Understand the PM-to-Director transition through altitude and horizon thinking. Use when diagnosing scope, time-horizon, or leadership-level gaps.
eol-readiness-advisor
eol-readiness-advisor is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by deanpeters. Its author describes it as: “Run a go/no-go assessment for retiring a product or feature, then right-size the effort. Use when someone says "we should probably kill this" and nobody has made the call.”. The project has 6.5k stars on GitHub and ships custom license terms, so review them before reuse. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills`.
What eol-readiness-advisor does
Decide whether a product or feature should actually be retired — and if so, how much machinery the retirement deserves. This skill produces a go/no-go verdict with named evidence, an **intensity level** you choose, and a short list of the obligations that will bite you if ignored.
Installation
Add eol-readiness-advisor to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-SkillsAlways review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.
What's inside
The SKILL.md for eol-readiness-advisor is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- The Right-Sizing Dial
- Lifecycle Gates (shared vocabulary)
- The Four Retire Signals
- The Four Hold Signals
- Anti-Patterns (what this is NOT)
- Application
- Question 1 of 4 — What's under review, and what triggered this?
- Question 2 of 4 — What's the blast radius?
- Question 3 of 4 — Set the intensity
When to use it
Reach for eol-readiness-advisor when you want productivity help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.
Strengths
- Ships in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, an established project with 6,527 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained (recent commits)
Things to check
- No license declared — confirm terms with the author before reuse
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does eol-readiness-advisor do?
- Run a go/no-go assessment for retiring a product or feature, then right-size the effort. Use when someone says "we should probably kill this" and nobody has made the call.
- How do I install eol-readiness-advisor?
- Run /plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills before installing.
- Is eol-readiness-advisor free to use?
- eol-readiness-advisor is publicly available on GitHub, but deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
- Where does eol-readiness-advisor come from?
- eol-readiness-advisor ships inside deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 6,527 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
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