pm-rfc

pm-rfc is a command for Claude Code from VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm. It costs 34 tokens per session (764 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product RFC, or Request for Comments, drafting command for a strategic or architectural product decision. It compares two or three options by benefits, costs, reversibility, and confidence before recommending one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine competing approaches to a product or architecture decision and prepare a reasoned recommendation.
Why use it?
It makes trade-offs visible before the team commits to a direction. This helps distinguish decisions that are easy to change from decisions that are costly to undo.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the great-pm plugin — 114 skills, 34 commands, 48 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine competing approaches to a product or architecture decision and prepare a reasoned recommendation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/pm-rfc
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 114 skills, 34 commands, 48 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 764 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.00764
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00306
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00076

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 55b817ef205c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-rfc scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/pm-rfc.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the great-pm /pm-rfc command. Draft a product RFC on the proposed topic so the call is made with eyes open.

Operating procedure

  1. Step 0 — refine the user's query (transparent Mode B). Invoke query-refiner-pm with $ARGUMENTS. The refiner returns:

    You typed:  <original>
    
    Refined to: <refined brief>
    
    What changed: <one line>
    
    Proceeding with refined. Reply "use original" to override.
    

    Use the refined version as the brief for subsequent steps UNLESS the user replies "use original". Log the refinement to .great-pm/refinements/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log. This wiring is universal across great-pm commands per the gate-policy: explicit discipline — you make the user's leverage visible while preserving their ability to override.

  2. Parse the topic from $ARGUMENTS. If too vague to frame → ask one clarifying question, then proceed.

  3. Spawn tradeoff-arbiter to surface 2–3 honest options, each with:

    • What it gets
    • What it costs (scope, time, resources, debt, vendor lock-in)
    • Reversibility (Type-1 / Type-2)
    • Confidence
  4. Spawn pm-reviewer to stress-test the recommended option via skeptical-triage if the call is contested.

  5. Compose the RFC at .great-pm/drafts/RFC-<slug>.md with this exact shape:

    # RFC — <topic>
    Date: <YYYY-MM-DD>
    Status: PROPOSED
    
    ## Problem
    <One paragraph: what decision is being made, why now.>
    
    ## Options
    
    ### Option A — <name>
    What we get:      <one line>
    What it costs:    <scope / time / resources / debt>
    Reversibility:    Type-1 (one-way door) | Type-2 (two-way door)
    Confidence:       <low | medium | high>
    
    ### Option B — <name>
    ...
    
    ### Option C — Do nothing
    (Always include — often a real choice.)
    
    ## Recommendation
    <option> because <reason>. Confidence: <level>.
    
    ## Signal that would flip the recommendation
    <one-line>
    
    ## Open questions for the human
    1. <question>
    
    ## Decision: PENDING HUMAN APPROVAL
    
  6. Surface the RFC to the user. STOP for the call.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 55b817ef205c

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pm-rfc is a command published in the GitHub repository VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 764 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-21.