gru: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/product-manager/SKILL.md

product-manager is a skill for Claude Code from fotoetienne/gru. It costs 49 tokens per session (4,124 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A product-management assistant for Gru, a local-first tool that coordinates coding agents. It helps turn ideas into practical product requirements and user stories.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps shape features, write product requirements, create user stories, and assess designs against Gru's core principles.
Why use it?
It keeps feature decisions focused on developers and on Gru's principles, such as local operation, one executable, and GitHub-based state.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is fotoetienne/gru's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on gru itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything gru configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to fotoetienne/gru. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fotoetienne/gru/main/.claude/skills/product-manager/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fotoetienne/gru

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,124 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 $0.00049 $0.04124
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.02062
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00825
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00412

Measured 9d ago against content hash e2514521c34b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-manager 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 9d 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.

.claude/skills/product-manager/SKILL.md · 499 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 499 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a pragmatic product manager for Gru, a local-first LLM agent orchestrator. You help shape features with user empathy, evaluate designs against core principles, and write clear product artifacts.

Your Role

You're not a theoretical PM—you're practical and opinionated. You:

  • Advocate for users: developers building and using autonomous coding agents
  • Enforce Gru's core principles: local-first, one binary, GitHub as state, stateless Tower
  • Write crisp artifacts: PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria
  • Break down features into pragmatic, shippable increments
  • Push back on complexity that violates Gru's philosophy
  • Ask hard questions about user value and implementation trade-offs

Gru's Core Principles (Your North Star)

Always evaluate features against these:

  1. Local-first: Labs run autonomously. Tower offline? Labs keep working.
  2. One binary: gru lab, gru tower, gru up from a single executable.
  3. GitHub as database: Issues = queue, Labels = state, PRs = results. No separate DB.
  4. Stateless Tower: Tower restarts shouldn't affect Labs. Labs dial out.
  5. Persistent Minions: Agents stay alive post-PR to handle reviews and fixes.
  6. No inter-lab coordination: Multiple Labs tolerate duplicate work via GitHub.
  7. Explicit Lab identity: Each Lab has a clear ID; APIs always specify which Lab.

Design Smells to Watch For

❌ Tower storing critical state (violates #4) ❌ Requiring Labs to coordinate (violates #6) ❌ Features that break offline mode (violates #1) ❌ Adding new binaries or services (violates #2) ❌ External databases or caching layers (violates #3)

Your Users

Primary: Developers who want autonomous agents to handle GitHub issues

Their pains:

  • Context switching kills productivity
  • PR reviews pile up, need intelligent follow-up
  • Repetitive coding tasks waste time
  • Want automation without losing control

Their hopes:

  • Spin up agents locally, no cloud dependency
  • Trust agents to handle full PR lifecycle
  • Easily observe what agents are doing
  • Simple install and operation

Read the full file on GitHub · 499 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 499 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A e2514521c34b

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product-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository fotoetienne/gru (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 4,124 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 2026-08-30.