Agent skill

Personal Operating Manual

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Write the manual for how you work best — your energy, triggers, communication style, and non-negotiables — to share with a manager, team, or partner (or to know yourself).

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Personal Operating Manual

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill personal-operating-manual -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills personal-operating-manual --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/personal-operating-manual .claude/skills/personal-operating-manual && 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
personal-operating-manual
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
512 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Write the manual for how you work best — your energy, triggers, communication style, and non-negotiables — to share with a manager, team, or partner (or to know yourself).

  • Works in 5 steps: Cover the high-friction areas.… → Be specific and honest. "I need 2 hours… → Frame as enabling, not demanding.… → …
  • Asked to write my user manual
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Make The Invisible… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Personal Operating Manual is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Write the manual for how you work best — your energy, triggers, communication style, and non-negotiables — to share with a manager, team, or partner (or to know yourself). Use when asked to write my user manual, how I work best, a working-with-me guide, or help my team understand me. Produces a clear one-pager covering how you communicate, when you're at your best, what drains you, how you like feedback, and your non-negotiables — turning invisible friction into stated expectations, so people can work with you…

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.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Technical writing. 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 write my user manual
  • How I work best
  • A working-with-me guide
  • Help my team understand me

Example prompts

  • “/personal-operating-manual”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Cover the high-friction areas. Communication, energy/best-conditions, drains, feedback, and non-negotiables — these are where unspoken…
  2. Be specific and honest. "I need 2 hours of uninterrupted morning focus" beats "I like focus" — specifics let people actually adapt.
  3. Frame as enabling, not demanding. Present preferences as "here's how to get the best from me," not a list of complaints or rules.
  4. Distinguish preferences from non-negotiables. Most items are "nice if"; a few are genuine hard lines — separate them so the real ones…
  5. Keep it a one-pager. Short enough to actually read and remember; this is a quick reference, not an autobiography.

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

Personal Operating Manual loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 141 tokens; SKILL.md has 512 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~141
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). 512 words, ~1,025 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/personal-operating-manual/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
personal-operating-manual
description
Write the manual for how you work best — your energy, triggers, communication style, and non-negotiables — to share with a manager, team, or partner (or to know yourself). Use when asked to write my user manual, how I work best, a working-with-me guide, or help my team understand me. Produces a clear one-pager covering how you communicate, when you're at your best, what drains you, how you like feedback, and your non-negotiables — turning invisible friction into stated expectations, so people can work with you instead of around you.

Personal Operating Manual

Half of workplace and relationship friction is unspoken mismatch — you need quiet mornings, they schedule 9am calls; you want direct feedback, they hint. A "how to work with me" manual makes the invisible explicit. This writes yours: how you communicate, when you're at your best, what drains you, how you like feedback, and your hard lines — so people can adapt to how you actually work instead of guessing.

What This Skill Produces

  • How I communicate — your preferred channels, response speed, and style (direct vs. warm, written vs. talk-it-out)
  • When I'm at my best — your energy windows and the conditions for your best work
  • What drains me — the things that wreck your focus or energy (context-switching, surprise meetings, ambiguity)
  • How I like feedback — direct, private, written, immediate — however it actually lands well for you
  • My non-negotiables — the few hard lines (protected focus time, no weekend messages, whatever's real)
  • How to get the best from me — the practical "if you do X, I'll deliver Y"

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The audience — a manager, a whole team, a partner, or just for yourself
  • How you work best — your conditions, energy, and style (drawn out if needed)
  • Your friction points — where mismatches keep happening
  • Feedback preference — how criticism actually lands well for you
  • Your non-negotiables — the genuine hard lines

Framework: Make The Invisible Explicit

  1. Cover the high-friction areas. Communication, energy/best-conditions, drains, feedback, and non-negotiables — these are where unspoken mismatch causes the most friction.
  2. Be specific and honest. "I need 2 hours of uninterrupted morning focus" beats "I like focus" — specifics let people actually adapt.
  3. Frame as enabling, not demanding. Present preferences as "here's how to get the best from me," not a list of complaints or rules.
  4. Distinguish preferences from non-negotiables. Most items are "nice if"; a few are genuine hard lines — separate them so the real ones carry weight.
  5. Keep it a one-pager. Short enough to actually read and remember; this is a quick reference, not an autobiography.
Show full SKILL.md (175 more words)Show less

Output Format

How to work with me — [for audience]

How I communicate: [channels · speed · style]. I'm at my best when: [energy windows + conditions]. What drains me: [the focus/energy killers]. How I like feedback: [direct/private/written/etc.]. My non-negotiables: [the few real hard lines]. Get the best from me: [practical "if X then Y"].

Quality Checks

  • Covers the high-friction areas (comms, energy, drains, feedback, non-negotiables)
  • Items are specific and actionable, not vague
  • Framed as enabling, not demanding
  • Separates preferences from genuine non-negotiables
  • Fits on one readable page
  • Tuned to the intended audience

Anti-Patterns

  • Vague preferences no one can act on.
  • A list of demands rather than an enabling guide.
  • Everything as a "non-negotiable" — diluting the real ones.
  • An autobiography instead of a one-pager.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Write my 'how to work with me' guide for my new team."
  • "Help me make a user manual for myself."
  • "My manager should know how I work best — help me put it in writing."
  • "A working-with-me guide for my partner about how I operate."
  • "Help me articulate my non-negotiables and work style."

© 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/personal-operating-manual of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Personal Operating Manual

What does Personal Operating Manual do?

Write the manual for how you work best — your energy, triggers, communication style, and non-negotiables — to share with a manager, team, or partner (or to know yourself). Personal Operating Manual is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Write the manual for how you work best — your energy, triggers, communication style, and non-negotiables — to share with a manager, team, or partner (or to know yourself).

When should I use Personal Operating Manual?

Personal Operating Manual fits situations like: asked to write my user manual; how I work best; A working-with-me guide; help my team understand me.

How do I install Personal Operating Manual in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Personal Operating Manual in Codex?

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

Can I use Personal Operating Manual 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 personal-operating-manual -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/personal-operating-manual, .gemini/skills/personal-operating-manual, .github/skills/personal-operating-manual and .opencode/skills/personal-operating-manual in your project.

What does Personal Operating Manual need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Personal Operating Manual is instructions for the agent only.

Does Personal Operating Manual 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 Personal Operating Manual 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 Personal Operating Manual use?

Personal Operating Manual 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 Personal Operating Manual use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k 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 Personal Operating Manual?

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.

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