passive-income-reality-check
Cut through passive-income hype to what's actually realistic for you — the real effort, capital, and risk behind each option, and which (if any) fit your situation. Use when asked how do I make passive income, is passive income real, best passive income ideas, or help me build income streams. Produces an honest teardown of the popular passive-income options (what they really require, how 'passive' they actually are, typical returns and risks), a match to your capital/skills/time, the scams and get-rich-quick traps to avoid, and a grounded next step — replacing the fantasy with a realistic path
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill passive-income-reality-check --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.
# Passive-Income Reality Check "Passive income" is the internet's favorite fantasy — most of what's sold as passive is either a job in disguise, requires serious capital, or is a course selling you the dream. This gives the honest version: what each popular option *actually* requires (effort, money, risk), how passive it really is, and which — if any — fit your situation. The goal is a realistic path, not another rabbit hole. Not financial advice. ## What This Skill Produces - **The honest teardown** — the popular options (dividends/investing, rentals, digital products, content, lending, a business) with what each *really* requires in capital, effort, and time, and how passive it actually is - **Risk & realistic returns** — the real risk and typical (not hyped) returns of each, including the ways they lose money - **The fit** — which options match your actual capital, skills, and time (most people don't have the capital for the "easy" ones) - **The traps** — the get-rich-quick schemes, "passive income" courses, and outright scams to avoid - **A grounded next step** — the most realistic option for you and how to test it small ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **You
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: Reality Over Hype
- Output Format
- Passive income reality: capital [x] · skills [y] · time [z]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
- Example Trigger Phrases
What does the passive-income-reality-check skill do?
Cut through passive-income hype to what's actually realistic for you — the real effort, capital, and risk behind each option, and which (if any) fit your situation. Use when asked how do I make passive income, is passive income real, best passive income ideas, or help me build income streams. Produces an honest teardown of the popular passive-income options (what they really require, how 'passive' they actually are, typical returns and risks), a match to your capital/skills/time, the scams and get-rich-quick traps to avoid, and a grounded next step — replacing the fantasy with a realistic path
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill passive-income-reality-check --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 1,277 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.