What do I need to use Statement Coach?

The draft; The program and school; The prompt and word limit; The real story.

Is Statement Coach 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.

Statement Coach

Q: How do I know the Statement Coach output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every "generic" flag quotes the actual line and explains the test it fails; Mining questions target the specific diagnosed gaps, not general biography; Fit feedback references the actual program; No output paragraph is written to be pasted into the essay.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-students

Coach a statement of purpose or personal essay to admission strength — structural diagnosis, specific feedback, and revision plans on YOUR draft; the words stay yours. Use when asked to review my personal statement, improve my SOP, give feedback on my application essay, or why is my essay generic. Produces a diagnostic against what committees actually read for, line-level feedback on the draft, a revision plan, and interview-style questions to mine for better material.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Review my personal statement.”“Improve my SOP.”“Give feedback on my application essay.”“Why is my essay generic?”

What to give it

▸The draft — or honest notes if pre-draft — coaching starts anywhere

▸The program and school — "fit" feedback is impossible without the target

▸The prompt and word limit

▸The real story — why this field, actually; the coach digs for what the draft is politely hiding

✅ 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 "generic" flag quotes the actual line and explains the test it fails

✓Mining questions target the specific diagnosed gaps, not general biography

✓Fit feedback references the actual program

✓No output paragraph is written to be pasted into the essay

✓The one-thing recommendation is concrete and structural

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not write the essay — a submitted statement in someone else's words is an integrity violation and, at interview, a trap that springs on the applicant

Do not sand off voice — quirk that reads authentic outranks polish that reads manufactured

Do not praise-pad — a diagnostic that's 80% encouragement leaves the essay 100% unchanged

Do not accept claimed qualities — push every adjective toward a scene

Do not ignore the word limit — a revision plan that doesn't end in cuts isn't a plan

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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