What do I need to use Async Instead?

The meeting being converted; The team's async maturity; The tools; The failure history.

Is Async Instead 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.

Async Instead

Q: How do I know the Async Instead output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every function of the old meeting maps to a mechanism with a deadline; The doc is templated and lighter than the meeting it replaces; Every decision names decider, deadline, and silence-meaning up front; Decisions land in a durable log, not just the thread.

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

Convert a meeting into async work that actually decides — the doc-plus-deadline format that replaces the room, the comment-window rules, the decision-closure step that async usually fumbles, and the honest test for what still needs synchronous. Use when asked can this meeting be async, replace our status meeting with a doc, run this decision without a call, or async isn't working for us. Produces the conversion design, the async artifact format, the closure protocol, and the still-needs-a-room list.

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What to give it

▸The meeting being converted — its functions in honest proportion (how much status vs. discussion vs. decision vs. the social glue)

▸The team's async maturity — do docs get read here? Are comment deadlines respected? Conversion designs differ for teams with and without the muscle (and building the muscle starts smaller)

▸The tools — where docs live, where comments happen, where decisions get recorded; the design uses the real stack

▸The failure history — if async was tried and died, the autopsy (nobody read? never decided? discussion sprawled?) — the design patches the specific failure

✅ 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.

✓Every function of the old meeting maps to a mechanism with a deadline

✓The doc is templated and lighter than the meeting it replaces

✓Every decision names decider, deadline, and silence-meaning up front

✓Decisions land in a durable log, not just the thread

✓The still-sync list is honest and its residual room is smaller, not parallel

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not convert by cancelling the meeting and hoping — the functions need explicit new homes

Do not run async discussion without a window — unbounded threads are meetings that never end

Do not skip the closure step — async that can't decide trains everyone to book rooms again

Do not leave silence undefined — "nobody objected" and "nobody read it" look identical without the rule

Do not async the genuinely synchronous — one failed forced conversion discredits ten good ones

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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