Agent skill

Epic Progress Report

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Report on an epic or initiative deeper than a status bullet — child work broken down by status, the riskiest unfinished pieces, and honest suggested cuts to hit the date.

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Install Epic Progress Report

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill epic-progress-report -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills epic-progress-report --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/epic-progress-report .claude/skills/epic-progress-report && 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
epic-progress-report
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
531 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,322
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Report on an epic or initiative deeper than a status bullet — child work broken down by status, the riskiest unfinished pieces, and honest suggested cuts to hit the date.

  • Works in 5 steps: Remaining work, not just percent. Report… → Status by child, honestly. Blocked and… → Name the riskiest pieces. Dependencies,… → …
  • Asked for an epic progress report
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Progress You Can… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Epic Progress Report is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Report on an epic or initiative deeper than a status bullet — child work broken down by status, the riskiest unfinished pieces, and honest suggested cuts to hit the date. Use when asked for an epic progress report, where are we on this initiative, break down epic status, or what can we cut to ship on time. Produces the completion picture by child status, the critical-path and riskiest remaining work, a scope-cut menu with impact, and a straight call on whether the target date is realistic.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k 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 for an epic progress report
  • Where are we on this initiative
  • Break down epic status
  • What can we cut to ship on time

Example prompts

  • “/epic-progress-report”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Remaining work, not just percent. Report what's left and how hard it is — the last 20% is often the risky 80%.
  2. Status by child, honestly. Blocked and not-started are different from in-progress; don't average them into a comforting number.
  3. Name the riskiest pieces. Dependencies, unknowns, and the one hard component are where dates die — call them out.
  4. Offer cuts, don't just warn. A scope-cut menu with impact turns "we might slip" into a decision the team can make.
  5. Give a straight date call. "On track," "at risk — here's why," or "won't make it without cuts." Vague green status is the enemy.

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

Epic Progress Report loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 129 tokens; SKILL.md has 531 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~129
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

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). 531 words, ~1,011 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/epic-progress-report/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
epic-progress-report
description
Report on an epic or initiative deeper than a status bullet — child work broken down by status, the riskiest unfinished pieces, and honest suggested cuts to hit the date. Use when asked for an epic progress report, where are we on this initiative, break down epic status, or what can we cut to ship on time. Produces the completion picture by child status, the critical-path and riskiest remaining work, a scope-cut menu with impact, and a straight call on whether the target date is realistic.

Epic Progress Report

"Epic is 60% done" is the least useful sentence in delivery — 60% of what, and is the remaining 40% the easy part or the terrifying part? This breaks the epic into its child work by status, surfaces the pieces most likely to blow the date, and — instead of just reporting — offers a cut menu and an honest read on whether the deadline survives contact with reality.

What This Skill Produces

  • The completion picture — child items grouped by status (done / in progress / not started / blocked), with what % and which work remains
  • The riskiest remaining work — the unfinished pieces most likely to slip (unknowns, dependencies, the hard 20%)
  • The cut menu — what could be descoped or deferred, and the impact of each cut
  • The date call — will it make the target as-is; if not, what has to give

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The epic & its children — the stories/tasks under it and their statuses (a board export or list)
  • The target date & goal — what "done" means for this epic and when it's needed
  • Dependencies & unknowns — anything waiting on another team, or work that's still fuzzy
  • Who it's for — a standup, a stakeholder, or a go/no-go — tunes depth and bluntness

Framework: Progress You Can Act On

  1. Remaining work, not just percent. Report what's left and how hard it is — the last 20% is often the risky 80%.
  2. Status by child, honestly. Blocked and not-started are different from in-progress; don't average them into a comforting number.
  3. Name the riskiest pieces. Dependencies, unknowns, and the one hard component are where dates die — call them out.
  4. Offer cuts, don't just warn. A scope-cut menu with impact turns "we might slip" into a decision the team can make.
  5. Give a straight date call. "On track," "at risk — here's why," or "won't make it without cuts." Vague green status is the enemy.

Output Format

Show full SKILL.md (214 more words)Show less
Epic: [name] · target [date] · for [audience]
Completion
StatusCountWhich work
✅ Done
🔨 In progress
⬜ Not started
⛔ Blocked
Riskiest remaining
  • [item] — why it's risky (unknown / dependency / complexity).
Cut menu (to protect the date)
Could cut/deferSavesImpact if cut
Date call

On track / At risk / Won't make it without cuts — because [reason].

Quality Checks

  • Remaining work is described, not just a percentage
  • Children are grouped by real status (blocked ≠ in-progress ≠ not-started)
  • The riskiest unfinished pieces are named with why
  • A concrete cut menu with impact is offered, not just a risk warning
  • A straight date call is made — not a vague "green"
  • No invented statuses — unknowns are marked unknown

Anti-Patterns

  • A single % with no breakdown — hides where the risk is.
  • Averaging blocked and not-started into a reassuring number.
  • Warning of slip with no options — leaves the reader stuck.
  • Watermelon status (green outside, red inside) — a comfortable date call that isn't true.
  • Guessing a child's status instead of flagging it unknown.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Give me an epic progress report for the checkout revamp."
  • "Where are we really on this initiative, and can we cut to hit the date?"
  • "Break down this epic's status by child work and flag the risky bits."
  • "Is this epic going to make the deadline? What would we have to drop?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/epic-progress-report of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Epic Progress Report

What does Epic Progress Report do?

Report on an epic or initiative deeper than a status bullet — child work broken down by status, the riskiest unfinished pieces, and honest suggested cuts to hit the date. Epic Progress Report is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Report on an epic or initiative deeper than a status bullet — child work broken down by status, the riskiest unfinished pieces, and honest suggested cuts to hit the date.

When should I use Epic Progress Report?

Epic Progress Report fits situations like: asked for an epic progress report; where are we on this initiative; break down epic status; what can we cut to ship on time.

How do I install Epic Progress Report in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Epic Progress Report in Codex?

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

Can I use Epic Progress Report 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 epic-progress-report -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/epic-progress-report, .gemini/skills/epic-progress-report, .github/skills/epic-progress-report and .opencode/skills/epic-progress-report in your project.

What does Epic Progress Report need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Epic Progress Report is instructions for the agent only.

Does Epic Progress Report 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 Epic Progress Report 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 Epic Progress Report use?

Epic Progress Report 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 Epic Progress Report use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k 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 Epic Progress Report?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Epic Progress Report: Progressive Jpeg (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars), Initiate Setup (NousResearch/hermes-agent, 252k stars), Breakdown Epic Pm (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars) and Progressive Building (n8n-io/n8n, 207k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Epic Progress Report?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,431 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,322 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 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.