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First draft of a common clinic document — practice-area templates (asylum applications, eviction answers, protective order petitions, demand letters), jurisdiction-aware formatting, explicitly a…
Outline documents before drafting them — the argument skeleton that gets alignment cheaply, the one-line-per-section discipline, and the review-the-outline step that saves rewriting the prose.
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Install Outline Before Prose
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill outline-before-prose -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills outline-before-prose --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/outline-before-prose .claude/skills/outline-before-prose && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "outline-before-prose" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/outline-before-prose into .claude/skills/outline-before-prose/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outline-before-prose", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/outline-before-proseType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill outline-before-prose -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills outline-before-prose --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/outline-before-prose .agents/skills/outline-before-prose && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "outline-before-prose" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/outline-before-prose into .agents/skills/outline-before-prose/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outline-before-prose", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill outline-before-prose -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills outline-before-prose --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/outline-before-prose .cursor/skills/outline-before-prose && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "outline-before-prose" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/outline-before-prose into .cursor/skills/outline-before-prose/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outline-before-prose", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git --path skills/outline-before-prose--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill outline-before-prose -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills outline-before-prose --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/outline-before-prose .gemini/skills/outline-before-prose && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "outline-before-prose" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/outline-before-prose into .gemini/skills/outline-before-prose/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outline-before-prose", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills outline-before-proseInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill outline-before-prose -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/outline-before-prose .github/skills/outline-before-prose && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "outline-before-prose" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/outline-before-prose into .github/skills/outline-before-prose/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outline-before-prose", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill outline-before-prose -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills outline-before-prose --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/outline-before-prose .opencode/skills/outline-before-prose && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "outline-before-prose" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/outline-before-prose into .opencode/skills/outline-before-prose/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outline-before-prose", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
outline-before-prose- GitHub stars
- 1.4k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 703 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 1,348
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Outline documents before drafting them — the argument skeleton that gets alignment cheaply, the one-line-per-section discipline, and the review-the-outline step that saves rewriting the prose.
- Works in 5 steps: Sections are claims, not topics:… → The header is the contract: reader + the… → Order is the argument: claims sequenced… → …
- Asked help me start this document
- SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: The Skeleton Rules and Output Format, plus 6 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Outline Before Prose is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Outline documents before drafting them — the argument skeleton that gets alignment cheaply, the one-line-per-section discipline, and the review-the-outline step that saves rewriting the prose. Use when asked help me start this document, outline before I write, why do my docs get rewritten from scratch in review, or get sign-off before drafting. Produces the outline with each section's claim (not topic), the reader-and-decision header, the outline review step, and the expansion rules.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 help me start this document
- Outline before I write
- Why do my docs get rewritten from scratch in review
- Get sign-off before drafting
Example prompts
- “/outline-before-prose”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Sections are claims, not topics: "Performance" is a topic; "The latency regression comes from the new retry logic" is a claim — a claim…
- The header is the contract: reader + the decision + length budget, written first. Every outline decision gets tested against it — a…
- Order is the argument: claims sequenced so each earns the next — context → the problem's cost → the proposal → the evidence → the risks…
- The outline review asks one question: "if the sections argue these claims with this evidence, does the doc work for you?" — five minutes…
- Expansion is faithful or renegotiated: drafting fills sections without spawning new ones; material that demands a new section goes back…
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
Outline Before Prose loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 127 tokens; SKILL.md has 703 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
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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). 703 words, ~1,316 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/outline-before-prose/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- outline-before-prose
- description
- Outline documents before drafting them — the argument skeleton that gets alignment cheaply, the one-line-per-section discipline, and the review-the-outline step that saves rewriting the prose. Use when asked help me start this document, outline before I write, why do my docs get rewritten from scratch in review, or get sign-off before drafting. Produces the outline with each section's claim (not topic), the reader-and-decision header, the outline review step, and the expansion rules.
Outline Before Prose Skill
Documents get rewritten in review because the structure was wrong — and structure feedback arrived after two days of prose polishing. The outline-first discipline moves that feedback to hour one: a skeleton where every section is a one-line claim (not a topic), a header naming the reader and the decision, and a five-minute outline review with the key stakeholder before any paragraphs exist. Prose expands an approved outline in one pass; prose written first defends itself against restructuring forever.
