bet-sizing

bet-sizing is a skill for Claude Code from assimovt/productskills. It costs 56 tokens per session (849 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for evaluating product initiatives by considering how reversible the decision is and how much work the initiative should receive. Shape Up is a product-planning method based on a fixed amount of time and a defined scope of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify decisions, assess product bets, set an appropriate work appetite, and prepare a structured pitch for a feature or project.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid spending excessive time deciding about reversible changes while giving proper care to decisions that are difficult to undo.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the product-skills plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to classify decisions, assess product bets, set an appropriate work appetite, and prepare a structured pitch for a feature or project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/assimovt/productskills/bet-sizing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add assimovt/productskills --skill bet-sizing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/assimovt/productskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 849 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00056 $0.00849
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00425
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured 11d ago against content hash 66375c7efceb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bet-sizing 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 11d 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.

skills/bet-sizing/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Size product bets by separating reversible from irreversible decisions and shaping work to fit an appetite. Most product bets are Type 2 decisions — reversible, low-cost to try, high-cost to deliberate. Move fast on those. Save deliberation for Type 1 decisions that are hard to undo.

Type 1 vs Type 2 Decisions (Bezos)

Type 1 (Irreversible): One-way doors. Hard to undo once committed.

  • Choosing a core technology/platform
  • Pricing model changes that affect existing customers
  • Killing a product line
  • Public commitments (partnerships, integrations)

Type 2 (Reversible): Two-way doors. Easy to undo or iterate.

  • Most new features (can ship, measure, remove)
  • UI/UX changes (can A/B test or revert)
  • Internal tooling decisions
  • Most API additions (harder to remove, but additive is safer)

Rule: Use lightweight process for Type 2. Use deliberate process for Type 1. Most product teams over-process Type 2 decisions and under-process Type 1 decisions.

Shape Up Pitch Format

When proposing a bet, structure it as a Shape Up pitch:

1. Problem

A specific story showing real pain. Not an abstract need — a concrete situation with a real user.

"When a PM finishes a customer interview, they spend 45 minutes transcribing notes into a PRD. By the time they're done, the emotional context is gone and the PRD reads like a requirements list."

2. Appetite

How much time is this worth? Not how long it will take — how much you're willing to invest.

  • Small bet: 1-2 weeks
  • Medium bet: 3-4 weeks
  • Large bet: 6 weeks (maximum for Shape Up)

If you can't fit the solution in the appetite, reshape or kill it.

3. Solution

Breadboard-level, not pixel-perfect. Show the key interactions and flows without getting into visual design. Fat-marker sketches, flow diagrams, or written walkthroughs.

4. Rabbit Holes

Known risks and unknowns that could blow up the timeline. For each: what's the risk and how will you mitigate it?

5. No-Gos

What's explicitly excluded. This is as important as what's included — it prevents scope creep during execution.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 11d ago First seen · 78 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 66375c7efceb

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bet-sizing is a skill published in the GitHub repository assimovt/productskills (68 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 849 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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