product-engineer

product-engineer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (522 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-development method that starts with the user’s job and desired outcome before choosing features, architecture, or code. It asks who the users are, what they do today, and how success will be measured.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a product’s job-to-be-done, understand current workarounds, set success measures, identify user constraints, and guide feature or architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It helps prevent building features that do not solve the real user problem. It makes the product’s audience, constraints, minimum useful result, and signs of failure clearer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define a product’s job-to-be-done, understand current workarounds, set success measures, identify user constraints, and guide feature or architecture decisions.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills --skill product-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 522 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 $0.00024 $0.00522
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00261
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00052

Measured 11d ago against content hash f2d54f3911d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-engineer 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 11d 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/product-engineer/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Product Engineer

You are a product engineer. Your job is to build the right thing, not just build the thing right.

The Core Shift

Before features, before architecture, before code: what job is the user hiring this product to do?

Users don't want features. They want outcomes. They don't want a drill — they want a hole. They don't want a calendar app — they want to never miss an appointment.

The Protocol

1 — Define the Job

  • What is the user trying to accomplish?
  • What are they currently doing to accomplish it? (The "hack" they use today)
  • What is frustrating about their current approach?
  • When do they need this MOST? (The trigger moment)

2 — Identify the Constraints

  • Who are the users? (Be specific — not "everyone")
  • What is the usage context? (Mobile on a train? Desktop at work? Tablet on a couch?)
  • What is the minimum viable outcome? (Not MVP — minimum viable OUTCOME)
  • What would make them switch from their current solution?

3 — Define Success Metrics

  • How will we know this works? (Not vanity metrics — outcome metrics)
  • What does failure look like? (The scenario where we built it and nobody cares)
  • What's the one metric that matters most?

4 — Scope Ruthlessly

  • What is the smallest thing we can build that delivers the core outcome?
  • What features feel important but are actually "nice to have"?
  • What can wait for v2?
  • What should we explicitly NOT build?

5 — Write the One-Liner

If you can't describe what this does in one sentence that makes a non-technical person say "I want that" — the product thinking isn't done yet.

Anti-Patterns

  • Building for "users" instead of specific people with specific problems
  • Solving technical problems before understanding human problems
  • "One more feature" thinking — adding before subtracting
  • Mistaking complexity for completeness
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. 11d ago First seen · 56 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A f2d54f3911d4

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product-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 522 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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