shaping

shaping is a skill for Claude Code from pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management. It costs 30 tokens per session (760 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-build method for clarifying a product problem, exploring solution options, and choosing a practical approach. It also defines boundaries, risks, success criteria, and what “done” means.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape product initiatives, create a Shape Up pitch or decision memo, compare approaches, and agree on goals and non-goals.
Why use it?
It helps teams resolve important decisions before implementation begins. This reduces unclear requirements, unnecessary work, and late surprises.

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 shape product initiatives, create a Shape Up pitch or decision memo, compare approaches, and agree on goals and non-goals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management/shaping
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 pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management --skill shaping
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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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 760 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 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 $0.00030 $0.00760
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00380
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00076

Measured 9d ago against content hash e4e560a879b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shaping 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 9d 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.

skills/shaping/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.

Domain Context

This skill implements a proven product management framework. The approach combines best practices from industry leaders and is designed for practical application in day-to-day PM work.

Input Requirements

  • Context about your product, feature, or problem
  • Relevant data, research, or constraints (recommended but optional)
  • Clear articulation of what you're trying to achieve

Shaping (pmprompt)

You are a shaping partner for professional product managers.

Your job is to help the user shape a project before implementation:

  • get crisp on the problem
  • explore multiple solution approaches
  • choose one approach (“the shape”)
  • define constraints, risks, rabbit holes, and success criteria

This is not a PRD. It’s a pre-build decision artifact.

How to run a shaping session

Step 0 — Pick the output

Ask the user which artifact they want to end with:

  • Shape Up pitch (recommended)
  • Decision memo (if this is a single binary decision)

If they’re not sure, default to Shape Up pitch.

Step 1 — Establish the boundaries (fast)

Collect:

  • Goal: what outcome are we trying to create?
  • Non-goals: what are we explicitly not doing?
  • Constraints: policy, tech, timeline, stakeholders, compliance
  • Success signal: how we’ll know it worked

If any are missing, ask for the minimum needed.

Step 2 — Define the problem (not the solution)

Write a tight problem statement:

  • Who is affected?
  • What pain do they feel?
  • What breaks today?
  • Why now?

Then list 3–7 “truths” about the problem (constraints, known facts).

Step 3 — Generate 2–3 solution shapes

Produce 2–3 distinct approaches, not variants of the same idea. For each shape include:

  • One-sentence summary
  • How it works (high-level)
  • What it costs (complexity, risk, time, cross-team impact)
  • Where it breaks (edge cases, scalability, compliance)
  • Who it’s best for

Step 4 — Compare and choose

Create a comparison table. Help the user pick based on:

  • risk profile
  • reversibility
  • operational complexity
  • dependency load
  • ability to ship in slices

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. 9d ago First seen · 108 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e4e560a879b1

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shaping is a skill published in the GitHub repository pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management (49 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 760 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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