What This Skill Produces
- The header — reader, the decision/action the doc exists to produce, and the length budget
- The claim outline — each section as the sentence it will argue, in order, with the evidence it will carry noted
- The outline review step — who sees the skeleton, what question they're asked, before drafting starts
- The expansion rules — how the approved outline becomes prose without growing new sections in the dark
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
- The doc's job — what the reader should do after reading (approve, decide, follow, stop worrying); docs without a job become tours
- The reader, specifically — their context level and their likely objection; the outline argues to someone
- The material — what's known, what evidence exists, the conclusion if one is already honest — outlines organize material; they don't survive its absence
- The reviewer — whose restructuring would hurt most later; that's who reviews the outline now
Framework: The Skeleton Rules
- Sections are claims, not topics: "Performance" is a topic; "The latency regression comes from the new retry logic" is a claim — a claim outline can be disagreed with at outline stage, which is the entire point. If a section's claim can't be written, the thinking isn't done, and prose would have hidden that for two more days.
- The header is the contract: reader + the decision + length budget, written first. Every outline decision gets tested against it — a section that doesn't move the named reader toward the named decision is cut now, at one line of sunk cost.
- Order is the argument: claims sequenced so each earns the next — context → the problem's cost → the proposal → the evidence → the risks conceded → the ask. Reordering at outline stage is drag-and-drop; at prose stage it's surgery with transitions.
- The outline review asks one question: "if the sections argue these claims with this evidence, does the doc work for you?" — five minutes, the reviewer who'd otherwise restructure in review. Their edits land on one page, and the expensive rewrite dies unborn. (This is the executive-summary discipline applied one stage earlier.)
- Expansion is faithful or renegotiated: drafting fills sections without spawning new ones; material that demands a new section goes back through the header test (and the reviewer, if it changes the shape). The outline travels at the doc's top during drafting — becoming the TOC, or the exec summary's skeleton, at ship time.
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Output Format
Outline: [doc] — for [reader] to [decision] · budget: [length]
The Skeleton
- [Section claim, as a sentence] — evidence: [what carries it]
- … [Ordered as the argument · cuts noted: "considered and dropped: X (fails the header test)"]
The Review Step
[Who · the one question · scheduled before drafting]
Expansion Rules
[Fill-don't-spawn · the renegotiation trigger · the outline's afterlife as TOC/summary]
Quality Checks
- Every section is a disagreeable claim, not a topic word
- The header names reader, decision, and budget — and every section passed its test
- Order makes each claim set up the next
- The outline reviewer is the person whose late restructuring would cost most
- Drafting rules prevent silent new sections
Anti-Patterns
- Do not outline in topics — "Background / Analysis / Conclusion" postpones every real decision to prose
- Do not draft while outlining — pretty sentences at skeleton stage are premature attachment
- Do not skip the review because the outline "is obvious" — obvious outlines take five minutes to confirm and two days to rewrite
- Do not defend outline structure at prose review — that conversation was available cheaper earlier; have it earlier
- Do not outline without the material — a skeleton of unknowns is a research plan wearing a doc's clothes, and should be named as one
Example Trigger Phrases
- "Help me start this document."
- "Outline before I write."
- "Why do my docs get rewritten from scratch in review?"
- "Get sign-off before drafting."
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Files
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Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0
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| Outline Before Prose this skillmohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills | 1.4k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Draftanthropics/claude-for-legal | 9.6k | 3 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Blog Post Draftingluongnv89/claude-howto | 42k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Blog Post Drafting Workflowluongnv89/claude-howto | 42k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Blog Draft Workflowluongnv89/claude-howto | 42k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Policy Draftinganthropics/claude-for-legal | 9.6k | 2 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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Questions about Outline Before Prose
What does Outline Before Prose do?
Outline documents before drafting them — the argument skeleton that gets alignment cheaply, the one-line-per-section discipline, and the review-the-outline step that saves rewriting the prose. Outline Before Prose is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Outline documents before drafting them — the argument skeleton that gets alignment cheaply, the one-line-per-section discipline, and the review-the-outline step that saves rewriting the prose.
When should I use Outline Before Prose?
Outline Before Prose fits situations like: asked help me start this document; outline before I write; why do my docs get rewritten from scratch in review; get sign-off before drafting.
How do I install Outline Before Prose in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill outline-before-prose -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/outline-before-prose in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/outline-before-prose in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Outline Before Prose in Codex?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill outline-before-prose -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/outline-before-prose in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/outline-before-prose in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Outline Before Prose 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 outline-before-prose -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/outline-before-prose, .gemini/skills/outline-before-prose, .github/skills/outline-before-prose and .opencode/skills/outline-before-prose in your project.
What does Outline Before Prose need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Outline Before Prose is instructions for the agent only.
Does Outline Before Prose 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 Outline Before Prose 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 Outline Before Prose use?
Outline Before Prose 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 Outline Before Prose use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
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Who maintains Outline Before Prose?
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.