prd-from-idea

prd-from-idea is a skill for Claude Code from lukedj78/dev-flow. It costs 212 tokens per session (5,918 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool that turns an unfinished product idea or brief into a project summary and a product requirements document.

In plain words
What is it for?
It creates or revises PROJECT.md and PRD.md files from written ideas or imported document content, while asking the user for important missing details.
Why use it?
It gives engineers and other contributors a shared description of the product, its users, requirements, acceptance criteria, and unanswered questions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dev-flow plugin — 56 skills shipped together

Good fit It creates or revises PROJECT.md and PRD.md files from written ideas or imported document content, while asking the user for important missing details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lukedj78/dev-flow/prd-from-idea
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 lukedj78/dev-flow --skill prd-from-idea
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lukedj78/dev-flow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

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Per session 212 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,918 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 33
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 37
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 38
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 43
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00212 $0.05918
Opus 5.5 $0.00085 $0.02367
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00042 $0.01184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00592

Measured 10d ago against content hash 169088964d06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-from-idea 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/scope.py, scripts/test_scope.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-from-idea/SKILL.md · 336 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 336 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

prd-from-idea — idea → PROJECT.md + PRD.md

This skill turns an unstructured product idea into two artifacts that downstream skills depend on:

  1. PROJECT.md — the strategic brief. One page. Audience, problem, value proposition, success criteria. The piece other humans read.
  2. PRD.md — the product requirements doc. Several pages. User stories, acceptance criteria, non-goals, open questions. The piece engineers and downstream skills consume.

The skill is interactive — it asks the user a small number of high-leverage questions and turns the answers into the docs. It does not invent PRD content from nothing. When nobody can answer (an autonomous run), it derives the answers from the brief and records them as assumptions instead — see Step 3 §Autonomous runs.

When this skill applies

  • A user pastes a product idea ("I want to build a dashboard for X") and asks to start.
  • Orchestrator (dev-flow) routes here when phase is empty or idea_captured.
  • A PROJECT.md exists but PRD.md doesn't — the skill expands the brief into requirements.

If a PRD.md already exists, the skill enters revise mode: it reads the current PRD, asks what's wrong, and edits in place. It does not silently overwrite. A change that adds or removes a story is a scope change: it passes the scope check first (references/scope-check.md) and is recorded with scripts/scope.py record, one row in ## Scope changes. A PRD that predates ## Scope rules gets the section here (question 7b).

Contract

This skill follows the dev-flow contract — see references/contracts.md (vendored copy) for the canonical schema. Key facts:

  • Output goes into <project-root>/.workflow/.
  • Set phase = "idea_captured" after writing PROJECT.md; set phase = "prd_drafted" after writing PRD.md.
  • Append a history entry to meta.json for every run.

⚠️ Step 0 — the brief arrived as a file, not as a paste

The description above says "a user pastes a product idea", and often they don't: a real brief arrives as .docx, .pptx, .pdf, .xlsx — an RFP, a client deck, a spec someone wrote in Word. Do not ask the user to paste it, and do not summarise it from a partial read.

Read the full file on GitHub · 336 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago Changed · +50 lines 169088964d06
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines 23caffebf566
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines e304c2b86093
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 275 lines · 212 tokens per session scan A 9233c72c7b09

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prd-from-idea is a skill published in the GitHub repository lukedj78/dev-flow (6 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 212 tokens to every session and 5,918 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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