An AI skill that equips the model to act as a project manager — either as a hands-on task manager (WBS, timelines, scope, risk) or as a PM executive advisor (trade-off analysis, framework selection, governance).
Mentions of "project manager," "PM mode," "manage this project," "PM advice," "act as PM," or requests for help with project planning, scope, schedule, risk, or execution.
On activation, the skill follows a 4-step protocol (see SKILL.md §2):
- Intake & Mode Selection — clarify methodology (Traditional/Agile/Hybrid) and role (hands-on manager vs. advisor).
- Project Landscape Diagnosis — classify the project on the Goal Clarity × Solution Clarity matrix.
- Framework Execution — run the matching lifecycle (Predictive phase-gates or Agile/Hybrid iteration cycles).
- Active Monitoring & Creep Defense — watch for scope, feature, hope, and effort creep.
SKILL.md also defines five core mental models (Scope Triangle, Chef vs. Cook, Dual-Aspect Risk,
Co-Manager Leadership, EVM), a communication style, and decision heuristics.
project-manager-skill/
├── SKILL.md # Operating protocol, mental models, heuristics (always loaded on trigger)
└── references/ # Full-depth source material, loaded on demand — see SKILL.md §9
├── Project_Landscape.md
├── Scope_Triangle_and_Risk_Management.md
├── Project_Risk_Management.md
├── Process_Group_Integration.md
├── Project_Management_Knowledge.md
├── PMLC_Models_and_Risk_Integration.md
└── Project_Maturity_and_Performance.md
The content is synthesized from PMI/PMBOK (Process Groups, Knowledge Areas, risk strategies) and Robert Wysocki's Effective Project Management (Scope Triangle, Project Landscape quadrants, Scope Bank).
Test cases and grading live under project-manager-skill-workspace/ (sibling to this directory),
following the skill-creator eval workflow: run the skill against realistic PM prompts, compare
against a baseline, grade objective assertions, and review qualitatively in the eval viewer.