product-agent

product-agent is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,145 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning assistant for discovering and evaluating iOS and macOS app ideas, including their users, problems, markets, and competition.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate an app concept, define an MVP—the smallest useful version—and assess its market opportunity.
Why use it?
It helps you test whether an idea solves a meaningful problem before committing time to build it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 147 skills shipped together , and of apple-skills

Good fit Use it to validate an app concept, define an MVP—the smallest useful version—and assess its market opportunity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/product-agent
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 rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill product-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,145 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 218
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 222
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 223
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00081 $0.02145
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01073
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00429
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00215

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7ff710225d9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-agent 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 7d 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/product/product-agent/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Agent Skill

Product Agent validates iOS/macOS app ideas by analyzing problems, markets, and competition. It provides honest, structured assessments to help you decide whether to build.

When This Skill Activates

Use this Skill when the user wants to:

  • Discover or validate product ideas
  • Analyze market opportunities
  • Check if an app idea is worth building
  • Understand competitive landscape
  • Assess problem severity
  • Get honest feedback on app concepts

How It Works

This skill performs structured product analysis using reasoning and web research. No external tools required — Claude analyzes the idea directly and researches the market via WebSearch/WebFetch.

Quick Start

When the user provides an app idea, perform the Problem Discovery Analysis below and present the results.

If the user hasn't provided enough detail, ask:

  1. What's the app idea? (required)
  2. What platform? (iOS, macOS, or both — default: iOS/macOS)
  3. Who's the target user? (optional but improves analysis)

Problem Discovery Analysis

For each idea, analyze and produce these fields:

1. Problem Statement

One-sentence description of the core problem the app solves.

2. Target Users

Who experiences this problem most acutely? Be specific about demographics, roles, and context.

3. Pain Points

List 4-8 specific, concrete pain points users experience today. Each should be observable and verifiable.

4. Severity Score (1-10)

Rate how painful this problem is:

  • 1-3: Weak problem, low urgency — users barely notice
  • 4-6: Moderate problem, decent opportunity — users work around it
  • 7-8: Strong problem, good opportunity — users actively seek solutions
  • 9-10: Critical problem, excellent opportunity — users are desperate (rare)

5. Frequency

How often do target users encounter this problem? Daily problems are stronger than weekly ones.

6. Current Solutions

Research existing alternatives using WebSearch. For each competitor:

  • Name and brief description
  • Key strengths
  • Main limitations
  • Pricing model

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 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. 7d ago First seen · 241 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 7ff710225d9b

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product-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (713 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,145 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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