What do I need to use Knowledge Gardening?

The garden's state; The team's ask-patterns; The rotation pool; The platform's tools.

Is Knowledge Gardening 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.

Knowledge Gardening

Q: How do I know the Knowledge Gardening output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The gardener is named, rotating, and publicly scheduled; The routine fits 30 minutes with its four moves; Every rot signal has a standard fix requiring no committee; At least two funnels tap existing flows.

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

Keep a team knowledge base alive — the gardener role and its weekly half-hour, the rot signals (stale pages, orphans, duplicates) and their fixes, the capture funnels that feed the garden, and the pruning that keeps search useful. Use when asked our wiki is a graveyard, who maintains the knowledge base, set up knowledge management that lasts, or people can't find anything anymore. Produces the gardener rotation, the weekly tending routine, the rot triage, and the capture funnels.

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What to give it

▸The garden's state — page count, the known-rotten zones, whether the [doc-versioning-discipline](../doc-versioning-discipline/SKILL.md) headers exist (they're the gardening substrate; absent, installing them on the top-50 pages is week one)

▸The team's ask-patterns — where questions get asked and answered (channels, office hours) — the funnels tap the existing flows

▸The rotation pool — who can garden (everyone senior enough to judge staleness; rotation spreads both the load and the familiarity)

▸The platform's tools — labels, backlinks, analytics (zero-traffic page lists are pruning gold) — the routine uses what exists

✅ 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.

✓The gardener is named, rotating, and publicly scheduled

✓The routine fits 30 minutes with its four moves

✓Every rot signal has a standard fix requiring no committee

✓At least two funnels tap existing flows

✓Search-first behavior is being watched as the health metric

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not assign the garden to everyone — that's the graveyard's founding charter

Do not garden in quarterly heroics — weekly small beats quarterly epic, and actually happens

Do not let contradicting pages coexist overnight — canonical-plus-pointer, same day found

Do not maintain without funnels — a weeded garden with no planting is a shrinking one

Do not solve findability rot with user training — the garden adapts to the askers, not the reverse

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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