What do I need to use PIP Responder?

The PIP document; The backstory; Their honest self-assessment; Financial runway and constraints.

Is PIP Responder 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.

PIP Responder

Q: How do I know the PIP Responder output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Both tracks present — never hope alone or panic alone; Every vague PIP goal has a clarifying question pinning it to something measurable; Documentation lives outside employer systems, starting day one; The written response is temperature-zero — no grievance, no groveling.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-career

Respond to a performance improvement plan strategically — decode what the PIP really is, decide fight-vs-land-softly with clear eyes, build the evidence file, and run the parallel job search the situation demands. Use when asked I was just put on a PIP what do I do, help me respond to a performance improvement plan, is my PIP survivable, or write my PIP check-in updates. Produces the honest read of the PIP, the two-track plan (perform + search), the documentation system, and templates for check-ins and the written response.

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

What to give it

▸The PIP document — goals, metrics, duration, review cadence, and whether the goals are things a human can actually do

▸The backstory — surprise or long-signaled? relationship with manager? recent org context (new manager, layoffs-by-another-name season)?

▸Their honest self-assessment — is the criticism partly fair? (changes the perform-track, not the search-track)

▸Financial runway and constraints — visa status especially, which changes the timeline math entirely and needs an immigration-aware plan

✅ 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.

✓Both tracks present — never hope alone or panic alone

✓Every vague PIP goal has a clarifying question pinning it to something measurable

✓Documentation lives outside employer systems, starting day one

✓The written response is temperature-zero — no grievance, no groveling

✓The lawyer line appears, and visa holders are routed to immigration-aware advice

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not treat the PIP as pure formality OR pure good faith — plan for both endings simultaneously

Do not respond emotionally in writing — every sentence may be read by a lawyer later, in either direction

Do not skip the search because "the goals look hittable" — that's the most expensive optimism available

Do not advise signing away disagreement or rights — flag signature moments for legal review

Do not draft accusations of discrimination/retaliation — if the pattern smells like that, that's the lawyer's brief, not a check-in email

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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