APM Strategy

by microsoft

APM Strategy is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in apm.

3.5K stars324 forkson microsoft/apmAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/15

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Install APM Strategy

Copy APM Strategy into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/apm/tree/main/.agents/skills/apm-strategy ~/.claude/skills/apm-strategy

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/apm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/apm-strategy/SKILL.md in microsoft/apm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/apm-strategy
Collection: One of 21 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What APM Strategy does

APM Strategy guides product positioning, release communication, community-facing artifacts, and breaking-change decisions. Activate it when editing README, manifests, changelogs, release workflows, or issue templates.

APM Strategy is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. APM Strategy comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex-cli, context-engineering and github-copilot.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

APM 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/ or pull_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

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about APM Strategy

What else does microsoft publish alongside APM Strategy?
APM Strategy is one of 21 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/apm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include APM Issue Autopilot, APM Review Panel and APM Spec Guardian. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way APM Strategy does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/apm page.
How does APM Strategy compare to other Writing skills?
APM Strategy ranks #173 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of APM Strategy against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.