personal-board-of-directors
Five standing advisors — the Operator, the Skeptic, the CFO, the Coach, the Customer — debate your decision on paper and vote. Use when asked to help me decide, pressure-test this decision, what would smart advisors say, or convene my board. Produces five distinct advisor memos, a disagreement map, a vote with a stated decision rule, and the one question to resolve before deciding.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill personal-board-of-directors --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.
# Personal Board of Directors Skill Good decisions survive five different kinds of scrutiny; most decisions get one (your own, on a good day). This skill convenes a standing board of five archetypes who each write a short memo, disagree where they honestly would, and vote — with the decision rule stated before the count. ## What This Skill Produces - **Five advisor memos** (~150 words each) in five genuinely different voices - **The disagreement map** — where they split, and what fact would resolve each split - **The vote** — with the decision rule declared first and what evidence would flip it - **The one question** to answer before committing ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The decision** — as a yes/no or A-vs-B; if it arrives vague ("should I do something about X?"), sharpen it into a decidable sentence first and confirm - **Stakes and reversibility** — what's bet, and whether it can be undone - **Constraints** — money, time, obligations, runway - **What the user is secretly hoping the answer is** (optional — the board should know the bias it's correcting) ## Framework: The Five Chairs | Advisor | Lens | Their memo must contain | Their known bias (they self
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Five Chairs
- Output Format
- Memos
- Disagreement Map
- The Vote
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the personal-board-of-directors skill do?
Five standing advisors — the Operator, the Skeptic, the CFO, the Coach, the Customer — debate your decision on paper and vote. Use when asked to help me decide, pressure-test this decision, what would smart advisors say, or convene my board. Produces five distinct advisor memos, a disagreement map, a vote with a stated decision rule, and the one question to resolve before deciding.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill personal-board-of-directors --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.