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Working Agreements
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Write a team's working agreements — the small set of explicit norms (communication, meetings, decisions, conflict) that replace the assumptions people were silently violating, built from the team's actual frictions and revisited on a cadence. Use when asked create team working agreements, set norms for our new team, we keep clashing over how we work, or onboard people into how this team operates. Produces the friction-derived agreement set, the specific-behavior phrasing, the disagreement protocol, and the review cadence.
What to give it
▸The frictions, honestly — the recurring clashes ("half the team answers at 10pm and expects the same," "decisions reopen weekly," "meetings start five minutes late, always") — agreements are friction-shaped or they're decoration
▸The team's shape — size, time zones, remote/hybrid, the seniority spread; norms about availability and meetings are geometry-dependent
▸What's already tacit-and-working — the good invisible rules worth writing down before someone violates them innocently
▸The authority reality — is the lead imposing this or the team building it? (Built beats imposed by miles; the skill's process assumes a session, and the [workshop-designer](../workshop-designer/SKILL.md) silent-first mechanics run it)
✅ 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 agreement traces to a named real friction
✓Every agreement passes the newcomer-could-check test
✓The set is ≤10 with the disagreement protocol included
✓The team built it (or amended it) rather than receiving it
✓The revisit is calendared with its two questions
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not copy another team's agreements — their frictions, their fixes
Do not write values — behaviors check; values decorate
Do not legislate everything — the small set governs; the constitution gathers dust
Do not skip the conflict agreement — it's the one that carries the team when the others crack
Do not let violations ride silently — amend it or recommit to it; a dead agreement infects the set
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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