Simulate a school-place appeal panel before you face the real one — the two questions the panel is actually deciding, the probe that separates grounds from feelings, the prejudice balance your case must tip — run against your actual reasons, with a debrief on which answers built a case and which only expressed one. Use when asked to prepare a school appeal, we did not get our school place, rehearse the appeal hearing, or what does the panel ask. Produces the hearing transcript with the panel's deliberation notes, your case restructured into grounds with evidence, and the questions to put to the admission authority. Jurisdiction-varying; verify your local process. Not legal advice.
▸The refusal — which school, the reason given, your position on the waiting list if known
▸Your reasons, all of them — the ones you think are strong and the ones that are just true: distance, siblings, medical or social needs, childcare logistics, what is specific about *this* school
▸The evidence you hold — letters from professionals, the journey worked out, anything in writing; and what exists only as your word
▸The process you are in — country and school type, since appeal rules differ sharply; the simulation uses a common two-stage shape and flags where yours may differ
▸The school's stated case — class sizes, published admission number, any prejudice claims made
✅ 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.
✓Stage one is audited before any stage-two argument is rehearsed
✓Every reason is marked particular or general, and the debrief is honest about which
✓The paper-beats-testimony beat appears with the same point landing differently
✓The authority's prejudice case is tested with specific numbers requested
✓Jurisdiction variability is flagged prominently, not in passing
✓The specialist-route trigger appears where the facts warrant it
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not rehearse eloquence about feelings — the panel's sympathy is real and already priced in; grounds are the scarce commodity
Do not coach criticism of the allocated school — preference framing loses appeals that fit framing wins
Do not state appeal law as universal — the two-stage shape is a scaffold, and the skill must keep saying so
Do not let a missing document be papered over with a better sentence — the debrief's job is the evidence list
Do not stay in character in the debrief
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