what-if

what-if is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-analysis aid that estimates the effects and trade-offs of a proposed change using existing organisational context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess changes to product priorities, target customers, experiments, team scope, investment choices, or timelines.
Why use it?
It helps expose likely risks, consequences, and competing priorities before a decision is made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess changes to product priorities, target customers, experiments, team scope, investment choices, or timelines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hardiktiwari/pm-operating-os/what-if
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 hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS --skill what-if
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,029 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 $0.00043 $0.01029
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00103

Measured 10d ago against content hash b8d477604a6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

what-if 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 10d 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/what-if/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What-If Simulation

Simulate the impact of a proposed product decision by reasoning over accumulated organizational context — strategy, past decisions, customer feedback, and execution history. This is the "world model" layer: if the system can answer "what if" grounded in real context, it's more than a search index.

When to Use

  • Evaluating a proposed prioritization change ("What if we deprioritize mobile?")
  • Assessing a strategic pivot ("What if we shift ICP from SMB to enterprise?")
  • Analyzing experiment patterns ("We've killed 3 pricing experiments — what does that mean?")
  • Trade-off decisions ("Should we invest in feature A or feature B?")
  • Risk assessment ("What's the blast radius of cutting this team's scope?")
  • When asked "what if", "what would happen", "simulate", "impact analysis", or "trade-off analysis"

Process

1. Clarify the Hypothetical

Ask if not clear from context:

  • Proposed action: What change is being considered? (1 sentence)
  • Scope: What does it affect? (product, team, segment, timeline)
  • Constraint: Is this reversible? What's the time horizon?

2. Load Context

Read the following to ground the simulation in actual organizational context:

  • knowledge/ (strategy, segments, metrics, competitive landscape) — the baseline "world model"
  • memory/decisions/ — past decision traces for precedent and pattern
  • memory/feedback/ — customer signals that would be affected
  • memory/weekly-plans/ — current execution state and momentum
  • memory/strategy-reviews/ — alignment patterns and recurring gaps

3. Run the Simulation

For the proposed action, analyze:

A. Strategic Impact

  • Which strategic pillars does this strengthen? Which does it weaken?
  • Does this move toward or away from stated goals?
  • Precedent: have similar decisions been made before? What happened?

B. Customer Impact

  • Which customer segments are affected? (reference knowledge/customer-segments.md)
  • Does customer feedback data support or contradict this direction?
  • What customer pain points get addressed vs. neglected?

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 10d ago First seen · 128 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A b8d477604a6a

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what-if is a skill published in the GitHub repository hardiktiwari/PM-operating-OS (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,029 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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