identify-assumptions-new

identify-assumptions-new is a skill for Claude Code from phuryn/pm-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (730 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review for finding risky assumptions in a new product idea. It covers customer value, usability, business viability, technical feasibility, ethics, market entry, strategy, and team risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate a startup concept, map its assumptions, or assess risks before choosing what to build.
Why use it?
It helps reveal what must be true for a new product to succeed before substantial work begins. Looking at several viewpoints can uncover risks that one role might miss.

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 evaluate a startup concept, map its assumptions, or assess risks before choosing what to build.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/phuryn/pm-skills/identify-assumptions-new
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-new
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 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 730 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 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 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 $0.00050 $0.00730
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00073

Measured 7d ago against content hash 962b1e0c01e4, 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-new 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-new/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identify Assumptions (New Product)

Comprehensive risk identification across 8 categories — extending the 4 core product risks (Teresa Torres, Continuous Discovery Habits) with Ethics, Go-to-Market, Strategy & Objectives, and Team risks that are critical for new products.

Context

You are evaluating assumptions for a new product: $ARGUMENTS.

If the user provides files (business plans, research), read them first.

Domain Context

The 4 core product risks (Teresa Torres, Continuous Discovery Habits): Value, Usability, Viability, Feasibility.

For new products, extend to 8 risk categories. Good teams assume at least three-quarters of their ideas won't perform as they hope.

Instructions

The user will describe the product concept, target segment, and feature idea. Work through these steps:

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

    • Product Manager: Market demand, willingness to pay, competitive landscape
    • Designer: First-time user experience, onboarding, engagement
    • Engineer: Build vs. buy decisions, scalability, technical debt
  2. Identify assumptions across 8 risk categories:

    • Value: Will it create value for customers? Will they keep using it?
    • Usability: Will people figure out how to use it? Can we onboard them fast enough? Will it increase cognitive load?
    • Viability: Can we sell/monetize/finance it? Is it worth the cost? Can we support customers and help them succeed? Can we scale? Will it be compliant?
    • Feasibility: Can we do it with the current technology? Is this integration possible? Can it be efficient? Can we scale it?
    • Ethics: Should we do it at all? Are there any ethical considerations? Will it pose a risk for our customers?
    • Go-to-Market (especially critical for new products): Can we market it? Do we have the required channels? Can we convince customers to try it? Is this the right messaging for this channel? Is this the right time? Is this the right way to launch it?
    • Strategy & Objectives: What are our assumptions? Can others copy our strategy? Have we considered political, economic, legal, technological, and environmental factors? Are those the best problems to solve?
    • Team: How well will the team work together? Do we have the right people? Do we have the right tools? Will the entire team stay with us long enough?

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 7d ago First seen · 53 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 962b1e0c01e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

identify-assumptions-new is a skill published in the GitHub repository phuryn/pm-skills (26,507 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 730 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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