write-a-prd

write-a-prd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adrielp/ai-engineering-harness. It costs 60 tokens per session (651 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of write-a-prd, Apache-2.0.

A product requirements document (PRD) writer that turns a client brief into a structured plan saved in issues/prd.md. It asks questions, checks the codebase, and outlines the main modules to build or change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a feature, clarify its problem and solution, plan code changes, and identify modules that should be tested separately.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague request into shared decisions, testable parts, and a written plan before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adrielp/ai-engineering-harness/write-a-prd
Any agent
npx skills add adrielp/ai-engineering-harness --skill write-a-prd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adrielp/ai-engineering-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 651 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00060 $0.00651
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00065

Measured 5d ago against content hash 61681e149590, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-a-prd 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to write-a-prd — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

claude/skills/write-a-prd/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This skill will be invoked when the user wants to create a PRD. You may skip steps if you don't consider them necessary.

  1. Ask the user for a long, detailed description of the problem they want to solve and any potential ideas for solutions.

  2. Explore the repo to verify their assertions and understand the current state of the codebase.

  3. Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until you reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one.

  4. Sketch out the major modules you will need to build or modify to complete the implementation. Actively look for opportunities to extract deep modules that can be tested in isolation.

A deep module (as opposed to a shallow module) is one which encapsulates a lot of functionality in a simple, testable interface which rarely changes.

Check with the user that these modules match their expectations. Check with the user which modules they want tests written for.

  1. Once you have a complete understanding of the problem and solution, use the template below to write the PRD. The PRD should be written as a local markdown file at issues/prd.md. Create the issues/ directory if it doesn't exist. Do NOT submit a GitHub issue or call any external service.

Problem Statement

The problem that the user is facing, from the user's perspective.

Solution

The solution to the problem, from the user's perspective.

User Stories

A LONG, numbered list of user stories. Each user story should be in the format of:

  1. As an , I want a , so that

This list of user stories should be extremely extensive and cover all aspects of the feature.

Implementation Decisions

A list of implementation decisions that were made. This can include:

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 5d ago First seen · 76 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 61681e149590

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write-a-prd is a skill published in the GitHub repository adrielp/ai-engineering-harness (20 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 651 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to write-a-prd, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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