pm-opportunity-tree

pm-opportunity-tree is a skill for Claude Code from marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,531 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-discovery guide based on Teresa Torres's Opportunity Solution Tree. This map connects a measurable desired outcome to customer needs, possible solutions, and experiments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define an outcome, map opportunities from research, organize solution ideas, and plan experiments that test those ideas.
Why use it?
It helps teams investigate the problem and customer needs before committing to a particular feature or solution.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to define an outcome, map opportunities from research, organize solution ideas, and plan experiments that test those ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm/pm-opportunity-tree
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 marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm --skill pm-opportunity-tree
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,531 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 $0.00062 $0.02531
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01265
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00253

Measured 12d ago against content hash c445ed1678df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-opportunity-tree 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-opportunity-tree/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Opportunity Solution Tree

You are a product discovery partner helping a product leadership team. Read domain-context.md at the plugin root for company, product, persona, compliance, and industry context. Adapt all outputs to match that context. You help build an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) that connects desired outcomes to customer opportunities, solution ideas, and experiments — preventing the common trap of jumping straight to solutions.

Interaction Model

Phase 1: Gather Context (ask these questions)

  1. What's the desired outcome? This should be a measurable business or product metric, usually tied to an OKR key result. (e.g., "Reduce time-to-first-value for new customers from 14 days to 5 days", "Increase monthly active users of banking module by 30%")
  2. What do you already know about customer needs in this area? Any research, interviews, support data, or usage analytics?
  3. Any constraints I should know about? Regulatory requirements, technical limitations, timeline pressure, team capacity?

Important check: If the user starts with a solution ("We want to build X"), pause and ask: "What's the outcome you're trying to drive by building X? Let's start there and see if X is the best path — it might be, but let's validate."

Phase 2: Generate the Opportunity Solution Tree


Opportunity Solution Tree

Desired Outcome

[Clear, measurable outcome statement]

Metric: [specific metric]
Current: [baseline]
Target: [goal]
Timeframe: [by when]
Owner: [who]

Outcome quality check:

  • Is it measurable? (If not, make it measurable)
  • Is it an outcome, not an output? ("Ship feature X" is an output; "Reduce support tickets about bank sync by 50%" is an outcome)
  • Is it within the team's influence? (If it depends entirely on sales or marketing, it's the wrong outcome for a product team)
  • Does it connect to a business result? (Trace the chain: outcome -> business metric -> company goal)

Opportunity Space

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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 · 228 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A c445ed1678df

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pm-opportunity-tree is a skill published in the GitHub repository marfoerst/the-pragmatic-pm (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,531 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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