Run adversarial review on a PM artifact via the pm-critic sub-agent. Returns findings graded P0/P1/P2/P3 with a concrete fix suggestion per finding and a machine-readable status block. Use after producing a PRD, meeting recap, OKR set, persona, or any PM artifact you want stress-tested before it shi

<! PM Skills https://github.com/product on purpose/pm skills Apache 2.0 PM Critic (Dispatch Skill) This skill is a cross client dispatch wrapper for the pm critic sub agent. It exists so that users on non Claude clients can run adversarial review with the same intent as Claude Code users, without depending on native plugin sub agent infrastructure. Per master plan D11 (amended) + D30, sub agents are a Claude Code plugin feature. Non Claude clients (Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI) cannot natively load agents/pm critic.md . This skill bridges the gap. When to Use You want adversarial review of a PM artifact (PRD, OKR set, persona, lean canvas, meeting recap, interview synthesis, problem statement, hypothesis, edge case catalog, retrospective, etc.) You are running on a non Claude AI client and the pm critic sub agent is not natively available You are running on Claude Code and prefer skill invocation semantics over sub agent semantics (e.g., for consistency across a multi step workflow that mixes skills and sub agent intents) When NOT to Use You want a structural lint / repo level audit use utility pm skill auditor (audits skills + repo state) instead You want to author an artifact (this skill only reviews) use the appropriate phase skill (deliver prd, foundation okr writer, etc.) You want code review use a code review specific tool (this skill is for PM artifacts) You want to enforce style rules like em dash sweep that is pm release conductor 's G0 gate, not this skill Instructions Runtime detection step. Determine which AI client is invoking this skill. If you are running in Claude Code with the pm skills plugin installed Invoke @agent pm skills:pm critic on the target artifact. Pass the artifact path as argument (or the most recent artifact in session context if no argument is provided). Return the sub agent's findings to the user. No further action needed from this skill the sub agent handles the review natively in its own context window. If you are running in any other AI client Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI, ChatGPT, or any other client without native pm skills plugin sub agent support: 1. Read the canonical sub agent definition at agents/pm critic.md 2. Execute the system prompt body in that file as your operating instructions for this turn 3. Read the target PM artifact specified by the user (path from $ARGUMENTS , or most recently produced artifact in session) 4. Read the canonical standards docs referenced by the pm critic system prompt for the artifact type (e.g., skills/foundation okr writer/SKILL.md for OKR sets, skills/deliver prd/SKILL.md for PRDs) 5. Produce findings graded P0/P1/P2/P3 with concrete fix suggestions, formatted per the output structure documented in docs/guides/adversarial review.md 6. End the output with the layered structure per master plan D26: Section (1): full human readable findings (the P0/P1/P2/P3 report) Section (2): Status Summary in prose, summarizing what was found and what the user should do next Section (3): Status YAML block with machine readable fields Output Format See references/TEMPLATE.md for the canonical output structure (with the layered Status envelope per D26). See references/EXAMPLE.md for a worked example showing a real cross client dispatch run against a PRD. Composition Skills: This dispatch skill composes with all PM artifact producing skills (deliver prd, foundation okr writer, foundation meeting recap, foundation persona, foundation lean canvas, discover interview synthesis, etc.). Run any of those, then run this skill on the produced artifact. Sub agents: On Claude Code, this skill dispatches to pm critic sub agent. On non Claude, this skill IS the inline execution; no further dispatch. Workflows: pm workflow orchestrator (shipped v2.24.0) can invoke this skill at quality gate steps for cross client compatibility. Cross Client Notes See [Sub Agent Compatibility Matrix](../../docs/reference/sub agent compatibility.md) for the canonical cross client status of all 4 sub agents + dispatch skills. Summary for this skill as of v2.16.0: PRODUCTION on Claude Code + Codex CLI; EXPERIMENTAL on Cursor / Windsurf / Copilot CLI / Gemini CLI. Maintainers wanting cross client confidence on a non Claude client can re run the [ maintainer gate testing codex.md ](../../docs/internal/release plans/v2.16.0/maintainer gate testing codex.md) harness on that client. The "read and execute inline" pattern depends on the AI being able to: 1. Read a file path provided as a reference (most AI clients support this) 2. Treat that file's content as operating instructions for the current turn (most AI clients support this for SKILL.md style instructions) 3. Read additional referenced standards docs at invocation time (all major AI clients support this) If any of these are unreliable on a given client, that client cannot use this dispatch skill effectively. Reference Files Canonical sub agent definition: [ agents/pm critic.md ](../../agents/pm critic.md) Behavioral spec: [ docs/internal/release plans/v2.16.0/spec pm critic.md ](../../docs/internal/release plans/v2.16.0/spec pm critic.md) User facing guide: [ docs/guides/adversarial review.md ](../../docs/guides/adversarial review.md) Runtime components catalog: [ docs/reference/runtime components.md ](../../docs/reference/runtime components.md) Output template: references/TEMPLATE.md Worked example: references/EXAMPLE.md

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