Reference: PM Workflow Prompts

This page documents the main Copilot PM workflow prompts provided in this repository. Each prompt is a slash command you can run in Copilot Chat or VS Code to automate project management tasks.

Available Prompts

Prompt	Purpose
/pm-assistant	Conversational guide to the PM workflow
/pm-backlog-review	Review all issues/PRs, flag stale work, surface priorities, and report OSS suitability gaps for OSS repos. Uses repo priorities to decide which repos to scan and how to order candidates.
/pm-iteration-plan	Curate board for the next few days, resolve stalled items. Uses repo priorities to decide which repos to scan and how to order candidates.
/pm-daily	Daily nudge: what to focus on today
/pm-issue-triage	Triage and label unlabelled issues/PRs
/pm-create-story	Create a well-formed story issue

How Repo Priorities Affect Prompts

• Both /pm-backlog-review and /pm-iteration-plan read plan/REPO_PRIORITIES.md to determine which repos to scan for issues and how to order candidates.
• Both prompts also read plan/REPO_PM_PARTICIPATION.md to determine whether each repo is full, observe, or exclude.
• /pm-backlog-review also uses plan/REPO_PM_PARTICIPATION.md to apply OSS overrides for suitability checks. Public repos are treated as OSS by default, private repos are never OSS, and public repos can be explicitly opted out.
• Only Tier 1, 2, and 3 repos are scanned for issues. Not PM Tracked and Paused are skipped for issue scanning, but PRs from all non-exclude repos are always included.
• observe repos are included in review and planning, but skipped by /pm-issue-triage and shared label enforcement.

See Repository Priorities Reference for details on the file structure and rules.

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How to Use

• Run the prompt in Copilot Chat or VS Code (e.g., /pm-backlog-review).
• Follow the interactive guidance to review, triage, or plan work.
• See Tutorials for step-by-step guides.

Prompt Details

• pm-assistant: Entry point; interviews you about your goal and routes you to the right prompt.
• pm-backlog-review: Scans all repos, flags unlabelled or stale items, suggests priorities, and reports missing OSS suitability assets for OSS repos. The underlying OSS audit script also supports targeted follow-up runs for a single owner/repo when you need to inspect one repository in isolation.
• pm-iteration-plan: Reads board state, resolves stalled items, curates Up Next.
• pm-daily: Summarises board, flags top 3 items to focus on.
• pm-issue-triage: Applies labels and ensures board membership.
• pm-create-story: Creates a new story issue with standard format.

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For more, see the Operating Model.