip install pm-skills for Python frameworks.

Question 5

Does PM Skills work with local models?

Accepted Answer

Yes — skills are plain markdown any model can read, and the library ships a local-eval harness that scores skills against Ollama or LM Studio models using the same rubric as the public leaderboard, so you can verify which skills hold up on the model you run.

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