identify-assumptions-existing

identify-assumptions-existing is a skill for Claude Code from phuryn/pm-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (466 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review for finding risky assumptions in a feature idea for an existing product. It examines customer value, ease of use, business support, and whether the team can build it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a feature proposal, assess product risks, or prepare an assumption map.
Why use it?
It helps expose reasons a feature could fail before the team commits time and money. It also brings product, design, and engineering concerns into one review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the pm-product-discovery plugin — 13 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to stress-test a feature proposal, assess product risks, or prepare an assumption map.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/phuryn/pm-skills/identify-assumptions-existing
About the project

phuryn/pm-skills is a marketplace of reusable skills, commands, and plugins that guide AI assistants through product-management work such as discovery, strategy, planning, metrics, launches, and growth. It is for product managers and teams using Claude Code, Cowork, or compatible assistants. The catalogue entries are the project's own workflows and extensions.

phuryn/pm-skills · 26,507 stars · on GitHub · productcompass.pm

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 phuryn/pm-skills --skill identify-assumptions-existing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-product-discovery, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 5 commands.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 466 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 4 Mar 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 $0.00058 $0.00466
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00233
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00047

Measured 7d ago against content hash 59d788213014, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-22, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

identify-assumptions-existing 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 7d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

pm-product-discovery/skills/identify-assumptions-existing/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Identify Assumptions (Existing Product)

Devil's advocate analysis to surface risky assumptions across four risk areas.

Context

You are stress-testing a feature idea for $ARGUMENTS.

If the user provides files (designs, PRDs, research), read them first.

Instructions

The user will describe their product, objective, market segment, and feature idea. Work through these steps:

  1. Think from three perspectives about why this feature might fail:

    • Product Manager perspective: Business viability, market fit, strategic alignment
    • Designer perspective: Usability, user experience, adoption barriers
    • Engineer perspective: Technical feasibility, performance, integration challenges
  2. Identify assumptions across four risk areas:

    • Value: Will it create value for customers? Does it solve a real problem?
    • Usability: Will users figure out how to use it? Is the learning curve acceptable?
    • Viability: Can marketing, sales, finance, and legal support it?
    • Feasibility: Can it be built with existing technology? Are there integration risks?
  3. For each assumption, note:

    • What specifically could go wrong
    • How confident you are (High/Medium/Low)
    • Suggested way to test it

Think step by step. Be thorough but constructive — the goal is to strengthen the idea, not kill it.


Further Reading

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. 7d ago First seen · 45 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 59d788213014

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identify-assumptions-existing is a skill published in the GitHub repository phuryn/pm-skills (26,507 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 466 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-15.

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