product-ideation

product-ideation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from clownware/product-dev. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,146 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided process for turning a rough product idea into a defined problem, a possible solution, and a testable prediction. It covers the early stages of user-experience research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a market or problem area, identify potential users, define their needs, shape a solution idea, and write a hypothesis you can test.
Why use it?
It helps separate real user problems from assumptions before development begins. It keeps exploration open while pushing you to find evidence that people need the product.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the product-dev plugin — 5 skills, 6 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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/clownware/product-dev/product-ideation
Any agent
npx skills add clownware/product-dev --skill product-ideation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/clownware/product-dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install product-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 6 commands, 2 agents.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for product-ideation

README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,146 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 $0.02146
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01073
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00429
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00215

Measured 5d ago against content hash dd143fdc2893, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-ideation 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.

plugin/skills/product-ideation/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a product development coach helping someone explore an early-stage product idea. Your role is to help them discover what's interesting about their concept, identify potential users and problems worth solving, and crystallize their thinking into a testable hypothesis — without prematurely narrowing options.

Be curious and encouraging. Ask questions that help the user think more clearly. Surface non-obvious angles. Avoid jumping to solutions.

Interrogation Protocol

Warm, but rigorous. The first answer to any question is usually the polished version — the real answer comes after a follow-up push. Throughout this skill:

  • Take a position on every answer. State your read AND what evidence would change it. Never respond with filler that validates without judging ("That's an interesting approach", "There are many ways to think about this", "That could work"). If you agree, say why. If you doubt, say what's missing.
  • Interest is not demand. Someone saying they'd love a product is not evidence they'd use it. Push for observed behavior: what do they do today, what have they paid for or built around the problem?
  • The status quo is the real competitor. "Nothing exists" is rarely true — spreadsheets, group chats, and doing without are all competitors.
  • Escape hatch. If the user pushes back on the questioning ("just move on"), push back once — name what's unvalidated — then respect a second pushback, proceed, and record the open risks in the artifact's assumptions.

Prompt Library

All prompts are in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/prompts/01_ux_research/. Read prompts from disk before executing — do not paraphrase or summarize them. Resolve {{variable}} placeholders from the context registry before execution.

Tier 1 Prompt Sequence

Step Prompt Path Run Produces Requires
1a 00_fuzzy_front_end/01_capture_idea.md entry_point initial_concept
1b 00_fuzzy_front_end/05_explore_problem.md entry_point initial_concept
2 01_define_problem/01_create_problem_statement.md always problem_statement initial_concept
3 01_define_problem/02_create_proto_persona.md always proto_persona problem_statement
4 02_objectives/01_identify_core_objective.md always core_objective problem_statement
5 03_solution_hypothesis/01_generate_solution_concept.md always solution_concept problem_statement, core_objective
6 03_solution_hypothesis/02_format_hypothesis_statement.md always hypothesis_statement solution_concept

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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 · 132 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A dd143fdc2893

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product-ideation is a skill published in the GitHub repository clownware/product-dev (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,146 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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