opportunity-solution-tree

opportunity-solution-tree is a skill for Claude Code from phuryn/pm-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (900 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for mapping a product outcome to customer opportunities, possible solutions, and experiments. An Opportunity Solution Tree is a visual way to connect the result you want with the problems worth solving and tests that can validate ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure product discovery, map customer needs, generate several solution options, and plan experiments. It can also help decide what to build next using customer research and opportunity scoring.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid jumping straight to a feature before understanding the customer problem. The map keeps discovery work tied to a measurable outcome and shows which ideas still need evidence.

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 structure product discovery, map customer needs, generate several solution options, and plan experiments. It can also help decide what to build next using customer research and opportunity scoring.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/phuryn/pm-skills/opportunity-solution-tree
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 opportunity-solution-tree
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 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 900 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 $0.00060 $0.00900
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00450
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00090

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6b23e44a5ace, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-22, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

opportunity-solution-tree 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.

pm-product-discovery/skills/opportunity-solution-tree/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Opportunity Solution Tree (OST)

A visual framework for structuring continuous product discovery. Connects a desired outcome to customer opportunities, possible solutions, and experiments to validate them.

Domain Context

The Opportunity Solution Tree (Teresa Torres, Continuous Discovery Habits) is the backbone of modern product discovery. It prevents teams from jumping to solutions by forcing them to first map the opportunity space.

Structure (4 levels):

  1. Desired Outcome (top) — The measurable business or product outcome the team is pursuing. Should be a single, clear metric (e.g., "increase 7-day retention to 40%"). This comes from your OKRs or product strategy.

  2. Opportunities (second level) — Customer needs, pain points, or desires discovered through research. These are problems worth solving — not features. Frame them from the customer's perspective: "I struggle to..." or "I wish I could..." Prioritize using Opportunity Score: Importance × (1 − Satisfaction) (Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook). Normalize Importance and Satisfaction to 0–1.

  3. Solutions (third level) — Possible ways to address each opportunity. Generate multiple solutions per opportunity — don't commit to the first idea. The Product Trio (PM + Designer + Engineer) should ideate together. "Best ideas often come from engineers."

  4. Experiments (bottom) — Fast, cheap tests to validate whether a solution actually addresses the opportunity. Use assumption testing (Value, Usability, Viability, Feasibility risks). Prefer experiments with "skin-in-the-game" (Alberto Savoia) over opinion-based validation.

Key principles:

  • One outcome at a time. Don't try to solve everything. Focus the tree on a single desired outcome.
  • Opportunities, not features. "Never allow customers to design solutions. Prioritize opportunities (problems), not features."
  • Compare and contrast. Always generate at least 3 solutions per opportunity before choosing. Avoid the "first idea" trap.
  • Discovery is not linear. Loop back if experiments fail. Kill solutions that don't validate. Explore new branches.
  • Continuous, not periodic. Update the tree weekly as you learn from interviews, analytics, and experiments.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 · 65 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 6b23e44a5ace

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opportunity-solution-tree is a skill published in the GitHub repository phuryn/pm-skills (26,507 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 900 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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