writing-feature-prds

writing-feature-prds is a skill for Claude Code from jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins. It costs 43 tokens per session (7,310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for creating a feature PRD, or Product Requirements Document—a written plan for one buildable software feature. It also reviews the plan, tracks it as a GitHub issue, and prepares the work for implementation planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a feature, defining requirements, creating a specification or PRD, and preparing a feature for implementation.
Why use it?
It helps turn a feature idea into clear requirements before coding begins. The review step finds missing details and ambiguities early.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the handsonai plugin — 12 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a feature, defining requirements, creating a specification or PRD, and preparing a feature for implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins/writing-feature-prds
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 jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins --skill writing-feature-prds
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install handsonai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 agent.

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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 7,310 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 $0.07310
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.03655
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01462
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00731

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1933a6fd9cd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-feature-prds 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.

plugins/handsonai/skills/writing-feature-prds/SKILL.md · 454 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 454 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feature PRD Workflow

Guide the user through creating a well-defined feature PRD (Product Requirements Document) before implementation.

Important: A PRD describes one feature — a single, buildable piece of work. If the user's idea is bigger than one feature (multiple epics, many capabilities), they should run /agentic-coding:writing-vision-briefs first to break it down. This skill takes one feature as input, not an entire vision.

When to Use This Skill

  • User wants to build a new feature
  • User mentions "create a spec", "create a PRD", "new feature", or "feature PRD"
  • User wants to define requirements before coding
  • User has completed a Vision Brief and is ready to spec out one of the features from the breakdown

Workflow Overview

Phase Goal
1. Define Create PRD in a specs/ directory
2. Stress-test Review for gaps and ambiguities
3. Track GitHub issue with type:feature label
4. Handoff Move to plan mode for implementation planning

Phase 1: Define the Feature

First, figure out where the user is coming from:

Path A — Coming from a Vision Brief (recommended flow): If the user references a Vision Brief or a specific feature from a breakdown (e.g., "Write a PRD for email verification from specs/onboarding-vision.md"):

  1. Read the Vision Brief
  2. Find the specific feature in the Feature Breakdown section
  3. Systematically translate each Vision Brief section into PRD content using this mapping:
Vision Brief Section PRD Section How to Translate
The Problem Motivation Scope the problem to this specific feature. Keep quantification from the brief.
Who Feels It User Stories Use as the user type(s) in story format.
Stakeholders (note in issue) Carry over to the GitHub issue body for review assignments.
Current State Motivation Add as context for why the current state is insufficient.
Alternatives Considered Design Constraints Note what was ruled out and why — these become constraints.
Strategic Context Motivation Include urgency signals that apply to this feature.
The Vision Summary Scope the vision statement down to this one feature.
Key Capabilities User Stories + AC Map relevant capabilities to stories with [MUST]/[SHOULD]/[COULD] criteria.
Inspiration UI/UX Requirements Pull in relevant design references for user-facing features.
What Success Looks Like Success Metrics Translate early signals and real outcomes into measurable metrics for this feature.
Risks & Assumptions Open Questions + Assumptions Risks you're unsure about → Open Questions. Things you're relying on being true but won't build/verify → the Assumptions section.
Dependencies Dependencies & Prerequisites Carry over dependencies relevant to this feature.
Constraints & Context Design Constraints + NFRs Split into design constraints and non-functional requirements.
Future Considerations Future Considerations Carry over items relevant to this feature's domain.

Read the full file on GitHub · 454 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. 9d ago First seen · 454 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 1933a6fd9cd2

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writing-feature-prds is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 7,310 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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