lenny-podcast

lenny-podcast is a skill for Claude Code from mshadmanrahman/pm-pilot. It costs 76 tokens per session (991 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-management advisor that searches transcripts from Lenny’s Podcast, a show featuring product leaders, and uses established product-management frameworks to answer questions with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for questions about product strategy, growth, prioritization, user research, metrics, and similar product decisions.
Why use it?
It helps you find practical advice on product decisions without searching through hundreds of podcast episodes yourself. It needs a local copy of the podcast transcripts for transcript-based answers.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-core plugin — 14 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for questions about product strategy, growth, prioritization, user research, metrics, and similar product decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mshadmanrahman/pm-pilot/lenny-podcast
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 mshadmanrahman/pm-pilot --skill lenny-podcast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mshadmanrahman/pm-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 991 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 $0.00076 $0.00991
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00099

Measured 11d ago against content hash c48d2e71ced2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lenny-podcast 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 11d 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.

plugins/pm-core/skills/lenny-podcast/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lenny Podcast: PM Advisor

Searches Lenny's Podcast transcripts and PM frameworks to answer product management questions with practitioner citations.

When to Activate

  • User asks "what does Lenny say about X?"
  • User says "ask lenny", "PM advice", "product strategy advice"
  • User asks about prioritization, growth, metrics, user research, roadmapping, or product strategy

Prerequisites

This skill requires a local copy of the Lenny's Podcast transcript archive:

{transcripts_path}/
  episodes/{guest-name}/transcript.md    # YAML frontmatter + transcript
  index/{topic}.md                       # Topic-to-episode mapping

Default path: _context/lennys-podcast-transcripts/

If the transcript archive is not found, inform the user and suggest:

  1. Clone the transcript repo into their workspace
  2. Update the path in this skill's configuration
  3. Fall back to framework-only advice (no transcript citations)

Search Strategy

For broad topics (growth, retention, hiring):

Read file_path="{transcripts_path}/index/{topic}.md"

This returns a list of relevant episodes. Pick the top 3-5 most relevant.

For specific concepts (activation rate, JTBD switching costs):

Grep pattern="switching cost" path="{transcripts_path}/episodes/" output_mode="content" -C=5

For episode metadata (before loading full transcript):

Read file_path="{transcripts_path}/episodes/{guest}/transcript.md" limit=15

Handling large transcripts

Transcripts are 25,000+ tokens. Never load full transcripts. Always:

  1. Read frontmatter first (limit=15) to confirm relevance
  2. Use Grep for targeted extraction
  3. Read in chunks (offset/limit) only when deep context is needed

Framework Library

Quick reference for commonly needed frameworks:

Framework Best For Key Idea
JTBD (Jobs-to-be-Done) Understanding user motivation People hire products to make progress
RICE Feature prioritization at scale Reach x Impact x Confidence / Effort
Opportunity Solution Trees Continuous discovery Outcomes to opportunities to solutions
North Star Metric Team alignment One metric capturing value delivery
ICE Scoring Quick prioritization Impact x Confidence x Ease
Kano Model Feature categorization Must-have vs performance vs delight
Working Backwards New product definition Start with press release, work back
Shape Up 6-week delivery Appetite-based scoping, bets not backlogs
AARRR (Pirate Metrics) Growth funnel analysis Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue, Referral

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 11d ago First seen · 106 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A c48d2e71ced2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lenny-podcast is a skill published in the GitHub repository mshadmanrahman/pm-pilot (20 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 991 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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