# Project Manager (PM)

## Docs

- [Changelog — What's New in Each pm Release](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/changelog.md): Every pm release, its date, and what changed. Mirrors CHANGELOG.md in the pm plugin's repo.
- [/pm:changelog — Review What Changed Between Versions](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/changelog.md): Show pm's own CHANGELOG entries newer than a given version — what an upgrade brought, on demand or for a specific version range.
- [/pm:changesets — List Pending CHANGELOG Fragments](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/changesets.md): List .changesets/*.md fragment files a hierarchy child has written, so a release can consolidate them into CHANGELOG.md without a shared-header merge conflict.
- [/pm:detour — Park Current Work for an Interruption](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/detour.md): Classify a mid-build interruption as minimal or substantial: fix-and-log it fast, or push the current epic onto the detour stack to preserve context.
- [/pm:epic — Add, Update, Remove, and Manage Epics](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/epic.md): Add, update, remove, and manage epics in PM. Covers add, update-epic, remove-epic, add-many, set-active, clear-active, and set-autonomy subcommands.
- [/pm:feedback — File a Bug Report or Feature Request](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/feedback.md): File a bug or feature request to the PM repo from Claude Code. Checks for near-duplicate issues first and comments on matches instead of filing duplicates.
- [/pm:gate-guard — Block Writes While a Reconcile Is Owed](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/gate-guard.md): A PreToolUse hook that blocks writes while the active epic owes a reconcile. Always on for that case — running set-gate-guard off will not bypass it.
- [/pm:hierarchy — Plan and Dispatch a Multi-Agent Hierarchy](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/hierarchy.md): Plan and dispatch a parent epic's children as batched, worktree-isolated agents. Each child runs unattended in its own branch and merges back sequentially.
- [/pm:init — Initialize PM in Your Project Directory](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/init.md): Scaffold .conductor/state.json, register existing OpenSpec epics, write the CLAUDE.md rules block, and render PROJECT.md. Safe to re-run.
- [/pm:lane-routing — Customize Lane Assignment Rules](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/lane-routing.md): Define keyword or glob rules that override PM's lane heuristic — so 'billing always goes through openspec' becomes a durable rule, not a one-time note.
- [/pm:next — Get a Concrete Next-Work Recommendation](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/next.md): PM reads the current state and recommends exactly one thing to work on next, following the detour-stack-first, then priority-order decision rule.
- [/pm:resume — Resume a Paused Epic After a Detour](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/resume.md): Pop the detour stack, restore the paused epic to active, and run the reconcile gate — a fresh-context re-validation before any new code is written.
- [/pm:review-mode — Configure the Repo Review Intensity](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/review-mode.md): Set the repo review dial: off (self-review only), standard (one reviewer per gate), or thorough (two independent reviewers, adjudicated on disagreement).
- [/pm:status — Display the Current Project Briefing](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/status.md): Re-render PROJECT.md from state.json and display the full briefing: active epic, detour stack, next-up queue, lane counts, and tracker sync status.
- [/pm:sync — Register New Proposals and External Issues](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/sync.md): Scan for new OpenSpec proposals, Superpowers plans, or GitHub Issues not yet tracked as epics and register them. Deduplicates automatically.
- [/pm:tracker — Connect an External Tracker to Your Repo](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/tracker.md): Mirror epics to Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues, or any tracker. PM shapes the sync instructions; your agent executes them using your existing tooling.
- [/pm:upgrade — Migrate State and Refresh PM Rules](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/commands/upgrade.md): Refresh the CLAUDE.md managed rules block, run any pending state migrations, re-render PROJECT.md, and stamp the new pmVersion. Safe to run more than once.
- [The Detour Stack: Resumable Interruptions](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/concepts/detour-stack.md): The PM detour stack is an explicit PUSH/POP mechanism that parks current work when an interruption hits, preserving full context for a clean resume later.
- [Epics and Lanes: How PM Organizes Work](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/concepts/epics-and-lanes.md): Epics are PM's unit of work. Every epic is tagged with a lane that determines its workflow: openspec, superpowers, claude-code, decision, or external.
- [The Reconcile Gate: Safe Resumption After Detours](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/concepts/reconcile-gate.md): The reconcile gate runs a fresh-context re-validation of your paused epic against what the detour actually shipped, before any new code is written.
- [State Files: How PM Persists Project Context](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/concepts/state-and-project.md): PM persists all state in .conductor/state.json and renders PROJECT.md from it. Learn what each file contains and the rules around editing them.
- [PM's Perfect Quartet: OpenSpec, Superpowers, and Honcho](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/guides/companion-plugins.md): PM works standalone but was designed to pair with OpenSpec, Superpowers, and Honcho. Each companion adds a layer PM deliberately does not own.
- [The Daily PM Workflow in Claude Code: Start to Commit](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/guides/daily-workflow.md): A practical guide to using PM day-to-day: starting sessions, checking status, picking work, and keeping your epic queue healthy across context compactions.
- [Connect PM to Jira, Linear, or GitHub Issues Trackers](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/guides/external-trackers.md): Configure PM to mirror epics to an external issue tracker. PM shapes the instructions; your agent executes them with whatever tooling the project uses.
- [Handle Mid-Build Interruptions Without Losing Your Place](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/guides/handling-detours.md): Use PM's detour stack to park current work, build the interrupt, and resume cleanly — with a mandatory reconcile gate that re-validates your plan first.
- [Connect an AI Agent to PM's Documentation via MCP](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/guides/mcp-server.md): PM's docs site hosts a free, no-auth search MCP server at pm-plugin.dev/mcp. Connect Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, or VS Code so your agent can search and retrieve PM documentation on demand.
- [Run Multi-Agent Epic Batches with PM's Hierarchy Harness](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/guides/multi-agent-hierarchy.md): Dispatch a parent epic's children as worktree-isolated, unattended agents. PM converges their work back through sequential merge with zero data loss.
- [Project Manager (PM) — A Claude Code Project Management Plugin](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/index.md): A lightweight harness above OpenSpec and Superpowers that keeps a Claude Code project on track across detours, context compaction, and multiple epics in flight.
- [From Industry-Frontier Practice](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/industry-frontier-practice.md): PM's design choices aren't novel in isolation — they're borrowed, deliberately, from patterns that already work at scale elsewhere and adapted to an agentic coding session.
- [Install the PM Project Management Plugin for Claude Code](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/installation.md): Install the PM project-management plugin from the cfdude-plugins marketplace. Requires Node 18+ and Claude Code. No npm install needed.
- [PM Plugin](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/introduction.md)
- [PM Quick Start: Initialize, Triage, and Start Building](https://onvex-ai-admin-mcp-release-0-24-0-7b1e713.mintlify.site/quickstart.md): Initialize PM in your Claude Code project, triage your first epic, and get your first status briefing and work recommendation in under five minutes.