personal-operating-manual
Write the manual for how you work best — your energy, triggers, communication style, and non-negotiables — to share with a manager, team, or partner (or to know yourself). Use when asked to write my user manual, how I work best, a working-with-me guide, or help my team understand me. Produces a clear one-pager covering how you communicate, when you're at your best, what drains you, how you like feedback, and your non-negotiables — turning invisible friction into stated expectations, so people can work with you instead of around you.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill personal-operating-manual --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 Operating Manual Half of workplace and relationship friction is unspoken mismatch — you need quiet mornings, they schedule 9am calls; you want direct feedback, they hint. A "how to work with me" manual makes the invisible explicit. This writes yours: how you communicate, when you're at your best, what drains you, how you like feedback, and your hard lines — so people can adapt to how you actually work instead of guessing. ## What This Skill Produces - **How I communicate** — your preferred channels, response speed, and style (direct vs. warm, written vs. talk-it-out) - **When I'm at my best** — your energy windows and the conditions for your best work - **What drains me** — the things that wreck your focus or energy (context-switching, surprise meetings, ambiguity) - **How I like feedback** — direct, private, written, immediate — however it actually lands well for you - **My non-negotiables** — the few hard lines (protected focus time, no weekend messages, whatever's real) - **How to get the best from me** — the practical "if you do X, I'll deliver Y" ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The audience** — a manager, a whole team, a partner, or just for yo
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: Make The Invisible Explicit
- Output Format
- How to work with me — [for audience]
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
- Example Trigger Phrases
What does the personal-operating-manual skill do?
Write the manual for how you work best — your energy, triggers, communication style, and non-negotiables — to share with a manager, team, or partner (or to know yourself). Use when asked to write my user manual, how I work best, a working-with-me guide, or help my team understand me. Produces a clear one-pager covering how you communicate, when you're at your best, what drains you, how you like feedback, and your non-negotiables — turning invisible friction into stated expectations, so people can work with you instead of around you.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill personal-operating-manual --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.