PM Superpowers 🧭
Turn proven product strategy frameworks into structured AI workflows you can run inside Claude Code.
Skills · Getting started · Companion plugin · Frameworks · Contributing · MIT
Eleven skills, one sub-agent, zero prompt engineering.
What is this, really?
It's a Claude Code plugin: a set of skills, one sub-agent, and a shared library of framework definitions, packaged so they trigger naturally in conversation instead of living in a doc you have to remember to open.
In practice it feels like having a strategy-minded chief of staff who's read VRIO, aggregation theory, and every pre-mortem post-mortem, and asks the right follow-up question instead of just generating a wall of text. You don't copy-paste a prompt — you run /strategy or say "help me prioritize my backlog," and the skill walks you through the framework step by step.
Most AI-for-PM tools stop at "generate a PRD." They help you write faster, not think straighter. PM Superpowers is grounded in named, proven strategy frameworks — the AI doesn't freestyle; it interviews you the way a sharp analyst would, then structures the output around the framework's actual dimensions.
Stuff you do with it
- Get a VRIO read on your differentiation before it becomes a slide in the board deck — Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization, applied to your actual product.
- Stress-test a launch with a pre-mortem before the launch stress-tests you — Tigers, Paper Tigers, and Elephants, named and owned.
- Run competitive research without opening fifteen tabs — a sub-agent gathers the intelligence, you review the synthesis.
- Turn a strategy doc into a briefing your VP will actually read — audience-specific FAQs and workshop agendas generated from the artifacts you already built.
- Log a decision the moment you make it — reasoning, alternatives, and trade-offs captured while you still remember why, not reconstructed from Slack three months later.
Getting started
I just want to try a skill
# Add the marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add aniganti/pm-superpowers
# Install the plugin
claude plugin install pm-superpowers
Then run /strategy to kick off a full strategy session, or just ask "help me prioritize my backlog."
Live X/Twitter research is a separate, optional companion — see Companion plugin. You do not need it to use PM Superpowers.
I want to add a skill or framework
See CONTRIBUTING.md — new skills, new frameworks, agents, and bug fixes are all welcome. Direct pushes to main aren't accepted; everything goes through review.
What's inside
Strategic advisor skills
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
strategy | Full 6-step interactive workflow: market analysis → problem space → strategic pillars (VRIO) → design/technical alignment → vision/mission/goals → communicate |
competitive-landscape | Standalone competitor analysis with automated web research via sub-agent |
vrio-analysis | VRIO framework competitive advantage evaluation — Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization — applied to your specific product |
strategic-moat | Defensibility assessment across 8 moat types including network effects, feedback loops, and ecosystem lock-in |
product-ecosystem | Aggregation theory and value chain analysis for platform/ecosystem strategy |
Planning & execution skills
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
pre-mortem | Launch readiness risk analysis using the Tigers / Paper Tigers / Elephants framework |
prioritization | Framework-driven feature/initiative prioritization using RICE, ICE, or weighted scoring — grounded in strategic pillars |
decision-log | Structured capture of product decisions with reasoning, alternatives, evidence, and trade-offs — builds institutional memory |
Alignment & communication skills
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
stakeholder-alignment | Transforms strategy artifacts into tailored briefing docs, audience-specific FAQs, and workshop agendas for each stakeholder group |
verification | Quality gate that re-reads any artifact against structured checklists and issues a PASS / PASS WITH WARNINGS / FAIL verdict |
Utility skills
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
prompt-builder | Guided AI prompt creation through 9 structured questions — role, audience, outcome, obstacles, tone, task, context, examples, format |
using-pm-superpowers | Interactive guide to all available skills, recommended workflows, and output save locations |
Sub-agents
| Agent | What it does |
|---|---|
competitive-researcher | Automated competitive intelligence gathering via web research |
Companion plugin
hermes-tweet is an optional, documentation-only companion. Installing it in Claude Code does not add X/Twitter tools and does not run live research.
Live work requires a separate Hermes Agent session with the native Hermes Tweet plugin. That runtime uses Xquik, a third-party paid API (account, API key, and sufficient plan or credits). PM Superpowers does not provide or operate it. Xquik is not affiliated with this project or with X Corp.
| Plugin | Skill | What it does |
|---|---|---|
hermes-tweet | social-signal-intelligence | Guides X/Twitter launch monitoring, competitive listening, and evidence capture in Hermes — then you feed that evidence into the skills above. |
# Guidance only — does not add tweet_* tools to Claude Code
claude plugin install hermes-tweet
# Live research: native Hermes plugin + optional PyPI fallback
hermes plugins install Xquik-dev/hermes-tweet --enable
uv pip install --python ~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/python hermes-tweet
Keep XQUIK_API_KEY in the Hermes runtime, not in chat, prompts, or this repo. See plugins/hermes-tweet/README.md for setup and safety defaults.
