productskills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

productskills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from assimovt/productskills. It costs 936 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for AI coding assistants contributing to ProductSkills, a collection of short guides that teach product-management methods. It describes the repository structure and rules for writing skill files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding or editing product-team skills covering discovery, strategy, prioritization, scoping, and product requirements documents.
Why use it?
It helps contributors keep the guides consistent, concise, and based on established product methods rather than ad-hoc advice.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

This is assimovt/productskills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on productskills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything productskills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to assimovt/productskills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/assimovt/productskills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/assimovt/productskills

Made for: Claude Code.

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CLAUDE.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ProductSkills

Open-source AI agent skills for product teams. 16 skills built on real frameworks (Mom Test, Shape Up, Obviously Awesome, Teresa Torres, Linear Method, YC).

What This Repo Is

A collection of SKILL.md files that teach AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin) how to do product management work — discovery, strategy, prioritization, scoping, and PRD writing. Every skill is 50-150 lines, opinionated, and framework-driven.

Architecture

skills/[skill-name]/SKILL.md          # The skill (50-150 lines, YAML frontmatter)
skills/[skill-name]/references/*.md   # Optional deep-dive templates (loaded on demand)

Skills use Anthropic's SKILL.md standard:

  • YAML frontmatter with name and description only
  • Body: framework + ALWAYS/NEVER/CRITICAL rules
  • No role-setting ("You are an expert..."), no output format sections

Skill Design Rules

  1. 50-150 lines per SKILL.md. Context window is shared with user's code. No bloat.
  2. Opinionated. ALWAYS/NEVER/CRITICAL rules. "DO X" not "consider doing X."
  3. Framework-driven. Every skill is grounded in a real methodology (Teresa Torres, Shape Up, Mom Test, April Dunford, etc.). Never make up frameworks.
  4. Startup-calibrated. Assumes teams of 3-50. No SAFe, no RACI, no velocity theater.
  5. Examples > explanations. One concrete example beats three paragraphs of theory.
  6. No fluff files. No README, CHANGELOG, or docs per skill folder.

SKILL.md Format

---
name: skill-name
description: >
  One paragraph (~50 words). Must contain trigger phrases for when to use
  this skill. This is always loaded in context; body only loads when triggered.
---

Body pattern (adapt per skill):

[Opening line: what + philosophy, 1-2 sentences]

## [Core Framework]
[The methodology. This is 60%+ of the skill.]

## Guidelines
[ALWAYS/NEVER/CRITICAL rules]

Quality Bar

Anthropic's frontend-design skill is the benchmark: ~60 lines, immediately actionable, uses NEVER/CRITICAL for guardrails, philosophy over procedures. Trust the agent to execute within guidelines.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 10d ago First seen · 101 lines · 936 tokens per session scan A 6fc1c8261a82

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productskills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository assimovt/productskills (68 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 936 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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