What do I need to use Year in Review?

The raw material; The domains you care about; How last year's goals went; Constraints for next year.

Is Year in Review 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.

Year in Review

Q: How do I know the Year in Review output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The review lists what actually happened before evaluating it; The energy audit is present and specific — not skipped; Misses get an actionable reason, not self-blame; There is exactly one theme, not a scattered list.

🔵 Stable 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-career

Run an honest personal year-in-review and set next year's direction — wins, misses, an energy audit, and one theme, not a resolution list that dies in February. Use when asked for a personal year in review, a yearly reflection, to reflect on the past year, or plan next year. Produces the structured retrospective (what worked, what didn't, what you learned), an energy audit of what gave vs. drained you, the honest misses, and a single theme with a few concrete commitments. Personal, not corporate.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“Run a personal year in review with me.”“Help me reflect on this year and plan next year.”“I want a yearly reflection — not just resolutions.”“Do an energy audit of my year and give me one theme.”

What to give it

▸The raw material — highs, lows, big changes, and anything you're proud of or avoiding (a brain-dump is fine)

▸The domains you care about — so the review reflects your life, not a generic template

▸How last year's goals went — if you set any (be honest about the gap)

▸Constraints for next year — anything fixed (a move, a baby, a health issue) that shapes what's realistic

✅ 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 review lists what actually happened before evaluating it

✓The energy audit is present and specific — not skipped

✓Misses get an actionable reason, not self-blame

✓There is exactly one theme, not a scattered list

✓Commitments are few, concrete, and tied to the theme

✓Next-year plan respects the stated constraints

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**A highlight reel** that skips the misses — the review's value is in the honesty.

**Twelve resolutions** with no organising theme — they compete and die.

**"I was lazy"** as a reason — find the real constraint.

**Vague commitments** ("get healthier") with no checkable action.

**Ignoring energy** — the most predictive signal, most often left out.

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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🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

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<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

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