pmos.md
Built by a PM, for PMs. Repos worth using, articles worth reading, a curated shelf of must-reads. Updated weekly.
The PM toolkit is being reshuffled faster than any taxonomy can keep up with. This is a living index of what's actually useful —
filtered for signal, not volume. No sponsored placements, no affiliates.
Maintained by a PM. v0.1 · Apr 2026
Signal
Best articles of the week and month. No think-pieces without substance. No hot takes.
This week
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AI Product Managers are the PMs that matter in 2026
productschool.com
This month
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11 shifts shaping product management in 2026
productschool.com
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Best AI PM tools 2026 — scored on a 100-point rubric
aipmtools.org
GitHub repos
Sorted by stars and real-world download activity. Bias toward repos PMs can use directly, not just reference.
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deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
47 battle-tested PM skills + command workflows for Claude Code, Cursor, Cowork, and AI agents. Updated v0.75 Mar 2026.
claude-codeai-agentsskillsgithub.com
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product-on-purpose/pm-skills
29 plug-and-play PM agent skills with workflow bundles across the full product lifecycle. MCP package available.
mcpworkflowstemplatesgithub.com
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ProductHired/open-product-management
Curated PM advice for technical people — interviews, frameworks, research, and growth tactics from practitioners.
resourcestechnical-pmgithub.com
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dend/awesome-product-management
The canonical curated list of PM resources — books, essays, tools, and communities. Community-maintained.
resourcescuratedgithub.com
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github.com/topics/product-management
The full GitHub topic page — the best place to discover new PM repos as they emerge each week.
discoverytrendinggithub.com
MCP for product managers
| tool | server | status | what PMs use it for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jira + Confluence | mcp-atlassian github.com | stable |
Query tickets, create issues, search Confluence pages, manage sprints |
| Linear | linear-mcp github.com | stable |
Manage issues, projects, and cycles. Pull sprint context into PRD drafts |
| Notion | notion-mcp-server github.com | official |
Read and write docs, databases, wikis. Summarize meeting notes, update specs |
| GitHub | github-mcp-server github.com | official |
Review PRs, search issues, understand codebase context without asking engineering |
| Slack | slack MCP github.com | stable |
Summarize channels, search past decisions, catch up on a project thread |
| Productboard | productboard-mcp github.com | beta |
Pull feature requests and roadmap items into agentic workflows |
| Google Calendar | google-calendar-mcp github.com | stable |
Schedule, prep for meetings, generate agenda docs from calendar context |
New to MCP? Start with the official Anthropic MCP documentation — includes setup guides, server examples, and integration patterns.
Recommended
Subjective and permanent. Things I keep coming back to. No affiliate links.
| title | type | why it's here | by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous Discovery Habits amazon.com | book |
Required reading before picking up any AI discovery tool. The mental model shift, not the tactics, is what stays with you. | Teresa Torres |
| The Beautiful Mess substack | newsletter |
John Cutler writes like no one else in product. Uncomfortable, honest, systems-level thinking. The opposite of LinkedIn thought leadership. | John Cutler |
| The Pragmatic Engineer substack | newsletter |
Essential if you work with engineers. The best writing on the PM–eng interface, grounded in how software actually gets built. | Gergely Orosz |
| Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI amazon.com | book |
150 use cases, 30 case studies. The most practical AI product book written by people who actually built with it, not about it. | Shyvee Shi |
| Lenny's Newsletter substack | newsletter |
The benchmark data is what makes it irreplaceable. Retention curves, conversion rates, team ratios — nobody else publishes this. | Lenny Rachitsky |
| Shape Up basecamp.com | book |
Free online. The best alternative to Scrum that nobody talks about enough. More relevant now that AI compresses delivery timelines. | Ryan Singer |