lifecycle-play-advisor SKILL.md skillA
lifecycle-play-advisor from deanpeters/product-manager-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/lifecycle-play-advisor@git:20260810.ba3fc8cPins git:20260810.ba3fc8c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deanpeters/product-manager-skills
- Path
skills/lifecycle-play-advisor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260810.ba3fc8c, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 10, 2026
- Size
- 17,554 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,599
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Diagnose where a product sits in its lifecycle and which play fits — extend, replace, or retire. Use when a product is fading and you need the call, not just the worry.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Lifecycle Play Advisor ## Purpose Work out what to do with a product that has stopped growing. Three plays are available — **extend**, **replace**, **retire** — and this skill gets you to the right one through diagnosis rather than debate, then hands you to whichever skill executes it. Most teams argue the play before establishing the stage. The argument is unwinnable that way, because nobody has agreed on what's actually happening to the product. Four questions fixes that. This skill is deliberately willing to say **"nothing yet."** A mature product throwing off margin with manageable support cost doesn't need a play; it needs to be left alone and watched. ## Input **Works best with:** The product, and what makes you think something needs to change. **Also useful:** Revenue trend and over how long, support load, what customers say, whether an internal driver (cost, capacity, strategy) is really behind the question, and what investment appetite exists. Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/lifecycle-play-advisor@sha256:6d7854d8f9af350eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260810.ba3fc8c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_a4l7fmgkrs2mh5s3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 10, 2026.
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| git:20260810.ba3fc8c latest | 2026-08-10 | ba3fc8c | 17,554 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260810.d025768 | 2026-08-10 | d025768 | 17,526 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (17554 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
deanpeters/product-manager-skills · 7,599 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_a4l7fmgkrs2mh5s3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/lifecycle-play-advisor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6d7854d8f9af350e72bed9b2ae0adf758bf033a37057da5b82798c08e7955446
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.