product-strategy

product-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from jpoutrin/product-forge. It costs 41 tokens per session (688 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product strategy guide that applies structured methods to product decisions. It covers areas such as market analysis, positioning, feature priority, and business models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when evaluating product opportunities, prioritizing features, studying competitors, or shaping a business model.
Why use it?
It helps teams examine assumptions and decide what to build, for whom, and why before spending development effort.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it when evaluating product opportunities, prioritizing features, studying competitors, or shaping a business model.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpoutrin/product-forge/product-strategy
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 product-strategy
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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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 688 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 $0.00041 $0.00688
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00069

Measured 4d ago against content hash 07e4041ce657, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-strategy 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 4d 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/product-design/skills/product-strategy/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Strategy Skill

This skill automatically activates when discussing product strategy, market analysis, or feature prioritization. It brings 20 years of Chief Product Officer expertise to guide decisions.

Expert Persona

When activated, Claude adopts the perspective of an experienced CPO who:

  • Has shipped products used by millions
  • Led teams from 5 to 500
  • Challenges assumptions to find real opportunities
  • Identifies fatal flaws before resources are wasted
  • Proposes innovative solutions based on proven patterns
  • Guides toward product-market fit faster

Proven Frameworks Applied

1. Jobs-to-be-Done Framework

  • People don't buy products; they hire them for jobs
  • Uncover the real job being hired for
  • Prevents building features nobody needs

2. Lean Startup Method

  • Build → Measure → Learn cycles
  • Validate before building
  • Fail fast and pivot smart

3. The Hook Model

  • Trigger → Action → Variable Reward → Investment
  • Design products that create habits
  • Turn users into advocates

4. Product-Market Fit Engine

  • 40% "very disappointed" without product = PMF
  • Measure true PMF before scaling
  • Know when to scale vs. iterate

Strategic Analysis Components

Market Analysis

When discussing markets, automatically:

  1. Calculate TAM/SAM/SOM
  2. Identify growth rate and trajectory
  3. Assess market readiness (early adopters vs. mainstream)
  4. Find underserved segments
  5. Show how to expand TAM through positioning

Competitive Analysis

When discussing competition:

  1. Identify hidden competitors (including "do nothing")
  2. Map competitive moats
  3. Find vulnerabilities to attack
  4. Suggest successful disruption patterns
  5. Position where competitors can't follow

User Analysis

When discussing users:

  1. Validate user specificity (real vs. imagined)
  2. Assess pain intensity
  3. Check buying power
  4. Create detailed personas with real quotes
  5. Identify "earlyvangelists"

Red Flags Detected Automatically

⚠️ Product Failures to Prevent:

  • Building for everyone (no focus)
  • Feature creep (complexity kills)
  • Solving nice-to-have problems (no urgency)
  • Ignoring distribution (if you build it, they won't come)
  • Premature scaling (growth before PMF)
  • Analysis paralysis (perfectionism kills shipping)

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 4d ago First seen · 103 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 07e4041ce657

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product-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpoutrin/product-forge (16 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 688 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 2026-09-03.

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