What do I need to use PhD Supervisor Update?

Field, stage of the doctorate, and the next; What was agreed at the last meeting; What was actually done, including what was tried; Results, drafts or figures to show; What is blocked and what the student has; Decisions the student needs; Meeting length and the supervisor's preferences.

Is PhD Supervisor Update 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.

PhD Supervisor Update

Q: How do I know the PhD Supervisor Update output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every action from the last meeting is accounted for; Results state what they mean, not only what was done; Each block lists what was already tried; Questions can be answered with a choice or a yes or no.

🔵 Stable 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-phd

Write a doctoral student's update to a supervisor before a meeting: what was done since last time against what was agreed, results and their meaning, what is blocked, decisions needed from the supervisor, and the plan to the next meeting. Use when asked to write my supervisor update, prepare for supervision, email my advisor about progress, I have nothing to show my supervisor, or write the agenda for my PhD meeting. Produces a one-page update, an agenda with time per item, specific questions that can be answered yes or no or with a choice, and a post-meeting action record template. Distinct from stakeholder-update, which is for workplace projects.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft ⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet) 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Write my update for Thursday's supervision from these notes.”“I got nothing to work for three weeks. How do I tell my supervisor?”“Turn this into an agenda for a 30-minute meeting with my advisor.”“Help me phrase the questions I need answered about my methods chapter.”“Run this skill in your browser: https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/skill/phd-supervisor-update.html”

What to give it

▸Field, stage of the doctorate, and the next — formal milestone with its date

▸What was agreed at the last meeting

▸What was actually done, including what was tried — and failed

▸Results, drafts or figures to show

▸What is blocked and what the student has — already tried

▸Decisions the student needs

▸Meeting length and the supervisor's preferences — email in advance, slides, a document

✅ 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 action from the last meeting is accounted for

✓Results state what they mean, not only what was done

✓Each block lists what was already tried

✓Questions can be answered with a choice or a yes or no

✓The milestone status is stated honestly

✓The update fits on one page

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Do not report activity as progress.**

**Do not hide a slipped deadline.**

**Do not ask open questions that hand the thinking to the supervisor.**

**Do not send twenty pages the night before.**

**Do not invent results or overstate a preliminary finding.**

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 -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

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🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

<div data-pm-skill="phd-supervisor-update"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

💬 Discussion

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