The 37signals Way
Ship lean, opinionated products the Basecamp way
- What
- Ship lean, opinionated products the Basecamp way
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none — pure methodology knowledge, no tools, no accounts, no code.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — the 37signals product philosophy (Getting Real, Rework, Shape Up) as an advisory skill: build less and underdo the competition, shape work into bounded six-week bets with explicit appetites, kill backlogs and zombie projects with a circuit breaker, run three-person autonomous teams on hill charts, and make opinionated defaults instead of endless preferences. Discovered via skills.sh. By @wondelai, listed here with credit to its creator. Honest caveats: this is pure methodology knowledge — no code, no tools, no automation; it scores plans 0–10 against the philosophy, which is opinionated by design and not a fit for every team or regulated environment; the original books are worth reading for depth. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Not verified.
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Install
Prerequisites: none — pure methodology knowledge, no tools, no accounts, no code. Install "The 37signals Way" for me. It gives Muse the 37signals product philosophy (Getting Real, Rework, Shape Up): build less, shape work into six-week bets with set appetites, run betting tables with a circuit breaker, keep teams small and autonomous, and make opinionated defaults. Repository: https://github.com/wondelai/skills 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file (and any helper files) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "37signals-way". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and how to trigger it (e.g. mention "Shape Up", "six-week cycle", "appetite", "betting table" or ask it to score a product plan 0-10 against the philosophy). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.