How to use North Star Metric Framework in your AI agent

What you'll get

This skill helps you identify your company's North Star Metric — the one customer-focused number that best captures the value you deliver and predicts business success. It walks you through classifying your business type (Attention, Transaction, or Productivity), validates your metric against proven criteria, and suggests 3-5 supporting metrics that drive your North Star. Perfect for founders and PMs setting up a metrics framework or deciding what really matters to measure.

Step 1 — Get the skill source URL

The North Star Metric Framework skill lives at:

Step 2 — Add it to your AI agent

Copy one of these prompts and paste it into your AI tool. The agent will fetch and install the skill for you.

Add the agent skill from https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-marketing-growth/skills/north-star-metric to my project.

Install this agent skill: https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-marketing-growth/skills/north-star-metric

Add this skill to .codex/skills/: https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-marketing-growth/skills/north-star-metric

Add the skill at https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-marketing-growth/skills/north-star-metric to my .gemini/skills/ directory.

Install this agent skill from https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-marketing-growth/skills/north-star-metric

Add this skill: https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-marketing-growth/skills/north-star-metric

Step 3 — Try these prompts

Once the skill is installed, ask your AI things like:

• Setting up a metrics framework and need to know what to measure
• Launching a product and want to pick the one metric that matters most
• Evaluating whether your current key metric is actually driving growth
• Align your team around a single, customer-focused success indicator

What this skill does

• Classifies your business into one of three types: Attention, Transaction, or Productivity
• Identifies a single North Star Metric that reflects customer value and predicts revenue
• Validates your metric against 7 criteria for effectiveness (understandable, customer-centric, actionable, etc.)
• Suggests 3-5 input metrics that directly influence your North Star and show where to focus efforts
• Explains why your North Star isn't just revenue or an OKR, but a leading indicator of success