wb-refine

wb-refine is a skill for Claude Code from robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (4,280 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning document made of a customer-facing announcement and detailed answers to difficult questions. It is written before development to describe the product as though it already exists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to propose a product, prepare a decision document, seek leadership approval, and test a planned solution through repeated questioning.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear assumptions, customer value, risks, and objections before significant engineering work begins. This gives teams a structured way to decide whether an idea deserves investment.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the build-like-amazon plugin — 28 skills, 14 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to propose a product, prepare a decision document, seek leadership approval, and test a planned solution through repeated questioning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills/wb-refine
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 robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills --skill wb-refine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install build-like-amazon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 14 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,280 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 $0.00064 $0.04280
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.02140
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00856
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00428

Measured 10d ago against content hash e7dc18c2f40f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wb-refine 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.

skills/wb-refine/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WB-Refine: The PR/FAQ

Overview

The PR/FAQ is Amazon's most iconic product development mechanism. It is a document (typically 6-12 pages) consisting of a Press Release (1-1.5 pages) and a Frequently Asked Questions section (4-10 pages). The press release is written as if the product already exists and is being announced to customers. The FAQ section answers the hardest questions — both from customers (external FAQ) and from leadership/stakeholders (internal FAQ).

The PR/FAQ is NOT a marketing document. It is a thinking tool. Writing forces precision. The press release format forces customer-centricity. The FAQ format forces you to confront uncomfortable questions before you've invested months of engineering effort.

A PR/FAQ typically goes through 10-20 revisions before approval. This is intentional. Each revision sharpens the thinking, closes logical gaps, and strengthens the argument. A first draft is never good enough — if it is, the author isn't being honest about the hard questions.

When to Use

  • After completing Stage 3 (Invent) with a recommended solution
  • As the primary decision artifact for any significant product investment
  • When seeking leadership approval for resource allocation
  • To align cross-functional teams (engineering, design, marketing, operations) on a shared vision
  • When an existing initiative has lost clarity and needs to be re-grounded in customer value

Agent Persona

Load agents/doc-bar-raiser.md when reviewing the PR/FAQ. Use it to evaluate narrative clarity, customer specificity, FAQ rigor, and whether the document is strong enough to proceed to design.

Amazon Context

At Amazon, the PR/FAQ is read silently at the beginning of meetings. There are no presentations, no slides, no verbal pitches before reading. Everyone reads the document simultaneously (typically 20-30 minutes), then the discussion begins. This is deliberate:

  • Silent reading equalizes information. Everyone has the same context, regardless of whether they got a "pre-read" or verbal briefing.
  • Full sentences force complete thoughts. You can't hide behind bullet points in a narrative document.
  • The author does the hard thinking, not the reader. In slide culture, the audience fills in the gaps. In document culture, the author must be explicit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 296 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A e7dc18c2f40f

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wb-refine is a skill published in the GitHub repository robisson/build-like-amazon-agent-skills (15 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 4,280 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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