prd-standards

prd-standards is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shinpr/claude-code-discover. It costs 52 tokens per session (538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for writing and checking product requirements documents (PRDs), which describe what a product should do and how success will be measured.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or review PRDs, user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria, including accessibility and delivery-readiness checks.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork from PRD structure, user stories, acceptance checks, and readiness decisions. This makes requirements easier for product and engineering teams to understand and verify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the discover plugin — 15 skills, 5 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shinpr/claude-code-discover/prd-standards
Any agent
npx skills add shinpr/claude-code-discover --skill prd-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/claude-code-discover

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install discover, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 5 agents.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 538 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00052 $0.00538
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 4d ago against content hash 425cc9d5d84c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-standards 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 4d 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/prd-standards/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PRD Standards

Purpose

Canonical reference for PRD quality — shared by both authoring and review workflows. Ensures the author and reviewer apply the same standards.

Reference Selection

Task Read
Writing or reviewing a full PRD references/prd-template.md
Writing or reviewing acceptance criteria references/acceptance-criteria.md
Assessing story readiness or drafting user stories references/user-story-guide.md

Relationship to Core Frameworks

4 Risks framework, Confidence Meter (0-10), and OST hierarchy are foundational concepts. This skill operationalizes them in the PRD context — templates, thresholds, and format.

PRD Structure

A discovery-driven PRD follows a standard structure with additive extensions. See references/prd-template.md for the authoritative template.

Core sections (standard PRD):

  • Overview (one-line summary, background)
  • User Stories
  • Functional Requirements (with EARS-format ACs)
  • Non-Functional Requirements (including accessibility)
  • Success Criteria (tied to Product Outcomes)
  • Technical Considerations

Discovery extensions preserve the decisions carried by core sections while adding:

  • Hypothesis & validation references in Overview
  • 4 Risks confidence per user story
  • Unvalidated assumptions section in Technical Considerations

User Story Standards

Each user story follows the persona-grounded format with 4 Risks assessment. See references/user-story-guide.md for the full guide.

Key rules:

  • Reference a specific persona from docs/product/personas/, not generic "user"
  • Every story has a 4 Risks confidence table with evidence
  • "Validated enough" is judged by cost x risk x reversibility, not a fixed threshold
  • Remaining risks are documented explicitly, not hidden

Acceptance Criteria Standards

All functional requirements use EARS-format acceptance criteria. See references/acceptance-criteria.md for patterns and examples.

Key rules:

  • Use When (event-driven), While (state-driven), or If-Then (conditional) patterns
  • Each AC is testable with a clear pass/fail
  • User-facing requirements specify each applicable state; an excluded standard state gets a reason only when omission would leave behavior ambiguous
  • Accessibility ACs included for UI features

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 4d ago First seen · 61 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 425cc9d5d84c

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prd-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/claude-code-discover (10 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 538 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 2026-08-31.

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