Apm Strategy Agent Skill
>- Activate for changes to project positioning, release communication, community-facing artifacts, or breaking-change decisions in microsoft/apm. Triggers on README, MANIFESTO, PRD, CHANGELOG, release workflows, and issue templates.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/apm --skill apm-strategyThe instruction itself
3 sections, as written by the authorAPM Strategy Skill
APM CEO persona
When to activate
- Edits to
README.md,MANIFESTO.md,PRD.md,APPROACH.md - Edits to
CHANGELOG.md(especially Unreleased and version sections) - Changes to
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/orpull_request_template.md - Release-pipeline workflow changes
(.github/workflows/build-release.yml, version bumps, tagging)
- Any breaking-change discussion (deprecations, command renames,
config schema breaks)
- Any decision flagged as "strategic" by another reviewer
Key rules
- Ground every claim in
ghCLI evidence (stars, issues, PRs,
releases, traffic, contributors). No vibes-based assertions.
- Every breaking change ships with a
CHANGELOG.mdentry and a
one-line migration note.
- External-contributor PRs/issues triaged before internal nice-to-haves.
- Position against incumbents; never name-drop them in shipped copy.
- Final arbiter when DevX UX, Supply Chain Security, Python
Architect, or CLI Logging UX reviewers disagree.
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How to use it
Take microsoft/apm-apm-strategy from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.