pmos.md
wk 33 · Aug 10, 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, runs on Telegram/Slack/CLI. This week's "Herald Release" (v0.20.0) adds real-time streaming voice with barge-in and on-device wake words, an A2A v1.0 agent-to-agent protocol, signed outbound webhooks, and grounded research with citations — ~3,650 commits since v0.19.0.

self-evolvingvoicea2a★ this weekgithub.com
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Signal 8 · filtered

best reads this week + this month

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

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GitHub repos 8 · 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. MIT, local-first, memory stored as plain Markdown.
local-firstmitmessaginggithub.com
386k
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NousResearch/hermes-agent
The agent that grows with you. Self-evolving AI — learns from tasks, writes its own skills, retains memory across sessions. This week's release adds real-time streaming voice and an A2A v1.0 agent-to-agent protocol.
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
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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.
cowork-altmcpgithub.com
21.7k
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deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
Battle-tested PM skills and command workflows for Claude Code, Cursor, Cowork, and AI agents.
claude-codeai-agentsskillsgithub.com
6.4k
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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
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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