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escalation is agent-read markdown (skill) from rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os: Turn a stuck decision or a blocked dependency into a one-page brief (Situation, Impact, Urgency, Options, Recommendation, Ask) and route it up a named ladder with SLAs. Use when a decision has missed its needed-by date, when two teams deadlock, when a risk owner will not act, or when a governance forum keeps noting things without deciding anything..

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# Escalation: making the ask someone can grant

Escalation is a service to the decider, not an act of aggression. The [program premortem](../program-premortem/SKILL.md) names the disease as failure mode 3, governance without decision rights: forums that receive updates but cannot kill, fund, or resequence anything. Naming the disease is not a procedure. This skill is the procedure: a brief a decider can act on in five minutes, routed to someone who actually holds the decision, with the outcome recorded where the next person can find it.

## Files this skill drives

- [../../templates/execution/decision-log.md](../../templates/execution/decision-log.md), where the outcome lands, granted or declined
- [../../templates/execution/risk-register.md](../../templates/execution/risk-register.md), which absorbs a declined or deferred ask as an owned, accepted risk
- Reads: [../../templates/execution/stakeholder-map.md](../../templates/execution/stakeholder-map.md) for who holds which decision, and [../../templates/execution/dependency-register.md](../../templates/execution/dependency-register.md) for the escalation contacts it names

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rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

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