What do I need to use Workshop Designer?

The artifact; The cast; The time box and the room; The pre-work tolerance.

Is Workshop 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.

Workshop Designer

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

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The artifact is concrete and its Monday user is named; Every block's output feeds the next; orphan activities were cut; Divergence starts silent; convergence uses mechanisms; Decisions land before the final-hour fatigue.

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

Design working sessions that produce artifacts, not vibes — the outcome-backwards agenda, the activity formats that beat open discussion (silent writing, dot voting, structured rounds), the energy arc, and the output-capture that survives the room. Use when asked design a workshop for X, plan our planning session, facilitate a half-day working session, or our workshops are fun but nothing comes out. Produces the workshop design: the artifact goal, the activity sequence with timings, the facilitation notes, and the capture plan.

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

What to give it

▸The artifact — pushed to concrete: "alignment on strategy" becomes "a one-page strategy statement the leads will sign" ([outline-before-prose](../outline-before-prose/SKILL.md) claim-discipline applies to workshop goals too)

▸The cast — headcount, seniority mix, the known dominators and the known silents (the design manages both), remote/hybrid reality

▸The time box and the room — 90 minutes designs differently than a day; hybrid needs its own mechanics (boards everyone can touch)

▸The pre-work tolerance — what the group will actually do beforehand (honest answer: little — design for 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.

✓The artifact is concrete and its Monday user is named

✓Every block's output feeds the next; orphan activities were cut

✓Divergence starts silent; convergence uses mechanisms

✓Decisions land before the final-hour fatigue

✓Capture has a named owner and outputs leave the room same-day

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not design forward from fun activities — backwards from the artifact or it's team-building in disguise (which is fine, but name it)

Do not open with group brainstorming — silent writing first, always

Do not converge by discussion — mechanisms converge; discussion enriches the converged

Do not schedule deciding last — tired rooms defer or decide badly

Do not let the boards die in the room — un-captured workshops happened only emotionally

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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