What do I need to use All Hands Deck?

The month's material; The company's current mood; The metrics that recur; The Q&A history.

Is All Hands Deck free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

All Hands Deck

Q: How do I know the All Hands Deck output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The open is one narrative sentence, not a dashboard; The metrics are the standing set, trended, shown in down months at full prominence; Wins name people, and the rotation was checked; Hard news appears early with the for-you slide.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Build an all-hands that lands with everyone from intern to VP — the mixed-altitude structure (the story for all, the numbers for some), the wins-with-names section done right, the hard-news slide handled straight, and the Q&A design that gets real questions. Use when asked build the all-hands deck, make the monthly town hall not boring, how do we share the numbers with everyone, or announce this change at all-hands. Produces the segment structure, the altitude-mixed content rules, the hard-news handling, and the Q&A mechanics.

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What to give it

▸The month's material — the numbers, the wins, the news (including the uncomfortable); the deck is assembled from reality, and the temptation to skip the bad month is the trust-killer to resist

▸The company's current mood — post-layoff, post-win, mid-uncertainty; the structure holds but the emphasis calibrates (anxious companies need the hard-news slide *more* prominent, not less)

▸The metrics that recur — the same 4–6 every time ([kpi-tracker-design](../kpi-tracker-design/SKILL.md) discipline: trends visible, definitions stable), because rotating metrics read as narrative management

▸The Q&A history — what got asked last time, what went unanswered; unanswered questions compound

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The open is one narrative sentence, not a dashboard

✓The metrics are the standing set, trended, shown in down months at full prominence

✓Wins name people, and the rotation was checked

✓Hard news appears early with the for-you slide

✓Q&A takes the hardest pre-submitted question first, and last month's commits were honored

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not rotate metrics by convenience — the vanishing-metric tell reads louder than any bad number

Do not celebrate through a hard month — the floor already knows; festivity reads as distance

Do not thank "the whole team" generically — names or it's wallpaper

Do not soften Q&A by selection — cherry-picked softballs teach people to stop submitting

Do not leave commits unhonored — one forgotten "we'll get back to you" discounts every future one

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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