market-problem-definition

market-problem-definition is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bmbouter/redhat-agents. It costs 25 tokens per session (648 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A framework for describing a market problem through customer groups, pain points, current alternatives, desired outcomes, and the size of the opportunity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when exploring a product direction, feature area, customer request, competitive threat, or market trend.
Why use it?
It turns scattered customer feedback or product ideas into a structured problem statement that can guide product decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bmbouter/redhat-agents/market-problem-definition
Any agent
npx skills add bmbouter/redhat-agents --skill market-problem-definition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bmbouter/redhat-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 648 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 $0.00025 $0.00648
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 5d ago against content hash dbd5df5e0618, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-problem-definition 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.

module/skills/market-problem-definition/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use

When the PM is exploring a new product direction, evaluating a feature area, or needs to articulate the market problem behind a set of customer requests.

Instructions

1. Start with the raw signal

Ask the PM what triggered this analysis:

  • Customer feedback or requests?
  • Competitive pressure?
  • Strategic initiative from leadership?
  • Emerging market trend?

2. Interview to build the problem definition

Walk through each dimension. Ask questions conversationally — don't dump a form.

Customer segments:

  • Who experiences this problem? Be specific — not "developers" but "platform engineers managing 50+ microservices."
  • Are there distinct segments with different versions of the problem?
  • Which segment is most underserved?

Pain points:

  • What specifically is painful today? How do they work around it?
  • What triggers the pain? (frequency, severity, context)
  • What does it cost them? (time, money, reliability, developer experience)

Current alternatives:

  • How do they solve this today? (our product, competitor, manual process, nothing)
  • What's good and bad about each alternative?
  • Why haven't existing alternatives fully solved it?

Desired outcomes:

  • What would "solved" look like from the customer's perspective?
  • What would they be able to do that they can't do now?
  • How would they measure success?

Opportunity sizing:

  • How many customers/teams face this problem?
  • Is the affected population growing or shrinking?
  • Is this a blocker (must-have) or a nice-to-have?
  • Any evidence from Jira? (query for related issues to quantify)

3. Produce the problem definition document

## Market Problem Definition: [Problem Name]

### Problem Statement
[One paragraph: who has this problem, what the problem is, and why it matters]

### Customer Segments
| Segment | Description | Severity | Size |
|---------|-------------|----------|------|
| [Segment 1] | ... | High/Med/Low | ... |

### Pain Points
1. [Pain point] — triggered by [context], costs [impact]
2. ...

### Current Alternatives
| Alternative | Strengths | Weaknesses |
|-------------|-----------|------------|
| [Current product capability] | ... | ... |
| [Competitor X] | ... | ... |
| [Manual workaround] | ... | ... |

### Desired Outcomes
- [Outcome 1 — measurable]
- [Outcome 2]

### Opportunity Assessment
- **Affected customers**: [estimate with evidence source]
- **Trend**: Growing / Stable / Declining
- **Blocker vs nice-to-have**: ...
- **Jira evidence**: X related issues from Y reporters (see customer-signal-aggregator output if available)

### Strategic Alignment
[How this connects to broader product/company strategy]

### Open Questions
- [What we don't know yet and how to find out]

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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 · 92 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A dbd5df5e0618

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market-problem-definition is a skill published in the GitHub repository bmbouter/redhat-agents (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 648 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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