North Star Metric Advisor
Pick one customer-centric North Star metric and 3-5 input metrics for your business
- Repository
- phuryn/pm-skills
- Stars
- 27,616
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
When installed, the agent acts as a metrics strategist: it first classifies your business into one of three 'games' (Attention, Transaction or Productivity), then proposes a single North Star Metric, a customer-centric number that reflects the value customers get and predicts long-term success. It checks that candidate against seven criteria (easy to understand, customer-centric, sustainable, vision-aligned, quantitative, actionable, leading indicator) and lists 3-5 input metrics that drive it. The skill is text-only guidance; it does not connect to your data.
Great for
- Founders or product leads choosing what their company should measure and optimize
- Product managers setting up an OKR or metrics framework and needing a structured starting point
- Teams debating between several candidate metrics and wanting them evaluated against clear criteria
Skip it if
- Companies that need a finished dashboard or live data analysis: the skill only reasons from the context you type, it does not pull metrics from your systems
- Situations where you want a revenue or LTV number as the main goal: the skill itself says a North Star should be customer-centric, not purely financial, so it will push back on that
Try asking
- “Use the north star metric skill to help me pick a North Star for my meditation app that sells annual subscriptions.”
- “What should our North Star metric be for a two-sided marketplace connecting freelance designers and clients?”
- “Classify my B2B note-taking tool as an attention, transaction or productivity game and suggest input metrics.”
- “Evaluate these three candidate North Star metrics against the seven criteria: weekly active teams, documents shared, and monthly revenue.”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
north-star-metric.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip north-star-metric.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip north-star-metric.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Describe your business model, revenue model, vision and the customer value you deliver, since the skill asks for these details and output quality depends on them.
- Share the metrics you already track so input metrics can be tied to real numbers rather than generic examples.
- Treat the output as a hypothesis to test: the skill's framework is one perspective, so validate the chosen metric with your own customer data.
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from phuryn/pm-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.