director-readiness-advisor — Claude Code skill: PM-to-Director

What director-readiness-advisor does

This skill runs a conversation instead of handing you a checklist. It first asks which stage you are at: getting ready for the jump, sitting in interviews, freshly appointed, or already in the job with something off. Then it asks up to three follow-up questions and returns 3–5 numbered recommendations matched to your answers.

You pick how the session runs: one question at a time, a context dump up front, or a best-guess pass for the most common case — a director a few months in. Underneath sits the Altitude & Horizon model: the shift in scope and time horizon, the waiter-versus-restaurant-owner distinction, four transition zones, and named failure modes such as Hero Syndrome and Allergic to Process. The full model lives in the companion skill at skills/altitude-horizon-framework/SKILL.md, and the dialogue protocol comes from workshop-facilitation.

Expect roughly 10–15 minutes. The session goes better when you state your stage and the friction you feel right away; start it with no arguments and it will ask about the stage itself.