pm-market-problems

pm-market-problems is a skill for Claude Code from julianoczkowski/product-manager. It costs 118 tokens per session (1,496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-management skill for finding and validating real problems in a market before building a feature. It uses interviews and research across customers, competitors’ customers, and other market groups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for market discovery, customer interviews, problem validation, and deciding whether a problem is urgent, widespread, and worth paying to solve.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid building features based only on internal opinions or the loudest customer requests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the product-manager plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for market discovery, customer interviews, problem validation, and deciding whether a problem is urgent, widespread, and worth paying to solve.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianoczkowski/product-manager/pm-market-problems
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add julianoczkowski/product-manager --skill pm-market-problems
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianoczkowski/product-manager

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,496 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 $0.00118 $0.01496
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00748
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00150

Measured 12d ago against content hash 348b65007947, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-market-problems 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 12d 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/pm-market-problems/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Problems — discovery & validation (Framework: Market → Market Problems)

Rule: The answers to most of your questions are not in the building. Discover, collect, analyze and communicate problems found in the market, then validate they are urgent, pervasive, and that the market is willing to pay to solve them. See ../pm-copilot/references/framework.md for the full map.

Who to listen to

The Noisy 20% vs. the Quiet 80%. The noisy 20% (your most excited/unhappy customers plus loud internal voices — an exec's advisory board, a big-client sales rep, support) give a limited, skewed view. The quiet 80% won't come to you; you must go find them (industry conferences — leave your booth; professional associations; LinkedIn; end-user training). Noisy customers don't represent the whole market.

The four market segments — each is "a person with a problem." Balance interviews across all four:

Segment Lens they speak through The question to ask
Customers (bought yours) your product "What other problems should we be solving for you that we aren't solving today?"
Competitors' Customers the competitor's product "What other problems should we solve that your current product isn't solving?"
Evaluators (shopping now) win/loss — don't disrupt the sale "Why did we win (or lose) your business?"
Potentials (not shopping) no lens — best for innovation "What problems are you facing, and why are you not looking for a solution?"

NIHITO — Nothing Interesting Happens In The Office. Recommend ~10 market visits per product manager per quarter. It feels like cold calling, but you aren't selling — state what's in it for them and expect many "no"s.

Discovery techniques

Observation — take thorough notes, look for patterns, minimize interruptions; if something catches your eye, ask. Answer: What do customers do / how / why? What's done manually that could be automated? What's multi-step that could be streamlined? How do they interact with your product? When do they use other systems, search for info, or need help?

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 12d ago First seen · 124 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 348b65007947

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pm-market-problems is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianoczkowski/product-manager (32 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 1,496 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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