Available today · Being sharpened · Under consideration
| ✅ Available today | 🚧 Being sharpened | 💭 Under consideration |
|---|---|---|
| 11 skills across strategy, planning, and alignment | Deeper workflow chaining between skills (auto-suggest next step) | Skills for OKR authoring and quarterly planning |
| 1 sub-agent for competitive research | Richer verification checklists per artifact type | Multi-product / portfolio-level strategy rollups |
| Optional docs-only companion for Hermes X/Twitter research | More worked examples in references/ | Native integrations with roadmap tools (Jira, Linear) |
Marketplace install via claude plugin |
The 💭 column is intent, not a promise — see CONTRIBUTING.md if you want to help build it.
Two little stories
The QBR nobody dreaded. A PM runs competitive-landscape, then vrio-analysis on the same product. Twenty minutes later they have a defensibility argument built on named advantages, not adjectives. strategic-moat adds the eight-moat check. By the time strategy synthesizes it into pillars, the QBR deck writes itself — and survives the first hard question.
The launch that didn't blow up. Two weeks before ship, a PM runs pre-mortem. The skill surfaces three Tigers (real risks), two Paper Tigers (looked scary, aren't), and one Elephant nobody wanted to name out loud — a dependency on a team that hasn't confirmed capacity. It gets named. stakeholder-alignment turns the findings into a one-pager for the exec review. The launch ships on time, because the risk got caught in week two instead of week six.
Recommended workflows
Full Strategy Pipeline
competitive-landscape → vrio-analysis → strategic-moat → strategy → pre-mortem
Each skill's output feeds into the next. Start with external landscape, move to internal capabilities, synthesize into strategy, then stress-test.
Launch Readiness
pre-mortem → stakeholder-alignment
Decision Capture
[any analysis skill] → decision-log → stakeholder-alignment
Prioritization
strategy → prioritization → stakeholder-alignment
Social signal → strategy evidence
[Hermes + hermes-tweet] → competitive-landscape / pre-mortem / decision-log / prioritization
Capture public X/Twitter evidence in Hermes, then bring it into Claude Code as source material. Do not expect live tweet_* tools here.
Run verification after any of these before sharing artifacts with stakeholders.
Where outputs are saved
All artifacts are saved to the docs/ directory:
| Skill | Save Location |
|---|---|
| strategy | docs/strategies/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md |
| competitive-landscape | docs/competitive-analyses/YYYY-MM-DD-competitive-landscape-<name>.md |
| vrio-analysis | docs/vrio-analyses/YYYY-MM-DD-vrio-<product-name>.md |
| strategic-moat | docs/strategic-moat/YYYY-MM-DD-moat-<product-name>.md |
| product-ecosystem | docs/ecosystem-strategies/YYYY-MM-DD-ecosystem-strategy-<name>.md |
| pre-mortem | docs/pre-mortems/YYYY-MM-DD-pre-mortem-<name>.md |
| prompt-builder | docs/prompts/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md |
| stakeholder-alignment | docs/stakeholder-alignment/YYYY-MM-DD-alignment-<topic>.md |
| decision-log | docs/decisions/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md |
| prioritization | docs/prioritization/YYYY-MM-DD-prioritization-<topic>.md |
Architecture
pm-superpowers/
├── .claude-plugin/
│ └── marketplace.json # Root marketplace manifest
├── plugins/
│ ├── hermes-tweet/ # Optional docs-only companion (not live X tools)
│ │ ├── .claude-plugin/
│ │ │ └── plugin.json
│ │ └── skills/
│ │ └── social-signal-intelligence/
│ └── pm-superpowers/
│ ├── .claude-plugin/
│ │ └── plugin.json # Plugin manifest
│ ├── agents/ # Sub-agent definitions
│ ├── skills/ # SKILL.md per skill (the core logic)
│ └── commands/ # Slash command definitions
└── references/ # Shared framework definitions (VRIO, moats, etc.)
Each skill follows a consistent structure: domain context → instructions → interactive process steps → structured output format. Skills include stopping conditions, red flags/anti-patterns, completion requirements, and workflow chaining to naturally guide PMs to the next relevant analysis.
Plugin marketplace, not a prompt library. Most PM-for-AI repos are flat collections of markdown templates. This is a proper Claude Code plugin with manifests, a sub-agent, and commands — it installs cleanly, triggers naturally, and composes with other tools.
What this is not
- Not a PRD generator. Plenty of tools already do that well. This one exists for the thinking that has to happen before the PRD.
- Not a live X/Twitter client.
hermes-tweetin this marketplace is workflow documentation. Live reads and actions run in Hermes Agent via Xquik, a third-party paid API. - Not a replacement for your judgment. The frameworks structure the analysis and ask the questions you'd otherwise forget to ask. You still own the call.
- Not gospel. VRIO, RICE, the Tigers/Paper Tigers/Elephants framework — these are starting points with decades of use behind them, not the only lens worth applying.
- Not finished. New skills and sharper frameworks are still landing — see the table above.
PM Superpowers 🧭
MIT · Built by Ani Ganti, Principal PM at Wrapbook