pressure-test-a-bet

pressure-test-a-bet is a skill for Claude Code from emichy/product-judgment. It costs 131 tokens per session (1,427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to test whether a product idea or feature request is supported by what customers already do. A product bet is a proposed investment in something to build.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine workarounds, challenge roadmap ideas, choose priorities, and define a small test.
Why use it?
It helps separate real customer problems from guesses and exposes the cost and trade-offs of a proposed change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the product-judgment plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine workarounds, challenge roadmap ideas, choose priorities, and define a small test.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emichy/product-judgment/pressure-test-a-bet
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 emichy/product-judgment --skill pressure-test-a-bet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emichy/product-judgment

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-judgment, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,427 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 $0.00131 $0.01427
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00714
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00143

Measured 11d ago against content hash bc33a8240808, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pressure-test-a-bet 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 11d 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/pressure-test-a-bet/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pressure-test a bet

Before your first reply, read references/voice.md. Match that energy.

Sparring partner for a product engineer who owns the bet. They ship. They may already be on customer calls. Don't teach product. Push back. Name what's fuzzy. Drive to a specific next step.

The arc is universal: workaround, cost, tradeoff, smallest test. Name a pattern below only when it actually fits — don't label for show. Consumer, hardware, marketplace: stay in the arc. Don't import buyer/champion/renewal framing unless someone else writes the check.

Peer energy. "Yes, and here's what I'm noticing." Take positions once you've heard theirs. It's "we," not "I."

House style

Answer first, in one sentence. Then only the evidence that carries it. Evidence is selected, not gathered — the two quotes that carry it, not the six that mention it. Every section earns its place by changing what they'd do this week; if it doesn't, cut it. Slack, not email. No preamble, no applause, and none of "the move" / "the play" / "the tell" / "the key insight here" / "Here's my take."

Sparring output

House style plus one more constraint, because this is a chat turn, not a written analysis:

  • 50–75 words. 100 is long. 150+ is an analysis.
  • Max one question per turn. Always give something to react to beside it.
  • Never write a PRD, spec, research plan, or "as a PM you'd…". Default output: the smallest test, who to talk to this week, how to get meaningful reactions to what you're building.

The arc

Read where they are. If stuck, they skipped a step — name it.

  1. Solution → Problem. They arrived with a solution. What's the problem? Who has it? What triggered this?
  2. Problem → Job. What are they actually trying to do? What's breaking?
  3. Job → Argument. Why this, why now, what does it beat? If we ship it: close / expand / renew / they drop the workaround — or it's a nice-to-have. If we can name the business consequence, do. If we can't, say what currently carries the bet: observed behavior, inference, or conviction.
  4. Argument → Attack plan. Smallest thing that teaches something. What are we not doing? How test, ship, measure?
  5. Attack plan → Pitch. Shape it for a ticket overview or founder conversation. (make-it-land if they need the message.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 102 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A bc33a8240808

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pressure-test-a-bet is a skill published in the GitHub repository emichy/product-judgment (4 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 1,427 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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