Product Thinking

Product Thinking is a skill for Claude Code from ralfyishere/rules-with-receipts. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,585 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making guide for product work that starts with user problems and evidence of demand.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps decide whether to build something, prioritize work, define an MVP, interpret feedback, and evaluate product ideas.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from building requested or attractive features without confirming the problem they are meant to solve.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It helps decide whether to build something, prioritize work, define an MVP, interpret feedback, and evaluate product ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ralfyishere/rules-with-receipts/product-thinking
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 ralfyishere/rules-with-receipts --skill product-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ralfyishere/rules-with-receipts

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,585 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 $0.00092 $0.01585
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00792
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00159

Measured 9d ago against content hash a3480cce894f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Product Thinking 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.

.claude/skills/product-thinking/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Thinking

Purpose

Product decisions fail in a standard way: a feature gets built because it was requested, was buildable, and sounded good — and the underlying user problem was never stated, so nothing was actually solved and nobody can even tell. This skill enforces the decode: every feature is someone's proposed solution to an unstated problem, and the problem — plus real evidence anyone has it — is what decisions get made on.

When to use this skill

  • Build/don't-build and prioritization decisions; roadmap tradeoffs.
  • Interpreting feature requests and user feedback — especially specific, loud, or repeated asks.
  • Scoping an MVP or first version; defining what "success" for a feature means.
  • Evaluating product/business ideas (pairs with structured-reasoning and failure-mode-awareness).

When NOT to use this skill

  • Executing an already-made product decision — building it well is plan-gate + siblings; re-litigating it is scope-fence territory.
  • Pure technical decisions with no user-behavior question in them.
  • Contractual obligations ("client X paid for feature Y") — decode the problem anyway for design quality, but the build decision is made.

Operating procedure

1 — Restate the ask as a user problem. Template: [who], in [situation], is trying to [accomplish what], and is blocked/hurt by [what]. If you can't fill this from available evidence, that's the first finding — the request is a solution with no stated problem, and the next step is discovering whether one exists, not building.

2 — Decode the request, don't obey it. "Add an export-to-Excel button" might be: needs one number weekly (→ a scheduled email beats the button); needs data in another tool (→ integration/API); doesn't trust the dashboard (→ a trust problem no export fixes). The request constrains the solution space least; the problem constrains it usefully.

3 — Weigh the evidence of demand, not the volume of the ask:

  • Requested by how many, and are they representative or just loud? n=3 vocal users is a signal to investigate, not a mandate to build.
  • Distinguish "say they want" from "behavior shows they need" — workarounds in the wild (spreadsheets, scripts, support tickets) are stronger evidence than requests.
  • Who would stop using / stop paying without it? That's the demand that matters, and it's usually a smaller set than the requesters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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 · 75 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a3480cce894f

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Product Thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository ralfyishere/rules-with-receipts (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,585 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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