pm-superpowers

PM Superpowers 🧭

Ask “what’s our moat?” about your own product and get a straight answer in about five minutes.

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Install

Claude Code

claude plugin marketplace add aniganti/pm-superpowers
claude plugin install pm-superpowers

Then ask find my moat for <your product>.

Cursor

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aniganti/pm-superpowers.git /tmp/pms
mkdir -p ~/.cursor/plugins/local && cp -R /tmp/pms/plugins/pm-superpowers ~/.cursor/plugins/local/pm-superpowers

Reload Cursor, then ask find my moat for <your product>.

If that was useful on your product, a ⭐ helps other PMs find it.

Skills · Getting started · Companion plugin · Frameworks · Contributing · MIT

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What is this, really?

It’s a plugin for Claude Code, Cursor, and Grok Bot: a set of skills, one sub-agent, and a shared library of framework definitions, packaged so they trigger naturally in conversation instead of living in a doc you have to remember to open.

Origin. In 2022 Ani published a 6-step product strategy framework. In 2026 that thinking became this runnable plugin.

In practice it feels like having a strategy-minded chief of staff who’s read VRIO, aggregation theory, and every pre-mortem post-mortem, and asks the right follow-up question instead of just generating a wall of text. You don’t copy-paste a prompt — you say “find my moat” for a thin first pass on your product, or run /strategy when you want the full framework, and the skill walks you through it step by step.

Most AI-for-PM tools stop at “generate a PRD.” They help you write faster, not think straighter. PM Superpowers is grounded in named, proven strategy frameworks — the AI doesn’t freestyle; it interviews you the way a sharp analyst would, then structures the output around the framework’s actual dimensions.

Stuff you do with it

• Get a VRIO read on your differentiation before it becomes a slide in the board deck — Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization, applied to your actual product.
• Stress-test a launch with a pre-mortem before the launch stress-tests you — Tigers, Paper Tigers, and Elephants, named and owned.
• Run competitive research without opening fifteen tabs — a sub-agent gathers the intelligence, you review the synthesis.
• Turn a strategy doc into a briefing your VP will actually read — audience-specific FAQs and workshop agendas generated from the artifacts you already built.
• Log a decision the moment you make it — reasoning, alternatives, and trade-offs captured while you still remember why, not reconstructed from Slack three months later.

Getting started

Claude Code

# Add the marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add aniganti/pm-superpowers

# Install the plugin
claude plugin install pm-superpowers

Then ask “find my moat” for a thin first-pass read on your product. For a skill menu, ask “skill guide.” Run /strategy when you want the full framework.

Cursor / Grok Bot

Install from a local copy. This works today:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aniganti/pm-superpowers.git /tmp/pms
mkdir -p ~/.cursor/plugins/local && cp -R /tmp/pms/plugins/pm-superpowers ~/.cursor/plugins/local/pm-superpowers

Reload Cursor, then ask “find my moat” for a thin first-pass read on your product. For a skill menu, ask “skill guide.”

The same GitHub repo powers Claude Code and Cursor. Cursor discovers skills from plugins/pm-superpowers/skills/ via .cursor-plugin manifests — Claude Code continues to use .claude-plugin.

mkdir -p ~/.cursor/plugins/local
cp -R plugins/pm-superpowers ~/.cursor/plugins/local/pm-superpowers

Live X/Twitter research is a separate, optional Claude/Hermes companion — see Companion plugin. You do not need it to use PM Superpowers.

I want to add a skill or framework

See CONTRIBUTING.md — new skills, new frameworks, agents, and bug fixes are all welcome. Direct pushes to main aren’t accepted; everything goes through review.

What’s inside

Strategic advisor skills

Planning & execution skills

Alignment & communication skills

Utility skills

Sub-agents

Companion plugin

hermes-tweet is an optional, documentation-only companion for Claude Code and Hermes Agent. It is not listed in the Cursor marketplace: the skill only guides live tweet_* work in a Hermes runtime, which Cursor / Grok Bot do not provide. Installing it in Claude Code does not add X/Twitter tools and does not run live research.

