About pitch-packager
pitch-packager is a skill for turning implementation artifacts into concise review documents. It structures the pitch for skeptical reviewers, making the demo, expert concerns, deviations, and scope boundaries explicit.
Key features
- 01Collects plans, demos, notes, and diffs
- 02Leads with a demo or visual evidence
- 03Addresses expert questions and failure modes
- 04Reports deviations from the plan
- 05Defines what is outside the change
- 06Adapts format to the review venue
Use cases
- 01Preparing a pull request description for review
- 02Presenting a user-facing change with screenshots or a recording
- 03Explaining implementation risks and scope to skeptical reviewers
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ neeeophytee/ finding-unknowns-skills --skill pitch-packagerAfter installing, type/pitch-packagerin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMEPitch packager
Reviewers start with the same unknowns the builder started with, plus one more: whether the builder accounted for the failure points an expert would probe. A good pitch doc kills both in one read.
Steps
- Collect the artifacts: the spec or plan, the prototype or demo, the implementation notes, and the diff. Ask for a demo recording or screenshots if any user-facing behavior changed — lead with that.
- Structure the document in reading order for a skeptic:
- The demo — what it looks like working, first. A GIF or screenshot beats prose.
- The problem and the bet — two paragraphs max: what this solves and the approach chosen over the alternatives.
- What an expert would ask — the 3-5 hard questions a reviewer in this domain would raise (edge cases, scale, failure modes, migration), each answered honestly, including "not handled, here's why that's acceptable for now."
- Deviations from plan — lifted straight from implementation-notes, because surprises found in review cost trust.
- What's NOT in this change — scope fences, so the review doesn't sprawl.
- Keep it one page. Link out to the spec, notes, and diff rather than inlining them.
- Match the medium to the venue: a Slack-pasteable doc, a PR description, or a standalone HTML page — ask which if unclear.
Guardrails
- Never oversell: a pitch that hides a known weakness converts one approval into a permanent credibility loss.
- The "what an expert would ask" section is the heart. If it's easy to write, the questions aren't hard enough.
- If the work isn't actually ready, the honest pitch is a status update, and saying so is part of this skill.
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