What do I need to use Pitch Vs Teach?

The success question; The audience's starting state; The existing deck, if any; The time slot.

Is Pitch Vs Teach 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.

Pitch Vs Teach

Q: How do I know the Pitch Vs Teach output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The success question was answered before structure was touched; Pitch verdicts produce an ask; teach verdicts produce practice/application; Mode-confusion tells are cited from actual slides; Splits are sequenced segments with an announced seam, never a blend.

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

Know which talk you're giving — the pitch (drive one decision) vs. the teach (build understanding) — because mixing their structures fails both, and most bad presentations are one wearing the other's clothes. Use when asked is this a pitch or a training, my informative deck didn't land the ask, my pitch felt like a lecture, or structure this talk for the right job. Produces the mode diagnosis, the structural implications, the mixed-mandate split, and the mode-check on an existing deck.

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What to give it

▸The success question — "if this goes perfectly, what happens afterward?" A decision made → pitch. People operating differently → teach. Both answers → the split, and the order matters

▸The audience's starting state — a pitch to people who don't understand the domain needs a teaching *segment* (not a teaching structure); a training to skeptics needs a pitch *opening* (why learn this)

▸The existing deck, if any — mode-checks work on real slides, and the tells are findable

▸The time slot — teaches need more time than pitches; a 15-minute slot can pitch or orient, never train

✅ 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 success question was answered before structure was touched

✓Pitch verdicts produce an ask; teach verdicts produce practice/application

✓Mode-confusion tells are cited from actual slides

✓Splits are sequenced segments with an announced seam, never a blend

✓The time slot supports the diagnosed mode's real needs

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not build "informative" pitches — a pitch without an ask is a lecture with an agenda

Do not persuade in a training — advocacy energy poisons the trust that teaching runs on

Do not balance a pitch into neutrality — the risks slide is where balance lives; the thesis is not

Do not blend mixed mandates — split, sequence, announce the seam

Do not let the room diagnose the mode in Q&A — "what do you want from us?" is the autopsy question

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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