What do I need to use Thesis Outline?

The research question and (draft) answer; What exists already; Program constraints; The supervisor's known opinions (optional).

Is Thesis Outline 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.

Thesis Outline

Q: How do I know the Thesis Outline output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The thesis fits in one sentence; Every chapter has both a job and a claim — no container chapters; Handoffs are written, making the through-line inspectable; Evidence allocation shows no starving chapter.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-students

Build a defensible thesis or dissertation outline — argument-first structure, chapter by chapter, with the through-line visible. Use when asked to outline my thesis, structure my dissertation, plan my capstone, or organize my research into chapters. Produces a full outline: the one-sentence thesis, chapter map with each chapter's job and claim, evidence allocation, and the risk register of weak links an examiner would probe.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The research question and (draft) answer — even rough; the outline is built around the answer

▸What exists already — data collected, chapters drafted, the literature review's gap statement

▸Program constraints — length, chapter conventions of the field, deadline

▸The supervisor's known opinions (optional) — optional but valuable — outlines that fight the supervisor lose slowly

✅ 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.

✓The thesis fits in one sentence

✓Every chapter has both a job and a claim — no container chapters

✓Handoffs are written, making the through-line inspectable

✓Evidence allocation shows no starving chapter

✓The risk register names real probes with real shoring plans

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not structure by activity ("what I read, what I did, what I found") — structure by argument

Do not let chapter 2 be "everything I know about the field" — the literature review earns its place by establishing the gap, nothing more

Do not allocate a claim no evidence supports — flag it as a collection gap now, not a defense surprise later

Do not outline the ideal thesis — outline the one finishable with the data and months that exist

Do not hide the weakest link — it's the first thing the committee finds; better it's the best-defended

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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