capacity-planning
Produce a capacity planning document for a service covering traffic forecasts, resource requirements, and scaling strategy. Use when asked to plan infrastructure capacity, forecast resource needs, model traffic growth, define scaling strategy, or produce a capacity review for a service. Produces a structured capacity plan covering current baseline metrics, growth projections, resource requirements per tier, scaling strategy, cost projections, capacity triggers, and an infrastructure action roadmap.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill capacity-planning --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.
# Capacity Planning Skill Produce a complete capacity planning document for a service. Capacity planning is not about predicting the future exactly — it is about understanding current headroom, modelling growth, and ensuring the team takes infrastructure action before a constraint becomes an incident. A good capacity plan answers: what is running out first, how long before it runs out, what does it cost to fix it, and who decides when to act. ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not already provided: - **Service name and description** — what the service does and who depends on it - **Current traffic and usage metrics** — requests per second (or per day), active users, data volume — whatever units are most natural for this service - **Current resource utilisation** — CPU %, memory %, disk usage, connection pool utilisation, DB query throughput - **Growth rate or projections** — historical growth rate, or known upcoming events (product launch, sales cycle, seasonal peak) - **Tech stack and infrastructure** — cloud provider, compute type (VMs, containers, serverless), database, caching layer, CDN - **Cost constraints** — current infrastructure spend, acceptable cost ceiling, or target
- Required Inputs
- Output Format
- 1. Executive Summary
- 2. Current Baseline
- Traffic
- Compute
- Database
- Cache
- Storage / Object Store
- Cost Baseline
- 3. Growth Projections
- Assumptions
- Traffic Forecast
- Capacity Headroom Analysis
What does the capacity-planning skill do?
Produce a capacity planning document for a service covering traffic forecasts, resource requirements, and scaling strategy. Use when asked to plan infrastructure capacity, forecast resource needs, model traffic growth, define scaling strategy, or produce a capacity review for a service. Produces a structured capacity plan covering current baseline metrics, growth projections, resource requirements per tier, scaling strategy, cost projections, capacity triggers, and an infrastructure action roadmap.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill capacity-planning --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.