# utility-pm-skill-auditor

Runs every validator across the repo, re-derives aggregate counters and surfaces cross-cutting issues that no single validator catches.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 601 installs · ★ 763
- Author: product-on-purpose
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor

## What it does

The skill dispatches the `pm-skill-auditor` sub-agent, which walks the whole repository: it invokes the enforcing validator suite, compares re-derived counters against the values declared in `CONTEXT.md`, `AGENTS.md` and `README.md`, then runs cross-cutting checks such as a skill without a command, sample gaps or orphaned family contracts. You get a report graded P0/P1/P2/P3 with a machine-readable status.

Runtime detection decides the path. On Claude with the pm-skills plugin installed it calls `@agent-pm-skills:pm-skill-auditor`. On other clients it reads `agents/pm-skill-auditor.md` and executes that body inline for the turn, following four steps: validators via Bash (canonical entry point `bash scripts/pre-tag-validate.sh`), cross-cutting checks, counter re-derivation, layered report. Scope arguments like `--scope changed`, `--since-tag v2.15.0` or `--severity-floor P1` pass through.

The auditor only detects. Fixing what it finds is your call, and a deep check of one skill against authoring conventions belongs to `utility-pm-skill-validate` instead. The inline pattern needs a client that can read a file by path, run Bash and treat the agent definition as operating instructions; when any of those is unreliable on a given client, you fall back to invoking validators by hand.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-pm-skill-auditor -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-pm-skill-auditor -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-pm-skill-auditor -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install product-on-purpose/pm-skills utility-pm-skill-auditor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-pm-skill-auditor -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills --path skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill utility-pm-skill-auditor -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/utility-pm-skill-auditor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- run the whole validator suite before tagging a release
- reconcile re-derived counters with the values declared in CONTEXT.md and AGENTS.md
- spot skills that ship without a paired slash command
- catch cross-cutting issues individual validators miss
- produce a machine-readable audit status for a pipeline

## Example prompts
- run a repo-wide audit with utility-pm-skill-auditor
- audit only what changed: --scope changed
- run the audit with --severity-floor P1

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: utility-pm-skill-auditor
description: Run a repo-wide cross-cutting governance audit via the pm-skill-auditor sub-agent. Aggregates the enforcing validator suite, re-derives aggregate counters, and surfaces cross-cutting issues no single validator catches, graded P0/P1/P2/P3 with a machine-readable status. Use for pre-release readiness checks or a periodic repo health audit.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  classification: utility
  version: "1.1.0"
  updated: 2026-06-10
  category: governance
  frameworks: [triple-diamond]
  author: product-on-purpose
---
<!-- PM-Skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills | Apache 2.0 -->
# PM Skill Auditor (Dispatch Skill)

Cross-client dispatch wrapper for the `pm-skill-auditor` sub-agent. Detects runtime; dispatches to the native sub-agent on Claude Code; reads `agents/pm-skill-auditor.md` and executes inline on non-Claude clients.

## When to Use

- You need a repo-wide audit pass: all enforcing validators, cross-cutting checks (skill-without-command, sample gaps, family contract orphans, etc.), and aggregate counter re-derivation against declared values in CONTEXT.md + AGENTS.md + README.md
- You are running on a non-Claude AI client without native pm-skill-auditor sub-agent support
- You are running on Claude Code and prefer skill-invocation semantics (e.g., for chaining inside a workflow that also uses other dispatch skills)

## When NOT to Use

- You want to review a specific PM artifact (PRD, OKR, persona) -> use `utility-pm-critic` instead
- You want to draft a CHANGELOG entry -> use `utility-pm-changelog-curator` (ships in Phase 4)
- You want to ship a release -> use `utility-pm-release-conductor` (ships in Phase 5)
- You want to FIX issues found in an audit -> the auditor is detection-only; remediation is maintainer judgment or future `pm-frontmatter-doctor` (v2.17+)
- You want a deep, single-skill check against the authoring conventions -> use `utility-pm-skill-validate`. The auditor goes wide across the catalog; it does not go deep on one skill.

## Instructions

**Runtime detection step.** Determine which AI client is invoking this skill.

### If you are running in Claude Code with the pm-skills plugin installed
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