check-prd-alignment

A workflow for comparing code changes with a product requirements document, or PRD. It classifies requirements as covered, partial, missing, or different from the specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review git changes against requirements and acceptance criteria, check edge cases, and find implementation or user-experience improvements tied to product goals.
Why use it?
It reveals implementation gaps and deviations before a pull request or after a feature is finished.

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/chatprd/cursor-plugin/check-prd-alignment
Any agent
npx skills add ChatPRD/cursor-plugin --skill check-prd-alignment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChatPRD/cursor-plugin

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 535 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 $0.00535
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00053

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3ba3b07f9599, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-prd-alignment 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.

skills/check-prd-alignment/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Check PRD alignment

Trigger

User wants to verify their implementation matches the product requirements and find opportunities to better achieve the PRD's goals.

Workflow

  1. Identify what changed — run git diff against the base branch to see all modifications.
  2. Find the relevant PRD:
    • Ask the user which PRD to check against.
    • Search ChatPRD documents using search_documents with keywords from the branch or commit messages.
    • Also check the local prd/ directory for saved specs.
  3. Fetch the full PRD using get_document.
  4. Extract all requirements, acceptance criteria, and — critically — the user and business goals the PRD is trying to achieve.
  5. For each requirement, assess:
    • Covered: implemented and matching the spec
    • Partial: started but incomplete or missing edge cases
    • Missing: not addressed in the current changes
    • Deviated: implemented differently than specified
  6. Review the implementation through the lens of the PRD's stated goals. For each goal, identify Opportunity items — places where the UX or implementation could be improved to better achieve the goal. Examples:
    • A flow that technically meets the spec but adds unnecessary friction
    • An edge case where a better error message or fallback would improve the experience
    • A place where the implementation could be more delightful or intuitive than what was specced
    • A data model or API design choice that would better support the stated business goal
  7. Produce a coverage report with:
    • Requirement-by-requirement status
    • Specific code references for covered items
    • Actionable notes for gaps and deviations
    • Opportunity items tied back to specific PRD goals

Guardrails

  • Be specific — cite file paths and line ranges, not vague summaries.
  • Distinguish between intentional trade-offs and accidental omissions.
  • Don't flag requirements that are explicitly marked as out-of-scope or future work in the PRD.
  • Keep Opportunity items grounded and actionable — tie each one to a specific PRD goal and explain the concrete improvement.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. 2d ago First seen · 50 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 3ba3b07f9599

Subscribe to this mod's changes

check-prd-alignment is a skill published in the GitHub repository ChatPRD/cursor-plugin (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 535 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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