writing-prds

A guide for writing a product requirements document, or PRD: a short document describing what to build, who needs it, why it matters, and how success will be checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define user problems, goals, requirements, non-goals, risks, open questions, and ways to validate a product idea or feature.
Why use it?
It prevents product and engineering teams from starting work with unclear goals, scope, or measures of success.

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/baleen37/bstack/writing-prds
Any agent
npx skills add baleen37/bstack --skill writing-prds
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baleen37/bstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 247 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00040 $0.00247
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00123
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash bf542d344fed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-prds 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 2d 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.

plugins/me/skills/writing-prds/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Writing PRDs

Write a PRD when the work needs product alignment: what to build, who it is for, why it matters, and how success will be verified.

Rules

  • Keep it short and editable.
  • Focus on user value and product outcomes, not implementation.
  • Mark unknowns as assumptions or open questions.
  • Give every meaningful requirement a metric, test, demo path, or launch check.
  • If the main question is technical architecture, use writing-rfcs.

Template

# PRD: <feature or product>

## Summary
## User Problem
## Goals / Success Metrics
## Non-goals
## Requirements
## User Flow
## Risks / Assumptions
## Validation Plan
## Open Questions

Check

Before returning it, verify the PRD says why the work matters, what is out of scope, and how the team will know it worked.

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. 2d ago First seen · 42 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A bf542d344fed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-prds is a skill published in the GitHub repository baleen37/bstack (4 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 247 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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