async-instead
Convert a meeting into async work that actually decides — the doc-plus-deadline format that replaces the room, the comment-window rules, the decision-closure step that async usually fumbles, and the honest test for what still needs synchronous. Use when asked can this meeting be async, replace our status meeting with a doc, run this decision without a call, or async isn't working for us. Produces the conversion design, the async artifact format, the closure protocol, and the still-needs-a-room list.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill async-instead --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Async Instead Skill "This meeting could have been an email" is true more often than the email would have worked — because async fails without structure: the doc nobody read, the thread that discussed forever and decided never. A working conversion replaces the meeting's *functions*, not just its slot: information transfer becomes a doc with a read-by date; discussion becomes a bounded comment window; decision becomes an explicit closure step with a named decider and a deadline — the part async most often fumbles and the part this skill enforces. And some things genuinely need rooms; the honest list is part of the design. ## What This Skill Produces - **The conversion design** — the meeting's functions mapped to async mechanisms, with owners and deadlines - **The artifact format** — the update-doc or decision-doc template that carries the load - **The closure protocol** — how the async thread *ends*: the decider, the deadline, the decision recorded - **The still-sync list** — what this meeting does that async can't, and the smaller room that remains ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The meeting being converted** — its functions in honest proportion (how much st
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Conversion Rules
- Output Format
- Function Map
- The Artifact
- Closure Protocol
- Still Sync
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the async-instead skill do?
Convert a meeting into async work that actually decides — the doc-plus-deadline format that replaces the room, the comment-window rules, the decision-closure step that async usually fumbles, and the honest test for what still needs synchronous. Use when asked can this meeting be async, replace our status meeting with a doc, run this decision without a call, or async isn't working for us. Produces the conversion design, the async artifact format, the closure protocol, and the still-needs-a-room list.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill async-instead --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.