What do I need to use Hire or Pass?

role; evidence; scores; references; risks; process.

Is Hire or Pass 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.

Hire or Pass

Q: How do I know the Hire or Pass output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every must-have has an evidence row; untested ones are marked and force `more_signal`; Counter-examples are recorded, not just the good moments; Red flags are listed with evidence or dropped; All four probabilities shown; the verdict cites the thresholds.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-09-22 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-decisions

Turn a hiring debrief into a typed decision — hire, hire at a different level, get more signal, or pass — from rubric evidence only, with probabilities and confidence. Use when asked should we hire this candidate, run the debrief, hire or no-hire, or when interviewers disagree and the manager has to call it. Produces the evidence state per competency, the four-way decision with probabilities, the act-or-hold verdict, and when holding, the exact competency to test and who tests it. Decision support for a human decision — a person owns the hire.

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

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Run the debrief — three interviewers, split panel.”“Hire or pass on this candidate? Here are the scorecards.”“We're at hire vs. pass 50/50 — what do we do?”

What to give it

▸role — title, level, the 3–5 must-have competencies from the rubric

▸evidence — per competency: strongest observed example and strongest counter-example, with the interviewer who saw it

▸scores — rubric scores per interviewer per competency

▸references — if taken: confirmed or contradicted what

▸risks — gaps, level mismatch, red flags *with the evidence behind them*

▸process — any missed interviews or untested competencies

✅ 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 must-have has an evidence row; untested ones are marked and force `more_signal`

✓Counter-examples are recorded, not just the good moments

✓Red flags are listed with evidence or dropped

✓All four probabilities shown; the verdict cites the thresholds

✓The record names the human who decided

✓Nothing in the state is a protected characteristic or a proxy for one

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Overall thumbs** replacing per-competency evidence

**Anchoring on the manager** — collect scores before anyone speaks

**"Culture fit"** as an undefined competency

**Deciding a coin flip** — 0.5 / 0.5 hire/pass is a `more_signal`, always

**Letting the model hire** — it produces evidence about evidence; a person decides

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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