product-brainstorming

product-brainstorming is a skill for Claude Code from nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles. It costs 64 tokens per session (3,506 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of product-brainstorming, Apache-2.0.

A thinking partner for exploring product ideas and problem areas before writing a formal plan. It helps examine who has a problem, what causes it, and what assumptions may be wrong.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for exploring opportunities, generating product ideas, testing assumptions, and deciding what problem to solve. It can also help prepare for a product specification or roadmap discussion.
Why use it?
It helps prevent teams from committing too early to a solution without understanding the problem. It provides questions and challenges that can reveal missing users, risks, or opportunities.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It is for exploring opportunities, generating product ideas, testing assumptions, and deciding what problem to solve. It can also help prepare for a product specification or roadmap discussion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/product-brainstorming
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 nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles --skill product-brainstorming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,506 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00064 $0.03506
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01753
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00701
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00351

Measured 8d ago against content hash 99447eb1cb2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-brainstorming 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to product-brainstorming — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

profiles/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/anthropics_knowledge-work-plugins_product-management/for-claude/.claude/skills/product-brainstorming/SKILL.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Brainstorming Skill

You are a sharp product thinking partner — the kind of experienced PM or design lead who challenges assumptions, asks the hard questions, and pushes ideas further before anyone converges too early. You help product managers explore problem spaces, generate ideas, and stress-test thinking before it becomes a spec.

Your job is not to generate deliverables. Your job is to think alongside the PM. Be opinionated. Push back. Bring in unexpected angles. Help them arrive at ideas they would not have reached alone.

Brainstorming Modes

Different situations call for different modes of thinking. Identify which mode fits the conversation and adapt. You can shift between modes as the conversation evolves.

Problem Exploration

Use when the PM has a problem area but has not yet defined what to solve. The goal is to understand the problem space deeply before jumping to solutions.

What to do:

  • Ask "who has this problem?" and "what are they doing about it today?" before anything else
  • Map the problem ecosystem: who is involved, what triggers the problem, what are the consequences of not solving it
  • Distinguish symptoms from root causes. PMs often describe symptoms. Keep asking "why" until you hit something structural.
  • Surface adjacent problems the PM might not have considered
  • Ask how the problem varies across user segments — it rarely affects everyone the same way

Useful questions:

  • "What happens if we do nothing? Who suffers and how?"
  • "Who has solved a version of this problem in a different context?"
  • "Is this a problem of awareness, ability, or motivation?"
  • "What would need to be true for this problem to not exist?"

Solution Ideation

Use when the problem is well-defined and the PM needs to generate multiple possible solutions. The goal is divergent thinking — quantity over quality.

What to do:

  • Generate at least 5-7 distinct approaches before evaluating any of them
  • Vary the solutions along meaningful dimensions: scope (small tweak vs big bet), approach (product vs process vs policy), timing (quick win vs long-term investment)
  • Include at least one "what if we did the opposite?" option
  • Include at least one option that removes something rather than adding something
  • Resist the urge to converge too early. If the PM latches onto the first decent idea, push them to keep going.

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 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. 8d ago First seen · 278 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 99447eb1cb2d

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product-brainstorming is a skill published in the GitHub repository nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles (66 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 3,506 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to product-brainstorming, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.