opportunity-solution-trees

opportunity-solution-trees is a skill for Claude Code from pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,138 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-discovery framework that maps a desired result to customer needs, possible solutions, and small tests. Product discovery is the work of learning what to build before committing to it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure research, connect customer pain points to outcomes, create several solution options, and test assumptions cheaply.
Why use it?
It keeps teams from choosing a solution too early and helps them compare ideas against real customer problems.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pmprompt plugin — 28 skills, 9 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to structure research, connect customer pain points to outcomes, create several solution options, and test assumptions cheaply.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management/opportunity-solution-trees
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management --skill opportunity-solution-trees
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pmprompt, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 9 commands.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,138 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 8 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 $0.00068 $0.01138
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00569
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00114

Measured 10d ago against content hash c0373308e680, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

opportunity-solution-trees 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 10d 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:

skills/opportunity-solution-trees/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Opportunity Solution Trees

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 you're 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. Frame them from the customer's perspective: "I struggle to..." or "I wish I could..." Prioritize using Opportunity Score: Importance × (1 − Satisfaction) (Dan Olsen).

  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.

  4. Experiments (bottom) — Fast, cheap tests to validate whether a solution addresses the opportunity. Use assumption testing (Value, Usability, Viability, Feasibility).

Key principles:

  • One outcome at a time — don't try to solve everything
  • Opportunities, not features — never let customers design solutions
  • Compare and contrast — generate at least 3 solutions per opportunity
  • Discovery is not linear — loop back if experiments fail
  • Continuous, not periodic — update the tree weekly

Input Requirements

  • A desired outcome or business metric to improve
  • Customer research data (interviews, surveys, analytics, feedback)
  • Optionally: existing opportunities or solution ideas to organize

What It Is

Use the Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) to connect a business outcome to the customer opportunities that drive it, then compare solutions and tests. The tree forces you to separate needs from ideas and keeps discovery tied to delivery.

When to Use It

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 10d ago First seen · 108 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A c0373308e680

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opportunity-solution-trees is a skill published in the GitHub repository pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management (49 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,138 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 2026-08-30.

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