stakeholder-engagement-advisor — Claude Code skill: what it does
Turns one stakeholder into a written engagement plan: the message, the channel, how often to show up and what happens next. Built for the talk before the big meeting.
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill stakeholder-engagement-advisor -a claude-codeWhat stakeholder-engagement-advisor does
The skill runs as a short guided conversation. Three questions cover who the person is, how much authority and exposure they carry, and the situation you are walking into. It then offers a numbered list of approaches; once you pick one, you get a plan: how to frame the key message, which medium to use and at what cadence, what each side needs from the other, plus a named next action with an owner and a deadline. Expect 15–25 minutes per person.
The method is the Adaptive Decision Ladder, with a few working ideas attached: keep your motivations separate from theirs, check that a proxy really speaks for the group they stand in for, and design outreach for high-impact, low-power people instead of waiting for them to show up. It builds on MITRE's Quickstart Stakeholder Engagement Canvas. License: CC-BY-SA-4.0.
You can hand over the situation right in the invocation. Anything you supply counts as an answer, so the advisor skips what it already has and continues from there. One run covers one stakeholder — a second name means a second run.
What it helps with
- prepare a conversation with an executive sponsor whose motives stay murky
- work out how to approach a stakeholder who could stall the roadmap
- open first contact with someone who joined the initiative midway
- give high-impact, low-power users a real voice in decisions
- align teams before a roadmap review
Example prompts for the agent
- Plan how I approach the CFO before the budget review — she has not seen the proposal yet
- A stakeholder keeps resisting this initiative and can block it. How should I open?
- Get a new executive sponsor up to speed before the launch
How to install stakeholder-engagement-advisor
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill stakeholder-engagement-advisor -a claude-code2Manually: put the files in place
~/.claude/skills/stakeholder-engagement-advisor/SKILL.mdCopy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/stakeholder-engagement-advisor/
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill stakeholder-engagement-advisor -a codex2Manually: put the files in place
.agents/skills/stakeholder-engagement-advisor/SKILL.mdFor all projects use ~/.agents/skills/
1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill stakeholder-engagement-advisor -a cursor2Manually: put the files in place
.cursor/skills/stakeholder-engagement-advisor/SKILL.mdCursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/
1GitHub CLI
gh skill install deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills stakeholder-engagement-advisor2Manually: put the files in place
.github/skills/stakeholder-engagement-advisor/SKILL.md1Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill stakeholder-engagement-advisor -a gemini-cli2Platform CLI
gemini skills install https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --path skills/stakeholder-engagement-advisorManually: put the files in place
.devin/skills/stakeholder-engagement-advisor/SKILL.mdThe legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works
Skills CLI (Vercel)
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill stakeholder-engagement-advisor -a opencodeClaude.ai
Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills
Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways
Questions about stakeholder-engagement-advisor
How do I install stakeholder-engagement-advisor in Claude Code?
Run npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill stakeholder-engagement-advisor -a claude-code. The skill file lands at ~/.claude/skills/stakeholder-engagement-advisor/SKILL.md.
What does stakeholder-engagement-advisor do?
It asks three questions about the stakeholder and your situation, offers a set of engagement approaches, then assembles a plan: message framing, medium, cadence, mutual needs and a next action with an owner and a date.
Does it work for Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI too?
Yes. Same command with a different target, for instance -a codex, -a cursor or -a gemini-cli. For GitHub Copilot the install goes through gh skill install deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills stakeholder-engagement-advisor.
