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Proposal Skeleton
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Structure an internal proposal that gets a decision — the problem-cost-options-recommendation-ask spine, the objection pre-handling that shortens the meeting, and the reversibility framing that makes yes easier. Use when asked write a proposal for the new tool or process or hire, how do I pitch this internally, structure my case for the change, or my proposals keep dying in review. Produces the proposal skeleton filled from the actual case, the objections table, the decision-sized ask, and the one-page discipline.
What to give it
▸The change and the evidence — what's being proposed and what supports it (the pilot data, the incident, the quote comparisons); skeletons organize evidence, not enthusiasm
▸The cost of the status quo — the number or consequence that makes "do nothing" a choice with a price; without it, inertia wins by default and deserves to
▸The decision-maker and their dialect — who says yes, and what they weigh (money? risk? team health?) — the recommendation argues in their currency ([executive-summary](../executive-summary/SKILL.md) audience rules apply)
▸The honest alternatives — including the strongest version of "do nothing" and the rival option a smart skeptic would raise
✅ 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 status quo carries an honest price
✓Every option including do-nothing got its best case
✓The recommendation argues in the decision-maker's stated currency
✓Risks are conceded with mitigations before the reader raises them
✓The ask is pilot-sized, dated, and names its reversal path
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not propose against an unpriced status quo — free inertia beats every paid change
Do not strawman the alternatives — the detected strawman costs more credibility than the rival option ever would
Do not ask for the end-state — ask for the smallest decidable step toward it
Do not hide the risks — the reader's discovered objection beats your conceded one, in their favor
Do not exceed a page in the body — the appendix exists so the spine can breathe
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:
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