pm-scope-control
Skill2 starsChanged 4 months agoMITView on GitHub
Control CodeFlowMu task scope and prevent drive-by expansion. Use when PM must define allowed files, forbidden files, non-goals, risk expansion points, or when an agent proposes refactors, runtime changes, protocol changes, or external skill imports beyond the task.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
8 rules. About 0 are common, 6 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈6
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 10
Use this skill before dispatching work or when a task is growing beyond its original intent.
- Distinctive: line 17
Treat external skills as inspiration only unless separately approved.
- Very specific: line 21
Use the structure in docs/skills/pm-playbook/scope-control.md.
- Distinctive: line 25
Do not expand the formal FCoP protocol.
- Very specific: line 26
Do not add adopted-pending 0003.
- Distinctive: line 27
Do not perform drive-by refactors.
- Distinctive: line 28
Do not copy external skills wholesale.
- Distinctive: line 29
Do not turn Playbook into runtime API.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
PM Scope Control
When to use
Use this skill before dispatching work or when a task is growing beyond its original intent.
Rules
- Name allowed and forbidden change areas.
- Keep non-goals explicit.
- Split large or risky work into separate tasks.
- Treat external skills as inspiration only unless separately approved.
Required output
Use the structure in docs/skills/pm-playbook/scope-control.md.
Forbidden actions
- Do not expand the formal FCoP protocol.
- Do not add adopted-pending
0003. - Do not perform drive-by refactors.
- Do not copy external skills wholesale.
- Do not turn Playbook into runtime API.
Minimal example
Allowed: docs/skills, skills/*/SKILL.md, agent manifest
Forbidden: PmGovernancePlanner, Panel API, FCoP protocol filesDoes it work?
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