prd-authoring

An early planning workflow for turning a product idea into a product brief, research plan, and PRD. A PRD, or Product Requirements Document, explains a product's goals, requirements, and measures of success.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft a product brief, create a research document, produce a full PRD, validate an existing PRD, or break a PRD into larger development pieces.
Why use it?
It helps clarify a vague idea and validate its requirements before detailed technical specifications and implementation work begin.

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/bodangren/git-workflow/prd-authoring
Any agent
npx skills add bodangren/git-workflow --skill prd-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bodangren/git-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,698 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 $0.00063 $0.01698
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00849
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00170

Measured 2d ago against content hash 67aa9a844b90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-authoring 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/prd-authoring.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/prd-authoring/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PRD Authoring Skill

Purpose

To accelerate and enhance early-stage project planning by using a powerful generative AI to create high-quality first drafts of key strategic documents. This skill integrates the Gemini CLI into the PRD authoring workflow, transforming it from a manual template-filling exercise into a dynamic, AI-assisted process.

The skill guides users from a vague project idea to a well-defined Product Requirements Document (PRD) by:

  • Generating a Product Brief: Creates a comprehensive brief from a simple project name.
  • Generating a Research Plan: Uses the product brief to generate a targeted research document.
  • Generating a full PRD: Synthesizes the brief and research into a detailed PRD with objectives, requirements, and success criteria.

This approach bridges the gap between "we have an idea" and "we're ready to write specs" with unprecedented speed and quality.

When to Use

Use this skill in the following situations:

  • Starting a new project from an initial concept.
  • Generating a first draft of a product brief, research plan, or PRD.
  • Validating an existing PRD against quality standards.
  • Breaking down a PRD into epics for sprint planning.

Do NOT use this skill for:

  • Implementation-level specifications (use spec-authoring instead).
  • Sprint planning from approved specs (use sprint-planner instead).

Prerequisites

  • Project initialized with AgenticDev structure (docs/ directory exists).
  • gemini CLI tool installed and authenticated.

PRD Philosophy

Strategy Before Tactics: PRDs define WHAT we're building and WHY before specs define HOW we'll build it. This skill uses AI to rapidly generate the "WHAT" and "WHY" so that teams can focus on review, refinement, and strategic alignment.


Workflow Commands

The status Command

Purpose

Assess project readiness and provide guidance on next workflow steps. This is the recommended starting point.

Workflow

Run the status check to understand the current state of your PRD documents.

bash scripts/prd-authoring.sh status [project-name]

The script will report which documents exist (product-brief.md, research.md, prd.md, etc.) and recommend the next logical command to run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 210 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 67aa9a844b90

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prd-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository bodangren/git-workflow (11 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,698 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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