prd-v05-technical-stack-selection

prd-v05-technical-stack-selection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering. It costs 151 tokens per session (4,465 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning guide for choosing the technologies a product needs and deciding what to build, buy, or connect to existing services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select tools for the front end, back end, database, hosting, and delivery process, including projects that already have an established technology base.
Why use it?
It reduces technology choices made in isolation by relating them to product features, screens, risks, and existing systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mattgierhart/prd-driven-context-engineering/prd-v05-technical-stack-selection
Any agent
npx skills add mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering --skill prd-v05-technical-stack-selection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,465 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00151 $0.04465
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.02233
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00893
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00447

Measured 5d ago against content hash e401cbeac06d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-v05-technical-stack-selection 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/prd-v05-technical-stack-selection/SKILL.md · 384 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 384 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Stack Selection

Make technology decisions for every capability your product needs — starting with what you already have, then evaluating what fits, then deciding what to build.

Position in workflow: v0.5 Risk Discovery Interview → v0.5 Technical Stack Selection → v0.6 Architecture Design

Consumes

This skill requires prior work from v0.3-v0.5:

  • FEA-* feature entries (from v0.3 Features Value Planning) — Every feature translates to technical capability requirements; derives which capability areas need technology decisions
  • SCR-* screen entries (from v0.4 Screen Flow Definition) — Screen count and component complexity informs frontend technology needs; DES- components reveal design system constraints
  • RISK-* risk entries (from v0.5 Risk Discovery Interview) — RISK- constraints directly affect technology choices (RISK-003: latency → choose edge hosting; RISK-004: compliance → choose HIPAA-ready provider)
  • Existing TECH-* entries (from prior products if brownfield) — If product family exists, inherited technology decisions constrain new choices
  • Product family information (from user discovery if brownfield) — Shared infrastructure, existing databases, established frameworks narrow the evaluation space

This skill assumes v0.5 Risk Discovery Interview is complete and FEA-/SCR-/RISK- entries provide the constraint foundation.

Produces

This skill creates/updates:

  • TECH-* entries (technology decisions, decision type + rationale) — Decisions for each capability area with categories (Reuse/Extend/New/Replace), options considered, choice made, and rationale tied to FEA-/RISK- constraints
  • Risk-to-Technology mapping table — Validation showing every RISK- entry has corresponding TECH- response or explicit acceptance
  • Technical feasibility artifact — Confidence assessment on whether technology choices support feature MVP-SCOPE and risk mitigations

All TECH- entries should include:

  • Decision Category: Reuse/Extend/New/Replace/Build/Buy/Integrate/Research
  • Features Served: FEA-XXX references (every TECH- must serve at least one feature)
  • Risk Constraints: RISK-XXX references (if any risks constrain this decision)
  • Rationale: Why this choice; trade-offs considered
  • Cost Assessment: Current stage cost AND 10x scale cost for Buy decisions (MVP stage: prioritize speed and quality, not optimization)

Read the full file on GitHub · 384 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 5d ago First seen · 384 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A e401cbeac06d

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prd-v05-technical-stack-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering (182 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 4,465 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.