The PMP skills library and the review council pattern
SharePoint skills arrived in the PMP community library. The author celebrated by writing a skill that channels seven personas — a council of reviewers, all defined in a single file.
Takeaway 1
PMP now hosts a shared SharePoint skills library — community-built reusable skills.
Takeaway 2
Review Council is one skill that orchestrates many viewpoints in a single run.
Takeaway 3
Personas live in a referenced file — edit the file, change the council.
The PMP SharePoint skills library
SharePoint skills have come to PMP. The PMP GitHub experience now hosts a community-shared skills library, and contributors are moving their existing skills over. The library makes skills discoverable: instead of every team inventing the same persona reviewer or assertion extractor from scratch, you grab the one that already exists, customize it, and use it.
The author of the video uses the launch as the occasion to publish a new skill, Review Council, specifically built to highlight what a contributed community skill can look like.
A shared skills library turns one-off prompts into team assets. Each skill you publish raises the floor for everyone reading the library.
What the Review Council skill does
Point Review Council at any piece of content — a deck, a doc, a PDF — and it produces a review based on a panel of personas. Each persona reads the same content, writes a short individual reaction, then the council attempts to construct a combined view.
Mechanically, it's one skill invocation. Conceptually, it's seven small reviewers in a trench coat. The output is structured: each persona's take, followed by an integrated verdict.
One skill, many viewpoints. Review Council folds a multi-reviewer process into a single call so you can stress-test content from several angles in one pass.
It's tempting to think of this as just "ask the AI to review my deck." The structural piece — distinct personas with distinct lenses — is what makes the feedback land harder than a generic critique.
Personas live in a separate file the skill references
The personas aren't hard-coded into the skill prompt. They live in a separate file inside the skill folder, and the skill references that file at run time. That separation is the whole reason the skill is customizable: change the file, change the council.
This pattern — skill as engine, separate file as data — keeps the prompt logic stable while letting users tune the reviewer roster to their team, project, or content type.
Configuration as data, not prompt edits. Put the variable parts (personas, rubrics, taxonomies) in a referenced file so the skill itself stays clean.
A common assumption is that customizing a skill means rewriting it. With this pattern, customization is a content edit on a sidecar file — no prompt engineering required.
The seven defined personas
The council ships with seven reviewer personas, each tuned to a specific lens:
The Adversary — finds where the work falls apart on its own promises.
The Audience Proxy — reads as the intended reader, not the author.
The Architect — checks structural integrity and load-bearing arguments.
The Analyst — pressure-tests the data, math, and evidence.
The Storyteller — judges narrative arc, hook, and emotional pull.
The Operator — asks whether anyone could actually do what the content says.
The Strategist — weighs whether this matters at all in the bigger picture.
Together they cover the angles a single reviewer rarely holds all at once. The Adversary will trash a title; the Storyteller will defend it; the Strategist will reframe the whole point. The combined view is the negotiated truth between them.
Each persona is a forced lens. You don't need them all to agree — you need the spread, because that's where blind spots become visible.
Flashcards — Foundations
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PMP Skills Library
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A shared community library of SharePoint skills hosted on the PMP GitHub. Lets contributors publish reusable skills so other teams grab and customize them instead of rebuilding.
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Review Council Skill
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A SharePoint skill that reviews any content through a panel of defined personas, returns each persona's short take, and synthesizes a combined verdict.
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Persona File
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A separate file inside the skill folder defining each reviewer persona. The skill references this file at run time — edit the file to change the council.
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Seven Personas
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Adversary, Audience Proxy, Architect, Analyst, Storyteller, Operator, Strategist — the default reviewer lenses, each tuned to expose a different kind of blind spot.