What do I need to use Board Pre-Read?

The headline; Metrics vs. plan; What changed; Decisions / asks.

Is Board Pre-Read 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.

Board Pre-Read

Q: How do I know the Board Pre-Read output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: It's genuinely a pre-read — sent ahead, readable without a presenter; The TL;DR stands alone for a time-pressed director; Metrics are shown vs. plan, with misses surfaced honestly (not buried); The decisions/asks for the board are explicit and tied to the agenda.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-24 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-business

Write a board pre-read that's sent before the meeting so the meeting is about decisions, not status. Use when asked to prepare a board pre-read, a board update/package, or pre-meeting materials for a board. Produces a board pre-read — a TL;DR, the metrics dashboard vs. plan, what's working / what's not, the decisions and asks for the board, and risks — designed to be read in advance.

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What to give it

▸The headline — the one thing the board should take away this period (good or bad).

▸Metrics vs. plan — the key numbers against the plan/forecast (revenue, growth, burn, runway, the north-star).

▸What changed — major wins, misses, and shifts since last meeting.

▸Decisions / asks — what you actually need from the board (approval, input, introductions).

✅ 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.

✓It's genuinely a pre-read — sent ahead, readable without a presenter

✓The TL;DR stands alone for a time-pressed director

✓Metrics are shown vs. plan, with misses surfaced honestly (not buried)

✓The decisions/asks for the board are explicit and tied to the agenda

✓Runway and the top risks are stated plainly

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not save bad news for the live meeting — boards punish surprises; lead with the hard numbers

Do not send a deck to be read aloud — a pre-read is prose/dashboards designed for solo reading

Do not omit the asks — if the board doesn't know what you need, the meeting defaults to status theatre

Do not vanity-metric the dashboard — show the numbers that govern the business, against plan

Do not inline 40 pages of appendix — link the detail; keep the core pre-read tight

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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