SKILL.md
PM Critic (Dispatch Skill)
This skill is a cross-client dispatch wrapper for the pm-critic sub-agent. It exists so that users on non-Claude clients can run adversarial review with the same intent as Claude Code users, without depending on native plugin sub-agent infrastructure.
Per master plan D11 (amended) + D30, sub-agents are a Claude Code plugin feature. Non-Claude clients (Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI) cannot natively load agents/pm-critic.md. This skill bridges the gap.
When to Use
- You want adversarial review of a PM artifact (PRD, OKR set, persona, lean canvas, meeting recap, interview synthesis, problem statement, hypothesis, edge case catalog, retrospective, etc.)
- You are running on a non-Claude AI client and the
pm-criticsub-agent is not natively available - You are running on Claude Code and prefer skill-invocation semantics over sub-agent semantics (e.g., for consistency across a multi-step workflow that mixes skills and sub-agent intents)
When NOT to Use
- You want a structural lint / repo-level audit -> use
utility-pm-skill-auditor(audits skills + repo state) instead - You want to author an artifact (this skill only reviews) -> use the appropriate phase skill (deliver-prd, foundation-okr-writer, etc.)
- You want code review -> use a code-review-specific tool (this skill is for PM artifacts)
- You want to enforce style rules like em-dash sweep -> that is
pm-release-conductor's G0 gate, not this skill