product-leadership SKILL.md skillA

product-leadership from yannickyamo/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add yannickyamo/skills/product-leadership@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
yannickyamo/skills
Path
product-leadership/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Feb 7, 2026
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14,662 bytes
Repository stars
23
License
MIT

Operate as a Director or CPO leading product organizations. Use when managing product portfolios, aligning with executives, communicating to boards, designing team structures, or establishing operating rhythms. Part of the Modern Product Operating Model collection.

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

# Product Leadership

> "Your job is no longer to build products. It's to build the teams and systems that build products."

This skill covers **Product Leadership** — the overlay for operating at Director, VP, or CPO level. It addresses portfolio management, executive alignment, board communication, team structure, and the operating rhythms that scale product organizations.

**Part of**: [Modern Product Operating Model](https://github.com/yannickYamo/skills) — a collection of composable product skills.

**Related skills**: `product-strategy`, `product-discovery`, `product-architecture`, `product-delivery`, `ai-native-product`

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## When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:
- Managing multiple products or product teams
- Aligning product strategy with company strategy
- Communicating to board or executives
- Designing product team structure
- Establishing operating rhythms across teams
- Coaching and developing product managers
- Navigating organizational politics

**Role scope**: Director, VP Product, CPO, Head of Product

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## The Leadership Shift

### IC PM vs. Product Leader

| Dimension | IC PM | Product Leader |
|-----------|-------|----------------|
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add yannickyamo/skills/product-leadership@sha256:64d6d9bc9a44904e

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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

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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 (14662 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

GitHub

yannickyamo/skills · 23 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_welgzgxwnzxi5zkd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yannickyamo/skills/product-leadership
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/64d6d9bc9a44904e0e2db53bdb67e78debb3173a7c96b64adf6b137eddc2034e

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