Live work requires a separate Hermes Agent session with the native Hermes Tweet plugin. That runtime uses Xquik, a third-party paid API (account, API key, and sufficient plan or credits). PM Superpowers does not provide or operate it. Xquik is not affiliated with this project or with X Corp.

# Guidance only — does not add tweet_* tools to Claude Code
claude plugin install hermes-tweet

# Live research: native Hermes plugin + optional PyPI fallback
hermes plugins install Xquik-dev/hermes-tweet --enable
uv pip install --python ~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/python hermes-tweet

Keep XQUIK_API_KEY in the Hermes runtime, not in chat, prompts, or this repo. See plugins/hermes-tweet/README.md for setup and safety defaults.

Available today · Being sharpened · Under consideration

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Two little stories

The QBR nobody dreaded. A PM runs competitive-landscape, then vrio-analysis on the same product. Twenty minutes later they have a defensibility argument built on named advantages, not adjectives. strategic-moat adds the eight-moat check. By the time strategy synthesizes it into pillars, the QBR deck writes itself — and survives the first hard question.

The launch that didn’t blow up. Two weeks before ship, a PM runs pre-mortem. The skill surfaces three Tigers (real risks), two Paper Tigers (looked scary, aren’t), and one Elephant nobody wanted to name out loud — a dependency on a team that hasn’t confirmed capacity. It gets named. stakeholder-alignment turns the findings into a one-pager for the exec review. The launch ships on time, because the risk got caught in week two instead of week six.

Recommended workflows

find-your-moat → strategic-moat  (or competitive-landscape / vrio-analysis)

competitive-landscape → vrio-analysis → strategic-moat → strategy → pre-mortem

pre-mortem → stakeholder-alignment

[any analysis skill] → decision-log → stakeholder-alignment

strategy → prioritization → stakeholder-alignment

[Hermes + hermes-tweet] → competitive-landscape / pre-mortem / decision-log / prioritization

Run verification after any of these before sharing artifacts with stakeholders.

Architecture

pm-superpowers/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json        # Claude Code marketplace
├── .cursor-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json        # Cursor / Grok Bot marketplace
├── plugins/
│   ├── hermes-tweet/           # Optional docs-only companion (Claude/Hermes only)
│   │   ├── .claude-plugin/
│   │   │   └── plugin.json
│   │   └── skills/
│   │       └── social-signal-intelligence/
│   └── pm-superpowers/
│       ├── .claude-plugin/
│       │   └── plugin.json     # Claude Code plugin manifest
│       ├── .cursor-plugin/
│       │   └── plugin.json     # Cursor / Grok Bot plugin manifest
│       ├── agents/             # Sub-agent definitions
│       └── skills/             # SKILL.md per skill (the core logic)
└── references/                 # Shared framework definitions (VRIO, moats, etc.)

Each skill follows a consistent structure: domain context → instructions → interactive process steps → structured output format. Skills include stopping conditions, red flags/anti-patterns, completion requirements, and workflow chaining to naturally guide PMs to the next relevant analysis.

Plugin marketplace, not a prompt library. Most PM-for-AI repos are flat collections of markdown templates. This is a proper plugin with dual manifests (Claude Code and Cursor / Grok Bot), a sub-agent, and skills that install cleanly, trigger naturally, and compose with other tools.

What this is not

• Not a PRD generator. Plenty of tools already do that well. This one exists for the thinking that has to happen before the PRD.
• Not a live X/Twitter client. hermes-tweet in this marketplace is workflow documentation. Live reads and actions run in Hermes Agent via Xquik, a third-party paid API.
• Not a replacement for your judgment. The frameworks structure the analysis and ask the questions you’d otherwise forget to ask. You still own the call.
• Not gospel. VRIO, RICE, the Tigers/Paper Tigers/Elephants framework — these are starting points with decades of use behind them, not the only lens worth applying.
• Not finished. New skills and sharper frameworks are still landing — see the table above.

_{PM Superpowers 🧭
MIT · Built by Ani Ganti, Principal PM at Wrapbook}