What do I need to use Release Day Countdown?

The release; The artist's current reach, honestly; Team of one, or help? Budget; The goal, honestly ranked.

Is Release Day Countdown 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.

Release Day Countdown

Q: How do I know the Release Day Countdown output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every platform-specific number (lead times, pitch windows, artwork; specs) carries a check-current flag — zero asserted as timeless fact; The countdown fits the real date; if the date makes editorial; pitching impossible, the plan says so and offers the honest choice.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 ✅ 2/5 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-musician

Plan an independent music release backwards from release day — the 8-week countdown with distributor upload deadlines flagged, playlist pitch windows, the pre-save decision made honestly, content batched before the chaos, and a release week that doesn't depend on luck. Use when a musician says 'I'm releasing a single/EP', 'when should I submit to playlists', 'plan my release', or uploaded to a distributor with no plan. Produces the week-by-week countdown, the asset checklist, and release-week runbook.

▶ 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

“I'm releasing a single/EP.”“Should I submit to playlists?”“Plan my release.”

What to give it

▸The release — single/EP/album, genre, done-ness of the master and artwork, the date (or "help me pick one")

▸The artist's current reach, honestly — platforms, follower counts, the mailing list if any, past release numbers

▸Team of one, or help? Budget — zero, small, or real?

▸The goal, honestly ranked — streams? local gigs? label attention? the mailing list? (The plan weights differently)

✅ 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 platform-specific number (lead times, pitch windows, artwork

✓specs) carries a check-current flag — zero asserted as timeless fact

✓The countdown fits the real date; if the date makes editorial

✓pitching impossible, the plan says so and offers the honest choice

✓(move the date or skip that channel)

✓Content is batched before week 2 in the plan — nothing creative is

✓scheduled for release week itself

✓The pay-for-playlist warning appears in the pitching plan

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not build the plan around going viral — the plan works at 40

streams and scales if lightning hits, not the reverse

Do not recommend paid playlist placement or stream-farming — flagged

as harmful (platforms penalize it), not just tacky

Do not schedule daily begging posts — the ask-budget is finite;

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="release-day-countdown"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

💬 Discussion

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