Capacity Planning

Produce a capacity planning document for a service covering traffic forecasts, resource requirements, and scaling strategy. Use when asked to plan infrastructure capacity, forecast resource needs, model traffic growth, define scaling strategy, or produce a capacity review for a service. Produces a structured capacity plan covering current baseline metrics, growth projections, resource requirements per tier, scaling strategy, cost projections, capacity triggers, and an infrastructure action roadmap.

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

What to give it

• Service name and description — what the service does and who depends on it
• Current traffic and usage metrics — requests per second (or per day), active users, data volume — whatever units are most natural for this service
• Current resource utilisation — CPU %, memory %, disk usage, connection pool utilisation, DB query throughput
• Growth rate or projections — historical growth rate, or known upcoming events (product launch, sales cycle, seasonal peak)
• Tech stack and infrastructure — cloud provider, compute type (VMs, containers, serverless), database, caching layer, CDN
• Cost constraints — current infrastructure spend, acceptable cost ceiling, or target cost per unit of traffic

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