ai-feature-kill-criteria

ai-feature-kill-criteria is a skill for Claude Code from Abhillashjadhav/AI-PM-essential-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (897 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision framework for testing whether an AI feature is worth building or continuing. It defines assumptions, evidence to collect, limits for stopping, and a date for deciding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning experiments around user needs, AI behavior, expected outcomes, costs, privacy, safety, workflow fit, and adoption before committing engineering effort.
Why use it?
It prevents an appealing AI demonstration from becoming an open-ended project. Teams can compare real results with predefined success and failure thresholds.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-feature-kill-criteria plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Planning experiments around user needs, AI behavior, expected outcomes, costs, privacy, safety, workflow fit, and adoption before committing engineering effort.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhillashjadhav/ai-pm-essential-skills/ai-feature-kill-criteria
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add Abhillashjadhav/AI-PM-essential-skills --skill ai-feature-kill-criteria
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhillashjadhav/AI-PM-essential-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-feature-kill-criteria, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 897 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 $0.00072 $0.00897
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00090

Measured 12d ago against content hash 582c18848bd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-feature-kill-criteria 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 12d 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.

ai-feature-kill-criteria/skills/ai-feature-kill-criteria/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Feature Kill Criteria

Prevent attractive AI demos from turning into open-ended investments.

Required input

Ask for only what is missing:

  1. The user problem and target user.
  2. The proposed AI behavior.
  3. The business or customer outcome expected.
  4. Known constraints such as latency, cost, privacy, safety, or workflow fit.
  5. The maximum evidence budget: time, users, data, or engineering effort.

Do not accept "we will know when we see it" as a success definition.

Workflow

1. Separate the demo from the product claim

Write the product claim in this form:

For [user], [AI behavior] will improve [observable outcome] because [mechanism].

Flag any part that is an aspiration rather than evidence.

2. Extract the assumptions

Create 3-7 assumptions across these categories:

  • problem: the pain is frequent and important;
  • behavior: users will trust, understand, and act on the output;
  • capability: the system can perform on realistic inputs;
  • workflow: the feature fits the real sequence of work;
  • economics: latency and cost are viable at expected volume;
  • risk: privacy, safety, compliance, and misuse remain inside acceptable bounds;
  • adoption: the target user can discover and repeatedly use it.

Each assumption must be falsifiable. Replace vague wording such as "users will like it" with a measurable observation.

3. Define a kill threshold for every critical assumption

Use this format:

Assumption Evidence to collect Continue threshold Kill threshold Decision owner

A kill threshold must be observable and time-bounded. Examples:

  • fewer than 4 of 10 target users complete the task without expert help;
  • factual accuracy remains below 95% on the original failure set after two model or prompt iterations;
  • p95 latency exceeds 3 seconds under expected concurrency;
  • cost per completed task exceeds the current human-assisted path;
  • more than 2% of high-risk outputs require correction;
  • the workflow saves less than five minutes per task after two weeks of use.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 12d ago First seen · 113 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 582c18848bd0

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ai-feature-kill-criteria is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhillashjadhav/AI-PM-essential-skills (4 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 897 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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