develop-solution-brief

develop-solution-brief is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (805 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A short document that explains a proposed solution, its main decisions, and its trade-offs. It connects an understood problem with a later, more detailed specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to present a solution, align product and engineering teams, compare possible approaches at a high level, or record the intent behind a planned product direction.
Why use it?
It gives stakeholders enough information to agree on an approach before the team spends time writing detailed requirements or building it.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to present a solution, align product and engineering teams, compare possible approaches at a high level, or record the intent behind a planned product direction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/develop-solution-brief
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 product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill develop-solution-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 805 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 27 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 27 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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 $0.00046 $0.00805
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00081

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0cb3407abb6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

develop-solution-brief 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 8d 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/develop-solution-brief/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Solution Brief

A solution brief is a concise, one-page document that communicates the proposed solution to a problem. It serves as the bridge between problem understanding and detailed specification, providing enough context for stakeholders to align on the approach without getting lost in implementation details. The one-page constraint forces clarity and prioritization.

When to Use

  • Pitching a solution approach to stakeholders for buy-in
  • Aligning cross-functional teams on what you're building and why
  • Documenting solution intent before detailed PRD writing
  • Comparing multiple solution options at a high level
  • Communicating product direction to leadership

When NOT to Use

  • Stakeholders are aligned and engineering needs the full specification -> use deliver-prd; the brief pitches, the PRD specifies
  • The problem is not yet framed or agreed -> use define-problem-statement first
  • You are recording a decision already made -> use develop-adr (technical) or develop-design-rationale (design)
  • You need to compare strategic options across the whole business model -> use foundation-lean-canvas

Instructions

When asked to create a solution brief, follow these steps:

  1. Recap the Problem Summarize the problem in 2-3 sentences maximum. Don't re-explain the full problem statement - reference it if needed. The reader should immediately understand what pain point this solution addresses.

  2. Describe the Proposed Solution Explain what you're building in clear, non-technical language. Focus on the user experience and core value proposition. Avoid implementation details - this is about what, not how.

  3. List Key Features Identify 3-5 essential features that comprise the solution. These should be the minimum set needed to solve the problem. Resist the urge to include nice-to-haves - the one-page constraint demands focus.

  4. Define Success Metrics Connect the solution to measurable outcomes. How will you know if this works? Reference metrics from the problem statement and set targets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 76 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 0cb3407abb6f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

develop-solution-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/pm-skills (647 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 805 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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