Agent skill

Career Ladder Map

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Map where you are against the next level and build a concrete plan to close the gap.

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Install Career Ladder Map

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill career-ladder-map -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills career-ladder-map --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/career-ladder-map .claude/skills/career-ladder-map && 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
career-ladder-map
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~892 tokens
SKILL.md length
434 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Map where you are against the next level and build a concrete plan to close the gap.

  • Asked to map a career ladder
  • SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, Output Format, Quality Checks and Anti-Patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Find the gap to the next level

What it does

Career Ladder Map is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Map where you are against the next level and build a concrete plan to close the gap. Use when asked to map a career ladder, find the gap to the next level, build a development/growth plan, or figure out what to work on to get promoted. Produces a level-gap map — current vs. target competencies side by side, the specific gaps, and a prioritised 1–2 quarter plan of evidence-generating projects to close them.

Its SKILL.md is about 890 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to map a career ladder
  • Find the gap to the next level
  • Build a development/growth plan
  • Figure out what to work on to get promoted

Example prompts

  • “/career-ladder-map”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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.

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Career Ladder Map loads about 892 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 434 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~107
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~892

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

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 434 words, ~892 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/career-ladder-map/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
career-ladder-map
description
Map where you are against the next level and build a concrete plan to close the gap. Use when asked to map a career ladder, find the gap to the next level, build a development/growth plan, or figure out what to work on to get promoted. Produces a level-gap map — current vs. target competencies side by side, the specific gaps, and a prioritised 1–2 quarter plan of evidence-generating projects to close them.

Career Ladder Map Skill

"How do I get to the next level?" usually gets a vague answer. This skill makes it concrete: lay your current demonstrated competencies next to the target level's, find the real gaps, and turn each into a specific project that will generate the evidence a promotion-packet needs. A plan, not a pep talk.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • Current level → target level, and the ladder/rubric for both (the competencies each expects).
  • Your current evidence — what you've demonstrated and where (a brag-doc helps).
  • Constraints — your role's scope, time, and what opportunities are realistically available.

Output Format

Career Ladder Map — [name], [current] → [target]

1. Side-by-side — each competency at current vs. target, with your honest status:

CompetencyTarget-level barWhere I am nowGap
e.g. Scope of influencemulti-teamstrong within my team🟡 partial

Status: 🟢 already demonstrating · 🟡 partial / inconsistent · 🔴 not yet.

2. The real gaps — the 2–4 competencies (🔴/🟡) that actually stand between you and the level. Be honest — a flattering map wastes quarters.

3. Evidence-generating plan — for each gap, a specific project that would create the proof, plus how you'd get the opportunity (ask your manager, volunteer, scope it yourself):

GapProject that proves itOpportunity / askBy when

4. Sequencing — what to focus on this quarter vs. next (you can't close every gap at once; pick the highest-signal ones).

5. Manager alignment — what to confirm with your manager so you're calibrated on the same bar (the #1 cause of surprise "not yet"s).

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Quality Checks

  • Both levels are mapped against the actual rubric, not a generic guess
  • Your current status is honest (🟢/🟡/🔴), not aspirational
  • Each gap has a specific project that generates evidence — not "get better at X"
  • The plan names how you'll get the opportunity, not just the goal
  • It's sequenced (this quarter vs. next), and includes a manager-calibration step

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not produce a flattering self-assessment — an honest 🔴 you can fix beats a 🟢 the committee disagrees with
  • Do not list goals without the project that proves them — "show more leadership" isn't a plan
  • Do not try to close every gap at once — sequence by signal; depth beats breadth
  • Do not skip manager calibration — closing gaps against a bar your manager doesn't share leads to a surprise "not yet"
  • Do not confuse activity with evidence — the project has to produce a demonstrable, level-appropriate outcome

Based On

Career-ladder / competency-framework practice — gap analysis against the target level and evidence-led development planning.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Map a career ladder."
  • "Find the gap to the next level."
  • "Build a development/growth plan."
  • "Figure out what to work on to get promoted."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/career-ladder-map of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Customer Journey Mapphuryn/pm-skills27k—~816Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Career Ladder Map

What does Career Ladder Map do?

Map where you are against the next level and build a concrete plan to close the gap. Career Ladder Map is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Map where you are against the next level and build a concrete plan to close the gap.

When should I use Career Ladder Map?

Career Ladder Map fits situations like: asked to map a career ladder; find the gap to the next level; build a development/growth plan; figure out what to work on to get promoted.

How do I install Career Ladder Map in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill career-ladder-map -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/career-ladder-map in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/career-ladder-map in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Career Ladder Map in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill career-ladder-map -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/career-ladder-map in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/career-ladder-map in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Career Ladder Map 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill career-ladder-map -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/career-ladder-map, .gemini/skills/career-ladder-map, .github/skills/career-ladder-map and .opencode/skills/career-ladder-map in your project.

What does Career Ladder Map need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Career Ladder Map is instructions for the agent only.

Does Career Ladder Map access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Career Ladder Map 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 Career Ladder Map use?

Career Ladder Map is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Career Ladder Map use?

About 892 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k 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 Career Ladder Map?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Career Ladder Map: Token Map (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars), Maps Geography (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Feature Map (onyx-dot-app/onyx, 32k stars) and Source Maps (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Career Ladder Map?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.