eol-process
Run a product sunset end to end — decide, align, plan, prepare, announce, close. Use when you need the whole EOL process, not just one artifact.
Profile →npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill eol-process --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.
# EOL Process ## Purpose Run a product retirement end to end: decide whether to do it, align the people who can stop it, build the operational plan, ready the teams who will face customers, announce it, and close it out properly. Six phases with decision points between them. The governing goal, and the sentence worth keeping in your head the whole way through: **lose the product without losing the customer.** Most of what follows exists to protect the second half of that sentence. This is an orchestration skill. It doesn't replace the artifact skills — it tells you which one to reach for, when, and what has to be true before you move on. ## Input **Works best with:** The product being retired and where you currently are — considering it, decided, mid-plan, or already announced and struggling. **Also useful:** Scale (customers, revenue, contracts), whether a replacement exists, and who already knows. Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask. **Arriving empty-handed? That works too.** The process opens by establis
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- The Six Phases
- This Is a Route, Not a Pipeline
- Right-Size the Whole Process
- Entering Mid-Stream
- Facilitation Source of Truth
- Anti-Patterns (what this is NOT)
- Application
- Phase 1: Decide
- Activities
- Outputs
- Decision Point 1: Is this a Go, and is the landing place real?
What does the eol-process skill do?
Run a product sunset end to end — decide, align, plan, prepare, announce, close. Use when you need the whole EOL process, not just one artifact.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill eol-process --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 deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, a repository with 6,444 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.