pm-problem-validation

pm-problem-validation is a skill for Claude Code from ljucask/pureinn-product-development. It costs 54 tokens per session (4,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A summary that combines existing research about whether a problem is worth solving, including technical feasibility, the market, users, and their needs. It is created at the end of the research phase and does not add new research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a decision document before defining the product or moving into design.
Why use it?
It brings separate research documents into one place, checks whether they agree, and highlights contradictions or missing information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the pureinn-product-development plugin — 51 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare a decision document before defining the product or moving into design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ljucask/pureinn-product-development/pm-problem-validation
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 ljucask/pureinn-product-development --skill pm-problem-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ljucask/pureinn-product-development

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pureinn-product-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,268 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 $0.00054 $0.04268
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.02134
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00854
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00427

Measured 8d ago against content hash 06496f2d8693, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-problem-validation 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 8d 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-problem-validation/SKILL.md · 426 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 426 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM - Problem Validation Summary

Agent mode (--agent)

Supports --agent: runs autonomously in a subagent, drafts the artifact from existing inputs, and returns a short summary + coverage note.

  • No flag → interactive (default); if inputs are heavy, offer agent mode.
  • --agent → obey. First check inputs are complete. Anything missing: do NOT invent it - mark [ASSUMED - what/why] in the output and summary. Never hallucinate to fill a gap.
  • Review required: the artifact contains commitments - after drafting, require the user's review before finalizing; do not close decisions autonomously.

What this skill does

Synthesizes all Phase 2 Track outputs into one convergence document:

  • Track A: Tech Feasibility Report
  • Track B: Domain Analysis + Legal Requirements
  • Track C: Market Analysis (TAM/SAM/SOM, Competitor Analysis, SWOT, Market Timing)
  • Track D: Personas + JTBD Analysis

This is the Phase 2 exit artifact. Its output becomes the primary input to Phase 3a (Design Thinking - Define stage).

No new research. Claude reads all inputs and synthesizes patterns, validates consistency, and surfaces contradictions.


Dependencies

Strongly recommended before running (this skill synthesizes all of them):

  • pm-tech-feasibility - Track A
  • pm-domain-analysis - Track B
  • pm-market-analysis - Track C
  • pm-personas - Track D (Step 1)
  • jtbd-building - Track D (Step 2)

Produces artifacts used by:

  • pm-prd - Problem Validation Summary is a primary PRD input
  • design-thinking - feeds the Define stage (problem statement, POV)
  • pm-product-roadmap - problem and market context for roadmap framing

Step 0: Current state check

Check for existing artifacts:

  • Problem Validation Summary

Then check which Track inputs are available:

Track Artifact Status
A - Tech Tech Feasibility Report ✅ / ⚠️ / ❌
B - Domain Domain Analysis + Legal Requirements ✅ / ⚠️ / ❌
C - Market Market Analysis (all 4 artifacts) ✅ / ⚠️ / ❌
D - VOC Personas + JTBD Analysis ✅ / ⚠️ / ❌

Read the full file on GitHub · 426 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. 8d ago First seen · 426 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 06496f2d8693

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pm-problem-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ljucask/pureinn-product-development (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 4,268 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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