pmos.md
wk 38 · Sep 20, 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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openclaw/openclaw

A personal AI assistant that runs on your own machine and reaches you through the messaging apps you already use. v2026.9.5 (Sep 19) ships Atomic Updates (checks the next version before switching over), plugins you can install without restarting the Gateway, shareable conversations, GPT Live for meetings and phone calls, browser pages you can work on alongside your agent, revisitable conversation archives, and guided setup for a specialist agent team.

local-firstmit★ this weekgithub.com
390k

Signal 8 · filtered

best reads this week + this month

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

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 v2026.9.5 adds Atomic Updates, restart-free plugin installs, shareable conversations, GPT Live in meetings, and guided specialist-team setup.
local-firstmit★ this weekgithub.com
390k
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NousResearch/hermes-agent
Self-evolving AI — learns from tasks, writes its own skills, retains memory across sessions. This week's v0.21.3 (Sep 14) patches a remote-dashboard session bug that could drop Desktop/Cloud sign-ins on refresh bursts, plus a duplicate state.db writer-handle leak.
self-evolvingmcpgithub.com
247k
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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
177k
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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
59.7k
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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
26.5k
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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. v0.18.48 (Sep 15) made live workflow apps and session recovery more dependable.
cowork-altmcpgithub.com
23.7k
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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
7k
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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
2.4k
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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

New to MCP? → Anthropic's MCP docs — setup guides, server examples, integration patterns.

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