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Personal Operating Manual
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-focus
Write the manual for how you work best — your energy, triggers, communication style, and non-negotiables — to share with a manager, team, or partner (or to know yourself). Use when asked to write my user manual, how I work best, a working-with-me guide, or help my team understand me. Produces a clear one-pager covering how you communicate, when you're at your best, what drains you, how you like feedback, and your non-negotiables — turning invisible friction into stated expectations, so people can work with you instead of around you.
🗣 Say this to your agent
“Write my 'how to work with me' guide for my new team.”“Help me make a user manual for myself.”“My manager should know how I work best — help me put it in writing.”“A working-with-me guide for my partner about how I operate.”“Help me articulate my non-negotiables and work style.”
What to give it
▸The audience — a manager, a whole team, a partner, or just for yourself
▸How you work best — your conditions, energy, and style (drawn out if needed)
▸Your friction points — where mismatches keep happening
▸Feedback preference — how criticism actually lands well for you
▸Your non-negotiables — the genuine hard lines
✅ 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.
✓Covers the high-friction areas (comms, energy, drains, feedback, non-negotiables)
✓Items are specific and actionable, not vague
✓Framed as enabling, not demanding
✓Separates preferences from genuine non-negotiables
✓Fits on one readable page
✓Tuned to the intended audience
⚠️ What it refuses to do
**Vague preferences** no one can act on.
**A list of demands** rather than an enabling guide.
**Everything as a "non-negotiable"** — diluting the real ones.
**An autobiography** instead of a one-pager.
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-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="personal-operating-manual"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>💬 Discussion
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