prd-v01-user-value-articulation

prd-v01-user-value-articulation is a skill for Claude Code from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,557 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning method that turns confirmed user problems into clear statements of the value a product should provide. PRD v0.1 is an early version of a product requirements document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after defining the problem to write value hypotheses, record supporting evidence and confidence, and signal which value areas should shape the minimum viable product.
Why use it?
It connects user evidence to product benefits instead of treating every requested feature as equally important. It also helps identify which benefits should guide the first version.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after defining the problem to write value hypotheses, record supporting evidence and confidence, and signal which value areas should shape the minimum viable product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mattgierhart/prd-driven-context-engineering/prd-v01-user-value-articulation
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering --skill prd-v01-user-value-articulation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,557 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00103 $0.01557
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00779
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00156

Measured 10d ago against content hash f85f6c94dd37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-v01-user-value-articulation 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.

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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.

.claude/skills/prd-v01-user-value-articulation/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Value Articulation Skill

Transform validated pain points into evidence-anchored value statements.

Workflow Position

Problem Framing → User Value Articulation → v0.2 Market Definition
     (pain)              (value)                  (who cares most)

Consumes

This skill requires prior work from v0.1:

  • **CFD-* entries (pain points, from Problem Framing) — Evidence for what problems users face
  • PRD.md Why section (problem statement table) — Context for pain-to-value transformation

This skill assumes v0.1 Problem Framing is complete.

Produces

This skill creates/updates:

  • CFD-* entries (tagged as value hypotheses) — Transformation of pain points into value statements, with confidence scoring
  • MVP scope signal — Identifies which value dimensions will drive MVP feature scope (handed to v0.3)

All CFD value hypothesis entries should include:

  • confidence: 2-3/5 (based on evidence tier from users or market)
  • Evidence tier (1-5 per value hierarchy)
  • Forward target: "Would move to 4/5 if we validate with beta cohort"

Example value hypothesis entry:

CFD-015: Value Hypothesis — Eliminate manual reconciliation workflow

Source Pain: CFD-001 (sales teams waste 5+ hours/week)
Evidence Tier: 2-3 (workaround + quantified cost)
Confidence: 3/5 (source: 3-customer-interviews-jan-2026)
Value Statement: "Reclaim 5 hours/week for strategic pipeline management"
Transformation: [5 hours wasted] → [5 hours available for growth]
Framing Type: Negative Removal (acute quantified loss)
Quantification: 5 hours/week = ~250 hours/year = $12,500 (at $50/hr)
Next Target: "Would move to 4/5 if we observe beta cohort using this feature"

Workflow Overview

  1. Receive pain points → Read CFD-IDs from Problem Framing
  2. Identify value unit → Time / Money / Risk / Capability
  3. Transform pain → value → Apply transformation pattern
  4. Anchor to evidence → What proof users want this outcome?
  5. Create CFD entry → Tag as value hypothesis with tier

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 First seen · 172 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A f85f6c94dd37

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prd-v01-user-value-articulation is a skill published in the GitHub repository mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering (182 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,557 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.