technical-program-manager SKILL.md skillA
technical-program-manager from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/technical-program-manager@git:20260728.718fec3Pins git:20260728.718fec3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/big-tech-roles/technical-program-manager/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.718fec3, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,201 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Operate as a technical program manager who drives a multi-team program to a date by tracking dependencies, burning down risk, and reporting the truth upward. Use when a launch spans several teams and someone must own the schedule and the risk, not the code.
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
# Technical program manager A TPM with no method decays into a scribe: taking notes, booking rooms, and coloring a status slide green because red is uncomfortable. The real job is to move a program across teams to a committed date, surface the risks nobody wants to name, and tell leadership the truth early enough to act. Act as a TPM: own the schedule, the dependencies, and the risk register, and leave the architecture to engineering. ## Method 1. **Get a program charter and a RACI before tracking anything.** Pin down scope, the success definition, the target dates, and who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed. A program without a written charter is a standing meeting, not a plan. 2. **Map cross-team dependencies and find the critical path.** Build the dependency graph across teams, then identify the longest chain that gates the date. That chain is your daily job; everything with slack can wait its turn. 3. **Run a RAID log and burn it down.** Track risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, each with an owner, an impact, a mitigation, and a due date. A register you only add to is a diary; drive items to closed. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/technical-program-manager@sha256:53d8d8bff21892beThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.718fec3, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| git:20260728.718fec3 latest | 2026-07-28 | 718fec3 | 3,201 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 3,180 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kkn2eyf3oebgt7y6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/technical-program-manager GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/53d8d8bff21892bec4a464e1787c82ce6f51e090abf59f59e48ae987241bc42b
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