What do I need to use Template Designer?

The recurring documents; The reader's use; The pain being fixed; The mandate reality.

Is Template Designer 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.

Template Designer

Q: How do I know the Template Designer output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every section survived the recurrence test across past instances; Every placeholder is a prompt that would guide a rushed author; Fill-time beats the freeform baseline; the escape hatch exists; The filled twin ships with the blank.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Turn a document the team keeps rewriting into a template that actually helps — extract the recurring skeleton, mark what varies with real placeholder prompts, keep it lighter than the ceremony it replaces, and pilot it before decreeing it. Use when asked make a template from this doc, we write this same thing every week, standardize our status updates or briefs, or why does nobody use our templates. Produces the extracted template with prompting placeholders, the keep-it-light rules, the example-filled twin, and the adoption path.

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What to give it

▸The recurring documents — 3+ past instances of the thing being templated; extraction needs a pattern, and one document is an anecdote

▸The reader's use — what the reader does with this document (skim for risk? approve? file?) — sections serve the *reader's* recurring needs, not the writer's completeness

▸The pain being fixed — inconsistency between authors? Missing sections discovered late? Slow drafting? The template optimizes for its actual complaint

▸The mandate reality — can this be piloted, or is someone demanding a decree? (Piloted templates survive; decreed ones get malicious compliance)

✅ 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 section survived the recurrence test across past instances

✓Every placeholder is a prompt that would guide a rushed author

✓Fill-time beats the freeform baseline; the escape hatch exists

✓The filled twin ships with the blank

✓The path is pilot-then-propose, with a named maintainer

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not template from imagination — three real instances or it's speculation with headings

Do not ship label-placeholders — "[Background]" teaches nothing; the prompt is the product

Do not exceed the ceremony being replaced — heavier-than-freeform templates are adopted at gunpoint only

Do not omit the escape hatch — the first non-fitting reality kills rigid templates

Do not decree v1 — pilot friction is cheap; organizational resentment is not

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-mcp

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