product-thinking

product-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bostonaholic/team. It costs 26 tokens per session (348 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning lens for judging whether a proposed feature solves a real problem for a specific person. It guides planning agents but does not create files or block work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when framing a task, designing a solution, or deciding what to include in the first release.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid building technically interesting features that nobody needs, while keeping the first version small and testable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the team plugin — 89 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when framing a task, designing a solution, or deciding what to include in the first release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonaholic/team/product-thinking
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bostonaholic/team --skill product-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 89 skills, 13 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 348 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

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 $0.00026 $0.00348
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00174
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 3d ago against content hash c549d2c06bc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-thinking 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 3d 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/product-thinking/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Product Thinking

This reasoning lens produces no artifact and blocks nothing. It guides pre-implementation scope toward work a real person wants.

Core Lenses

  • Demand evidence over assertion: identify a real demand signal, not technical possibility.
  • Smallest thing people want: choose the thinnest valuable version; reject speculative work.
  • Build for someone specific, not nobody: name the person or role served; surface absent users.
  • Talk-to-users mindset: treat stated intent as a demand proxy and mark assumptions that lack validation.

When Framing the Task

For 1-task.md inferred goal and acceptance signals, ask: Who specifically is this for? What observable signal shows demand? What is the smallest version that serves them?

These questions affect 1-task.md framing only. Never put the goal or demand assumptions into 2-questions.md.

When Designing

For ## Decisions made and ## Out of scope, ask whether each decision serves a known rather than hypothetical need, where demand is assumed, and what thinnest design delivers the wanted outcome. Record uncertainty as an open question.

When Slicing

Ask whether slice 1 delivers something wanted rather than infrastructure, whether any slice serves nobody, and whether scope can shrink further. Cut or reorder slices that fail.

Lens, Not Dogma

Use judgment. This lens never gates the pipeline or requires extra user-research ceremony when stated intent identifies the user and demand. Empty/trivial tasks require no extra questions.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago Changed · -41 lines · -14 tokens per session c549d2c06bc7
  2. 8d ago First seen · 76 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A c45eb5fe49a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

product-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/team (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 348 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 2026-08-30.

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