prd-best-practices

prd-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code from juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins. It costs 42 tokens per session (856 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for product requirements documents, or PRDs: short descriptions of what a product should do and how its behavior can be checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria that describe what users can do and what must happen in response.
Why use it?
It prevents vague requirements and keeps product decisions focused on observable results instead of implementation details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Part of the prd-toolkit plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to write PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria that describe what users can do and what must happen in response.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/prd-best-practices
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins --skill prd-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prd-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 856 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00856
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00086

Measured 5d ago against content hash aaed076163f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-best-practices 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 5d 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.

prd-toolkit/skills/prd-best-practices/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PRD Best Practices

Core Principles

Focus on Observable Behavior

  • Describe what users see and experience
  • Let developers investigate implementation details
  • Avoid specifying classes, APIs, or technical architecture

Keep it concise

  • PRDs are for scoping, not full specs
  • 1-2 pages max for most features
  • If it's longer, break into smaller features

Make it testable

  • Every criterion should be verifiable by observing the product
  • Use concrete, measurable outcomes
  • Avoid vague terms like "fast", "easy", "better"

Writing Good Acceptance Criteria

Focus on what the user experiences, not how it's built.

Good (observable behavior):

  • User can sign in with their Google account
  • Session stays active for 24 hours
  • If login fails, error message shows with retry option
  • Admin can connect multiple workspaces simultaneously

Bad (implementation details):

  • Implement OAuth 2.0 with PKCE flow
  • Store JWT tokens in Redis with 24h TTL
  • Use retry logic with exponential backoff
  • Create WorkspaceConnection model with foreign key to User

Writing User Stories

Use the format: As a [role], I want [action] so that [benefit]

Good:

  • As an admin, I want to connect my Teams workspace so that my team receives notifications
  • As a user, I want to reply from Teams so that I can take action without opening another app

Bad:

  • As a developer, I want to use the Teams API to implement webhooks
  • As a system, I want to validate OAuth tokens to authenticate users

Section Guidelines

Overview

  • 2-3 sentences max
  • Answer: What problem? What solution?
  • Include the user/business benefit

Goals

  • 2-4 business or user objectives
  • Start with action verbs (Enable, Reduce, Improve, Expand)
  • Tie to measurable outcomes when possible

User Stories

  • Cover main user roles affected
  • Focus on user value, not system behavior
  • 2-5 stories typically enough

Acceptance Criteria

  • Observable from user perspective
  • Include happy path + key error cases
  • Checkboxes for tracking

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 5d ago First seen · 126 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A aaed076163f2

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prd-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 856 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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