Overview
lifecycle-play-advisor is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by deanpeters. Its author describes it as: “Diagnose where a product sits in its lifecycle and which play fits — extend, replace, or retire. Use when a product is fading and you need the call, not just the worry.”. 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 lifecycle-play-advisor does
Work out what to do with a product that has stopped growing. Three plays are available — **extend**, **replace**, **retire** — and this skill gets you to the right one through diagnosis rather than debate, then hands you to whichever skill executes it.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for lifecycle-play-advisor is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- The Three Plays
- Diagnosis Before Play
- The Extension Bias
- Anti-Patterns (what this is NOT)
- Facilitation Source of Truth
- Application
- Question 1 of 4 — What product, and what makes you think something's wrong?
- Question 2 of 4 — Where is it actually in the lifecycle?
- Question 3 of 4 — What's actually driving the pressure?
Installation
Add lifecycle-play-advisor to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-SkillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license for this repository (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
Strengths
- Ships in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, an established project with 6,527 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Things to check
- No license declared — confirm terms with the author before reuse
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does lifecycle-play-advisor do?
- Diagnose where a product sits in its lifecycle and which play fits — extend, replace, or retire. Use when a product is fading and you need the call, not just the worry.
- How do I install lifecycle-play-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 lifecycle-play-advisor free to use?
- lifecycle-play-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.
- Which agents does lifecycle-play-advisor work with?
- lifecycle-play-advisor lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does lifecycle-play-advisor come from?
- lifecycle-play-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.