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Statement of Work
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-28
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-consulting
Write a tight Statement of Work (SOW) that prevents scope creep and payment disputes. Use when asked to write a SOW, a scope of work, a project agreement, or to formalise what was agreed after a proposal. Produces an SOW — scope (and explicit exclusions), deliverables with acceptance criteria, timeline & milestones, payment schedule, assumptions, change-control, and terms. The contract layer after the proposal sells.
What to give it
▸The engagement — parties, and what was agreed (often from a [`consulting-proposal`](../consulting-proposal/SKILL.md)).
▸Deliverables — the concrete outputs and how "done" is judged.
▸Timeline & dependencies — milestones, and what you need *from the client* and by when.
▸Commercials — total fee, payment schedule/triggers, and rate for out-of-scope/change work.
✅ 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.
✓Scope includes an explicit "out of scope / exclusions" list
✓Every deliverable has objective acceptance criteria and a review/sign-off window
✓Payment is tied to milestones/dates with late terms (and a deposit where apt)
✓Client dependencies are listed, with the timeline consequence if they slip
✓A written change-control process with a change rate is defined
✓Assumptions the price depends on are stated
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not leave scope open-ended — without exclusions, clients reasonably assume everything is included
Do not omit acceptance criteria — "deliver a website" with no bar means endless revisions
Do not skip change control — it's the clause that turns scope creep into billable change requests
Do not ignore client dependencies — if their delay silently becomes your problem, you eat the cost
Do not present this as final legal advice — recommend counsel review for significant contracts
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
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