What do I need to use Referral Request?

Who the person is; The role; The sender's one-line fit; The channel.

Is Referral Request 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.

Referral Request

Q: How do I know the Referral Request output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The ask matches the relationship strength; Under 120 words; The role link or ID is included; The easy out is present.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-04 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cv

Write a short message asking someone at a target company for a referral or a conversation, sized to how well the person knows them, with an easy way to say no. Use when asked how do I ask for a referral, message someone at Google about a job, ask a former colleague to refer me, or write a LinkedIn message to an employee. Produces the message for the right channel and relationship strength, a ready-to-forward blurb the referrer can paste, and a single follow-up. For general networking, see networking-outreach.

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

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Help me ask a former colleague at Stripe for a referral.”“Write a LinkedIn message to someone on the team I'm applying to.”“How do I ask my university alumni at Tencent for a referral?”“帮我写一条内推请求的微信消息。”

What to give it

▸Who the person is — and how well the sender knows them: close, former colleague, alumni or loose connection, or stranger

▸The role — , with the link or job ID

▸The sender's one-line fit — why they are a strong candidate

▸The channel

✅ 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 ask matches the relationship strength

✓Under 120 words

✓The role link or ID is included

✓The easy out is present

✓The blurb can be pasted without editing

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Asking a stranger for a referral** in the first message.

**Long life stories.** The reader decides in a few seconds.

**Attaching a CV unasked** to a loose connection.

**More than one follow-up.**

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

Related skills

🔌 Embed this skill

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

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

💬 Discussion

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