What do I need to use Escalation Email?

The stuck thing; The attempts log; The players; The ask.

Is Escalation Email 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.

Escalation Email

Q: How do I know the Escalation Email output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: No adjectives about people — dates and events carry the case; The attempts section shows 2+ real tries through normal channels; The cost is quantified once, honestly; The ask is one action within the recipient's power.

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

Escalate an issue up the chain without burning the person you're escalating past — the facts-first structure, the tried-already section that earns the escalation, and the specific ask that makes action easy. Use when asked I need to escalate this, write an email to my boss's boss, this vendor issue needs to go up, or how do I go over someone's head professionally. Produces the escalation email with its evidence spine, the pre-escalation courtesy step, and the relationship-preserving framing.

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What to give it

▸The stuck thing — what's blocked, since when, what it's costing (time, money, a customer) — costs make escalations move

▸The attempts log — what was tried, when, what came back; an escalation without attempts is just skipping the line

▸The players — who's being escalated to, who's being escalated past, and the relationship texture with each

▸The ask — the specific action the recipient can take ("approve the exception," "reassign the ticket," "a 15-minute decision meeting") — never "please advise"

✅ 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.

✓No adjectives about people — dates and events carry the case

✓The attempts section shows 2+ real tries through normal channels

✓The cost is quantified once, honestly

✓The ask is one action within the recipient's power

✓The escalated-past person hears it from you first (or the skip is justified explicitly)

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not vent — an escalation that asks for nothing is filed as mood

Do not ambush — the surprise escalation buys one win and a permanent enemy

Do not inflate the cost — the first discovered inflation discounts all your future cases

Do not escalate without attempts — that's queue-jumping wearing a process word

Do not cc the world — the recipient plus the minimum necessary; audience size reads as aggression

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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