# Workshop Facilitation

Facilitate workshop sessions in a one-step, multi-turn flow.

- Repository: https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills (7825 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-10-16
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill workshop-facilitation -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill workshop-facilitation -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill workshop-facilitation -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill workshop-facilitation -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills`

## Description

Facilitate workshop sessions in a one-step, multi-turn flow. Use when an interactive skill needs consistent pacing, options, and progress tracking.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

## Purpose
Provide the canonical facilitation pattern for interactive skills: one step at a time, with clear progress, adaptive recommendations at decision points, and predictable interruption handling.

## Input

**Nothing required**, this skill defines the facilitation protocol other interactive skills follow.
**Also useful:** If invoked standalone, name the session you want facilitated and any context for it; that context carries into the session as answers already given.

Anything supplied with the invocation itself, text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line, counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask.

**Arriving empty-handed? That works too.** When another skill references this protocol, that skill's Input section governs what to provide.

**Example invocation:** `Facilitate a 45-minute retro on our failed beta launch using this protocol.`

## Key Concepts
- **One-step-at-a-time:** Ask a single targeted question per turn.
- **Session heads-up + entry mode:** Start by setting expectations and offering `Guided`, `Context dump`, or `Best guess` mode.
- **Progress visibility:** Show user-facing progress labels like `Context Qx/8` and `Scoring Qx/5`.
- **Decision-point recommendations:** Use enumerated options only when a choice is needed, not after every answer.
- **Quick-select response options:** For regular context/scoring questions, provide concise numbered answer options plus `Other (specify)` when useful.
- **Flexible selection parsing:** Accept `#1`, `1`, `1 and 3`, `1,3`, or custom text, then synthesize multi-select choices.
- **Context-aware progression:** Build on previous answers and avoid re-asking resolved questions.
- **Interruption-safe flow:** Answer meta questions directly (for example, "how many left?"), restate status, then resume.
- **Fast path:** If the user requests a single-shot output, skip multi-turn facilitation and deliver a condensed result.

The rest: https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/blob/HEAD/skills/workshop-facilitation/SKILL.md