pm-skills vs oldhand
oldhand is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑22.
pm-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Avyayalaya. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot). oldhand is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Berwin Singh. No marketplace we read lists it any more. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-07. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  pm-skills | |
|---|---|---|
| Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot | Listed Version: 2.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 8 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace berwinsingh/oldhand | Not listed | Removed on 2026-10-22 Version: 2.0.1 Forks (GitHub): 2 Stars (GitHub): 7 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | pm-skills | oldhandno longer listed · |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 | 0 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 8 | 7 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs | Installs as a plugin bundle | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 13 | 11 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/avyayalaya/pm-skills-arsenal | github.com/berwinsingh/oldhand |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-15 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of oldhand
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Core skills: plan review, code review loops, backlog management, and thinking partners.
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Adds the unified okf-harness skill for workspace setup and daily maintenance through the pinned runtime launcher.
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A starter pack of 12 skills and 6 subagents for Product Managers.
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Workflow utilities and agents including code walkthrough tools, work logging, issue specification helpers, and a UI testing agent for browser-based validation
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A tested harness for durable work across coding agents: CLAUDE.md/CHECKPOINT.md state files, an orientation gate, an interview-before-you-build gate and other hooks, and seventeen…
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Complete development lifecycle plugin with built-in ticket management, Generator-Evaluator quality pipeline, and context conservation for long-running sessions.
What each says it does
pm-skills
MCP server and 12 skills for product analysis, specification writing, strategy, narrative, and stakeholder alignment. Run competitive analyses, write zero-question specs, design metrics, and produce executive-ready documents directly from Copilot.
oldhand
A pack of 11 skills: a conductor plus contract, trace, rca, research, plan, build, review, qa, ship and learn. Each stage does one job and writes to a shared task folder; a ledger script decides when the work is verified.
How to run each
pm-skills
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
oldhand
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: pm-skills · What it can do: oldhand · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/HEAD/.github/plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.