prd-status

prd-status is a skill for Claude Code from jpoutrin/product-forge. It costs 11 tokens per session (945 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command for moving a product requirements document (PRD) through defined stages such as draft, review, approved, and complete. It updates the document’s metadata, history, and location as its status changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a requested status change, record the reason, update dates and approval details, and move the PRD within a Git project.
Why use it?
It keeps the document’s stage, audit trail, and folder location consistent, reducing manual updates and misplaced files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the product-design plugin — 43 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to validate a requested status change, record the reason, update dates and approval details, and move the PRD within a Git project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpoutrin/product-forge/prd-status
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 jpoutrin/product-forge --skill prd-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpoutrin/product-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 8 agents.

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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 945 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00011 $0.00945
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00378
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00094

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a392b0560f68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

prd-status scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- If no write permissions: Report error and suggest using sudo ## Example
plugins/product-design/skills/prd-status/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

prd-status

Category: Product & Strategy

Usage

prd-status <prd-file> <new-status> [--comment "reason for change"]

Arguments

  • <prd-file>: Required - Path to the PRD file to update
  • <new-status>: Required - New status (draft, review, approved, active, complete, archived)
  • --comment: Optional - Comment explaining the status change

Execution Instructions for Claude Code

When this command is run, Claude Code should:

  1. Validate that the PRD file exists
  2. Validate that the new status is one of the allowed values
  3. Read the current PRD metadata
  4. Check if the status transition is valid according to the lifecycle rules
  5. Update the PRD metadata:
    • Change status field to new status
    • Update last_updated to current date
    • If moving to APPROVED: prompt for approved_by name and set approved_date
    • If moving to ARCHIVED: add archive metadata section
  6. Add status change to a history section in the PRD (create if doesn't exist)
  7. Determine the new directory location based on status
  8. Move the file to the appropriate directory (using git mv if in git repo)
  9. Update any relative path references in the moved PRD
  10. Report the changes made

Status Transition Rules

Valid transitions:

  • DRAFT → REVIEW, ARCHIVED
  • REVIEW → APPROVED, DRAFT, ARCHIVED
  • APPROVED → ACTIVE, REVIEW, ARCHIVED
  • ACTIVE → COMPLETE, ARCHIVED
  • COMPLETE → ARCHIVED
  • ARCHIVED → (no transitions allowed)

Metadata Updates

Moving to APPROVED

status: APPROVED
approved_by: [Prompt for name]
approved_date: 2025-01-06

Moving to ARCHIVED

status: ARCHIVED
archive_date: 2025-01-06
archive_reason: [Use --comment or prompt]
final_task_completion: [Calculate if task file exists]

Status History Section

Add or update in PRD:

## Status History

- 2025-01-06: DRAFT → REVIEW (Ready for stakeholder feedback)
- 2025-01-07: REVIEW → APPROVED (Approved by Jane Smith)
- 2025-01-08: APPROVED → ACTIVE (Development started)

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 1mo ago First seen · 133 lines · 11 tokens per session scan B a392b0560f68

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prd-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpoutrin/product-forge (16 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 945 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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