What do I need to use College App Parent Guide?

Where in the cycle; The student, honestly; The family's real constraints; The friction, if any.

Is College App Parent Guide 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.

College App Parent Guide

Q: How do I know the College App Parent Guide output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every job in the split has exactly one owner, and essays are unambiguously the student's; The money constraint is scheduled to be said before the list solidifies; The check-in cadence is on the calendar so nagging has no vacuum to fill; Scripts for the stall address fear and scope, not character.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-parents

Support a teenager through college applications without taking them over — the parent's actual jobs (logistics, finances, emotional ballast), the ownership lines that keep the application theirs, and the scripts for the hard moments. Use when asked how do I help my kid with college apps, how involved should I be, my teenager won't start their essays, or we disagree about the college list. Produces the role split, the family timeline, the money conversation framework, and the scripts for deadlock, rejection, and the essay you must not write.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸Where in the cycle — junior-year planning, summer-before, mid-application crunch, or decisions-in-hand; the guide reshapes per stage

▸The student, honestly — self-starter or avoidant, what they say they want, and how much they've actually done (the gap between those last two is the most common situation)

▸The family's real constraints — what's affordable, geographic needs, and whether the constraints have been *said out loud yet*

▸The friction, if any — the fight that keeps happening; scripts get tuned to it

✅ 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 job in the split has exactly one owner, and essays are unambiguously the student's

✓The money constraint is scheduled to be said before the list solidifies

✓The check-in cadence is on the calendar so nagging has no vacuum to fill

✓Scripts for the stall address fear and scope, not character

✓The rejection script separates hour-one comfort from weekend reframing

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not write or rewrite essay sentences — readers detect it, and the student internalizes the wrong lesson either way

Do not spring the budget in April — a late constraint reads as betrayal; an early one reads as planning

Do not relitigate the list weekly — input once, veto on money, then it's theirs

Do not manage by ambush ("have you started?") — the calendar and the scheduled check-in are the system

Do not make an acceptance or rejection about the family's worth — the student is applying to college, not the household

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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