prd

prd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 122 tokens per session (4,592 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Product Requirements Document, or PRD, that records what to build, for whom, and why before engineering work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It creates product requirements with the problem, users, success metrics, and an appropriate level of detail for one-page, consumer-feature, or internal business work.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from jumping into implementation without agreeing on the user problem and measurable definition of success.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the planning plugin — 10 skills shipped together

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/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/prd
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill prd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install planning, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for prd

README.md
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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,592 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 $0.00122 $0.04592
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.02296
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00918
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00459

Measured yesterday against content hash 97259911e310, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/planning/skills/prd/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-computed context

Current branch: !git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown" Recent commits: !git log --oneline -5 2>/dev/null || echo "no commits" Working tree status (empty = clean): !{ git status --porcelain 2>/dev/null || echo "(git status unavailable)"; } | head -10

Variables

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Purpose

Most product-feature rework comes from skipping the what for whom and why layer and jumping straight to how. /planning:prd produces the lockable product intent contract: what we are building, for which users, against what measurable success, before any engineering plan, exploration, or research begins.

This is the product-intent stage. Upstream of exploration, upstream of /planning:plan, and may run before or alongside /planning:interview depending on task shape:

  • /planning:prd. Answers what should we build, for whom, and why. Outcome-focused. Required for new user-facing features, business-driven changes, cross-team initiatives
  • /planning:interview. Answers what is the engineering contract for this task. Constraint and acceptance-criteria focused. Required whenever intent is fuzzy or underspecified, regardless of source
  • Complementary, not redundant. A product feature usually wants both: /planning:prd (product intent) → /planning:interview (engineering contract) → exploration → research → /planning:design/planning:plan. Engineering-internal work skips /planning:prd entirely

The PRD is never an implementation plan. Boundaries: problem, users, success. Yes. Architecture, files, tests, code shapes. No. That is /planning:plan's job. If the user pulls toward implementation mid-PRD, anchor back to what for whom and let /planning:plan pick up after.

Cost framing: locking product intent up-front is the cheapest version of the conversation. Every later session that runs against a written PRD costs less than one that infers product goals from a half-formed thought.

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday First seen · 234 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 97259911e310

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prd is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 4,592 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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