altitude-horizon-framework SKILL.md skillA
altitude-horizon-framework 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/altitude-horizon-framework@git:20260704.6a4fbf2Pins git:20260704.6a4fbf2 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/altitude-horizon-framework/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260704.6a4fbf2, committed Jul 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 1, 2026
- Size
- 15,403 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,599
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Understand the PM-to-Director transition through altitude and horizon thinking. Use when diagnosing scope, time-horizon, or leadership-level gaps.
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
## Purpose Defines the two-axis mental model that distinguishes Director-level thinking from PM thinking: **Altitude** (how wide you zoom out) and **Horizon** (how far ahead you look). Use this to understand what actually changes in the transition, diagnose which transition zone is creating friction, and apply the Cascading Context Map when organizational direction is vague or absent. This is not a seniority hierarchy. A PM operating at the right altitude for their role is doing excellent work. A Director operating at PM altitude is leaving their actual job undone. ## Input **Nothing required** — this is a reference framework you can read start to finish. **Also useful:** Your current situation (role, the transition friction you're feeling, a decision you're weighing). With that, the framework can be applied directly to diagnose which transition zone you're in. 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. …
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How to install
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/altitude-horizon-framework@sha256:3da2db81608df876The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260704.6a4fbf2, 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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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 1, 2026 and Jul 4, 2026, about one every 31 days.
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| git:20260704.6a4fbf2 latest | 2026-07-04 | 6a4fbf2 | 15,403 B | A | view · diff |
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Source
deanpeters/product-manager-skills · 7,599 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
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