pmos.md
wk 39 · Sep 27, 2026

pmosmd

The PM stack is being rewritten weekly. We keep track, so you don't have to.

A hand-curated index of GitHub repos, articles, MCP servers, and long-shelf reads — filtered for substance, not volume. Built by a PM, for PMs. No ads, no affiliates, no newsletters to sign up for.

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NousResearch/hermes-agent

Self-evolving AI — learns from tasks, writes its own skills, retains memory across sessions. v0.21.4 (Sep 21) ships a Desktop plugin SDK (composer draft API, session-list and row-decoration slots, sidebar nav prefs, a sandboxed embed primitive), a Connectors page that replaces the MCP tab, complete French, German, and Spanish Desktop catalogs, an RTL/LTR text-direction setting, custom model entry from the composer and Settings pickers, and per-profile stop/start/restart under the host multiplexer. v0.21.5 (Sep 24) rolls the following ~460 PRs into a stable patch tag.

self-evolvingmcp★ this weekgithub.com
249k

Signal 8 · filtered

best reads this week + this month

No hot takes. No think-pieces without a concrete takeaway.

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AI Skills with Matt Pocock
pragmaticengineer.com
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GitHub repos 11 · sorted by stars

repos worth using, not just bookmarking

Bias toward repos PMs can use directly, not just reference.

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openclaw/openclaw
A personal AI assistant that runs on your own machine and reaches you through the messaging apps you already use. This week's v2026.9.6 adds managed updates with restart recovery, complete 30-day usage reporting, GitHub and remote-workspace tools, live meeting notes, and new model choices.
local-firstmitgithub.com
391k
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NousResearch/hermes-agent
Self-evolving AI — learns from tasks, writes its own skills, retains memory across sessions. This week's v0.21.4 (Sep 21) ships a Desktop plugin SDK, a Connectors page replacing the MCP tab, complete French/German/Spanish Desktop catalogs, custom model entry, and per-profile process control; v0.21.5 (Sep 24) rolls the follow-on patches into a stable tag.
self-evolvingmcp★ this weekgithub.com
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anthropics/skills
The public repository for Agent Skills — the format the PM skill packs below are written against. Start here before writing your own.
skillsagentsreferencegithub.com
179k
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makeplane/plane
Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative — a full project management platform for tasks, sprints, docs, and triage. Actively shipping daily.
project-mgmtopen-sourcegithub.com
60k
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phuryn/pm-skills
PM Skills Marketplace: 100+ agentic skills, commands, and plugins spanning discovery, strategy, execution, launch, and growth.
skillsagenticgithub.com
26.6k
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different-ai/openwork
Open-source alternative to Claude Cowork. One OpenWork MCP shares skills, MCPs, and connected services across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, teammates, and machines. Four releases this week: one-command self-hosting (v0.18.50), a rebuilt desktop Library and unified + menu (v0.18.52), and restored enterprise sign-in plus Amazon Bedrock support (v0.18.54).
cowork-altmcpgithub.com
23.8k
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opf/openproject
Open-source project, portfolio, and product management platform — agile planning, roadmaps, Gantt charts, and time tracking. v17.8.0 (Sep 2) let the MCP server create and update work packages directly, plus sprints and milestones on the project timeline.
project-mgmtopen-sourcegithub.com
16.2k
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deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
77 battle-tested PM skills and 6 command workflows for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other agents — teaches the reasoning behind each framework, not just the template, so the human PM learns it too.
skillsclaude-codegithub.com
7.1k
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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
4.5k
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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
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MCP for PMs 7 · servers

the servers that fit a PM workflow

MCP lets your AI agent reach into the tools you already use. These are the servers that are actually useful to PMs — not all 300+.

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 remote MCP linear.app official 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-server github.com community 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

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Recommended 5 · permanent shelf

subjective · no affiliate links

Things I keep coming back to. Changes rarely. If you only read one section, this is the one.

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 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