data-product-thinking

data-product-thinking is a skill for Claude Code from hollandkevint/data-product-operator. It costs 65 tokens per session (741 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to make data-product decisions from basic principles instead of starting with dashboards or pipelines. A data product is a data-based tool designed to help users make decisions or achieve an outcome.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape data-product strategy, compare building with buying, define useful features, assess product-market fit, and evaluate risks such as customer value, data quality, and adoption.
Why use it?
It keeps teams focused on trust, useful outcomes, ownership, and customer value rather than simply producing more reports, models, or technical components.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the data-product-operator plugin — 18 skills, 7 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to shape data-product strategy, compare building with buying, define useful features, assess product-market fit, and evaluate risks such as customer value, data quality, and adoption.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hollandkevint/data-product-operator/data-product-thinking
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hollandkevint/data-product-operator --skill data-product-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hollandkevint/data-product-operator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install data-product-operator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 7 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 741 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 $0.00065 $0.00741
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00074

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5491c949b9f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-product-thinking 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.

skills/data-product-thinking/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Core Principles

Apply these when making data product decisions:

  1. Trust over features. A single data quality incident can destroy months of trust. One bad number in a board deck costs more than a delayed feature. Protect data accuracy before adding capabilities.

  2. Outcomes over outputs. "47 dashboards and no answers" is the failure mode. Define what decisions the data product enables before defining what data it needs. Measure decisions enabled, revenue generated, time saved. Not models deployed or dashboards built.

  3. Teams over tools. Technology is 20% of data product success. The other 80% is people, process, and product thinking. Don't lead with tool selection.

  4. Uncertainty over certainty. Fix the time, vary the scope. Six-week cycles with variable scope beat two-week sprints with fixed scope for data products, where discovery is continuous.

  5. Ownership over handoffs. Every handoff loses context. The team that discovers the problem should own it through delivery.

Five-Risk Evaluation Model

Before committing to any data product bet, evaluate all five risks:

  1. Value risk - Will customers actually use this? (Validate with 3+ customer data points)
  2. Usability risk - Can they figure it out without training?
  3. Feasibility risk - Can we build it with available data and infrastructure?
  4. Business viability risk - Does it work for the business model?
  5. Ethical data risk - Can we build it without bias, privacy violations, or unintended harm? (This is the 5th risk unique to data products. See ethical-risk-assessment for the full framework.)

CRITICAL: Never skip ethical data risk. A technically correct model that produces biased outcomes is worse than no model.

Decision Framing

ALWAYS start with the problem, not the data. "Payers need to reduce readmissions" before "we have claims data."

ALWAYS define success metrics before data requirements. Build an outcome metric tree:

  • Business outcome (reduce readmissions 10%)
  • Product outcome (clinical decisions 3x faster)
  • Feature outcome (risk scores updated real-time)
  • Leading indicator (query latency under 1 second)

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 9d ago First seen · 61 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 5491c949b9f5

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data-product-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository hollandkevint/data-product-operator (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 741 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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