Agent skill

Eol Readiness Advisor

by deanpeters in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills

Run a go/no-go assessment for retiring a product or feature, then right-size the effort.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Eol Readiness Advisor

skills CLI
$ npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill eol-readiness-advisor -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills eol-readiness-advisor --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/eol-readiness-advisor .claude/skills/eol-readiness-advisor && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
eol-readiness-advisor
GitHub stars
7.2k
Token cost
~5.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,876 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
75
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Run a go/no-go assessment for retiring a product or feature, then right-size the effort.

  • Works in 4 steps: Financial viability — costs exceed… → Strategic alignment — conflicts with… → Solution replacement — an internal… → …
  • Someone says we should probably kill this and nobody has made the call
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Input, Key Concepts and Application, plus 3 more sections
  • Reaches github.com

What it does

Eol Readiness Advisor is an agent skill from deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills. Run a go/no-go assessment for retiring a product or feature, then right-size the effort. Use when someone says "we should probably kill this" and nobody has made the call.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering Feature launches and release readiness. The repository describes itself as: Product Management skills framework built on battle-tested methods for Claude Code, Cowork, Codex, and AI agents.

When your agent uses it

  • Someone says we should probably kill this and nobody has made the call
  • Tasks that involve Feature launches and release readiness

Example prompts

  • “we should probably kill this”
  • “/eol-readiness-advisor”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Financial viability — costs exceed revenue; support load drains disproportionate resources
  2. Strategic alignment — conflicts with company direction; you are exiting this market
  3. Solution replacement — an internal successor supersedes it; you're consolidating platforms
  4. Market irrelevance — needs shifted, technology moved, the core problem stopped existing

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1b5a524. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • github.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Eol Readiness Advisor loads about 5.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 48 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,876 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~48
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,876 words (~5,386 tokens).

“Decide whether a product or feature should actually be retired — and if so, how much machinery the retirement deserves. This skill produces a go/no-go verdict with named evidence, an intensity level you choose, and a short list of the…”

— opening of SKILL.md by deanpeters, Custom licence
name
eol-readiness-advisor
argument-hint
[product or feature under EOL consideration, and what triggered it]
intent
Structured go/no-go assessment for sunsetting a product or feature. Determines whether EOL is the right call, how intense the sunset effort needs to be, and…
type
interactive
theme
eol-transition
best_for
Deciding whether a declining product should actually be retired — or held, harvested, or fixed, Right-sizing an EOL effort so a feature deprecation doesn't…
scenarios
Leadership keeps saying we should kill this module but nobody will make the call — help me assess it, We're retiring a hardware line with service contracts…
estimated_time
15-25 min

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/eol-readiness-advisor of deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1b5a524

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Questions about Eol Readiness Advisor

What does Eol Readiness Advisor do?

Run a go/no-go assessment for retiring a product or feature, then right-size the effort. Eol Readiness Advisor is an agent skill from deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills. Run a go/no-go assessment for retiring a product or feature, then right-size the effort.

When should I use Eol Readiness Advisor?

Eol Readiness Advisor fits situations like: someone says we should probably kill this and nobody has made the call; tasks that involve Feature launches and release readiness.

How do I install Eol Readiness Advisor in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill eol-readiness-advisor -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/eol-readiness-advisor in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills) into .claude/skills/eol-readiness-advisor in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Eol Readiness Advisor in Codex?

Run `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill eol-readiness-advisor -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/eol-readiness-advisor in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills) into .agents/skills/eol-readiness-advisor in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Eol Readiness Advisor in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill eol-readiness-advisor -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/eol-readiness-advisor, .gemini/skills/eol-readiness-advisor, .github/skills/eol-readiness-advisor and .opencode/skills/eol-readiness-advisor in your project.

What does Eol Readiness Advisor need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Eol Readiness Advisor is instructions for the agent only.

Does Eol Readiness Advisor access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: github.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Eol Readiness Advisor safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Eol Readiness Advisor use?

Eol Readiness Advisor has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Eol Readiness Advisor use?

About 5.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 22k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Eol Readiness Advisor?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Eol Readiness Advisor: .NET MAUI Release Readiness (dotnet/maui, 23k stars), Release Validation (Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm, 3.5k stars), Final Release Review (openai/openai-agents-python, 30k stars) and Final Release Review (openai/openai-agents-js, 3.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Eol Readiness Advisor?

deanpeters (a GitHub user) maintains it in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, which has 7,224 GitHub stars. The repository holds 75 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 1, 2026.

Source: deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.