PM Cortex — Development skill for Claude Code
A self-evolving second brain for Product Managers — 45 brain-aware PM commands, 8 auto-selected skills, and 7 sub-agent reviewers, all wired to a three-tier memory that compounds every session.
How to install PM Cortex
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open brainAlly/pm-cortex and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What PM Cortex does
A self-evolving second brain for Product Managers — 45 brain-aware PM commands, 8 auto-selected skills, and 7 sub-agent reviewers, all wired to a three-tier memory that compounds every session. One plugin for Claude Desktop. Please reach out to vivek@brainally.io / vivekally@gmail.com for a chat.
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README
PM Cortex
[](LICENSE) [](#available-commands) [](#standalone-skills) [](#sub-agents)
**One plugin. One command. A self-evolving second brain that gets smarter every session.**
PM Cortex is a unified PM operating system for Claude Desktop — a three-tier memory brain wired directly to 45 PM commands, 8 auto-selected skills, and 7 sub-agent reviewers. Every meeting, interview, and decision feeds the brain. The brain makes every future command more context-aware. The system compounds.
What's Inside — 60 Items Total
🧠 The Brain — Three-Tier Memory
Plain markdown files. No cloud, no vector DB, no API keys. Lives in your project directory, version-controlled, readable by you.
| Tier | Path | What it stores |
|---|---|---|
| Source | brain/source/ |
Verbatim copies of every artifact ingested. Immutable audit trail. |
| Ingestion | brain/ingestion/ |
Synthesized observations from source. Provenance-tagged working memory. |
| Knowledge | brain/knowledge/ |
Promoted durable patterns — confirmed across 3+ independent sources. |
| Hypotheses | brain/hypotheses/ |
Evidence-weighted bets on what's true, organized by risk area. |
| Decisions | brain/decisions/ |
Append-only log. Every decision has an evidence trail and a reversal condition. |
| Stakeholders | brain/stakeholders/ |
Per-person state: open asks, concerns, last touchpoint, influence level. |
| Style | brain/style/ |
Your voice, your frameworks, your thinking patterns — learned and updated automatically. |
⚡ 45 Commands — All Brain-Aware
Every command loads relevant brain context before executing and updates the brain after. The same `/prd-draft` command on day 1 and day 90 produces different output
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