opportunity-solution-tree

opportunity-solution-tree is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin. It costs 36 tokens per session (3,863 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of opportunity-solution-tree, MIT.

A visual framework that connects a desired product outcome to user problems, possible solutions, and tests. An Opportunity Solution Tree helps teams explore what to solve before choosing what to build.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for product discovery, problem framing, solution brainstorming, and choosing a proof-of-concept to test.
Why use it?
It turns vague stakeholder requests into clear problems and testable ideas. This reduces the risk of building features before confirming that they address a real need.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pm plugin — 9 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent 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/derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin/opportunity-solution-tree
Any agent
npx skills add derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin --skill opportunity-solution-tree
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,863 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00036 $0.03863
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01931
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00773
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00386

Measured 4d ago against content hash 90cd1bf80484, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

opportunity-solution-tree 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to opportunity-solution-tree — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/pm/pm-workflow/skills/opportunity-solution-tree/SKILL.md · 427 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 427 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Guide product managers through creating an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) by extracting target outcomes from stakeholder requests, generating opportunity options (problems to solve), mapping potential solutions, and selecting the best proof-of-concept (POC) based on feasibility, impact, and market fit. Use this to move from vague product requests to structured discovery, ensuring teams solve the right problems before jumping to solutions—avoiding "feature factory" syndrome and premature convergence on ideas.

This is not a roadmap generator—it's a structured discovery process that outputs validated opportunities with testable solution hypotheses.

Key Concepts

What is an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST)?

An OST is a visual framework (Teresa Torres, Continuous Discovery Habits) that connects:

  1. Desired Outcome (business goal or product metric)
  2. Opportunities (customer problems, needs, pain points, or desires that could drive the outcome)
  3. Solutions (ways to address each opportunity)
  4. Experiments (tests to validate solutions)

Structure:

         Desired Outcome (1)
                |
    +-----------+-----------+
    |           |           |
Opportunity  Opportunity  Opportunity (3)
    |           |           |
  +-+-+       +-+-+       +-+-+
  | | |       | | |       | | |
 S1 S2 S3    S1 S2 S3    S1 S2 S3 (9 total solutions)

Why This Works

  • Outcome-driven: Starts with business goal, not feature requests
  • Divergent before convergent: Explores multiple opportunities before picking solutions
  • Problem-focused: Opportunities are problems, not solutions disguised as problems
  • Testable: Each solution maps to experiments, not just "build it and ship"
  • POC selection: Evaluates feasibility, impact, market fit before committing resources

Anti-Patterns (What This Is NOT)

  • Not a feature list: Opportunities are problems customers face, not "we need dark mode"
  • Not solution-first: Don't start with "we should build X"—start with "customers struggle with Y"
  • Not waterfall planning: OST is a discovery tool, not a project plan
  • Not a one-time exercise: OSTs evolve as you learn from experiments

Read the full file on GitHub · 427 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago First seen · 427 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 90cd1bf80484

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opportunity-solution-tree is a skill published in the GitHub repository derricktang/pm-workflow-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,863 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to opportunity-solution-tree, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.