product-principles

product-principles is a skill for Claude Code from shinpr/claude-code-discover. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,486 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of product-management rules for judging evidence, organising goals and user problems, deciding what belongs in a first release, and checking interface states. An Opportunity Solution Tree is a hierarchy linking outcomes, user problems, and possible solutions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate user stories, set confidence thresholds, structure product work, scope an MVP, and decide whether validation is sufficient.
Why use it?
It keeps product decisions tied to evidence and preserves the reasoning from an assumption through validation, requirements, implementation, and testing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,486 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 5.1 $0.00049 $0.01486
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00743
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00149

Measured 6d ago against content hash 453febcd57ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-principles 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 6d 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-principles/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Management Principles

Core Philosophy

  1. Hypothesis Until Proven: Every assumption is a hypothesis until validated with evidence. Treat unvalidated ideas as hypotheses, not facts
  2. Value Traceability: From hypothesis to validation to user story to PRD to implementation to test — maintain traceability across the entire chain
  3. Feedback Accumulation: Preserve conclusions and evidence that can change a current or plausible future decision, including invalidated hypotheses
  4. Validated Enough: Use cost x risk x reversibility to determine the sufficient confidence threshold
  5. Artifacts Over Notes: Intermediate analysis (market research, competitive landscape, brainstorming) is conducted within the conversation and synthesized into the designated artifact. Each recipe defines its output locations

Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) Hierarchy

All product work follows this hierarchy:

Outcome
  ├── Product Outcome (team-controllable product goals)
  │     NSM connects Product Outcome ↔ Business Outcome
  └── Business Outcome (business results Product Outcome contributes to)

Product Outcome
  └── Opportunity (user problems, needs, desires)
        └── Solution (approaches to address the opportunity = feature candidates)
              └── Assumption (premises underlying the solution = hypotheses)
                    └── Experiment (methods to validate the hypothesis)

Level Definitions

Level Granularity Artifact Description
Business Outcome Largest docs/product/vision.md Business results the product contributes to
Product Outcome Large docs/product/vision.md Team-controllable product goals
Opportunity Large docs/discovery/opportunities/ User problems, needs, desires
Solution Medium PRD (docs/prd/) Feature candidates addressing an Opportunity
Assumption Small docs/discovery/hypotheses/ Premises underlying a Solution
User Story Smallest Within PRD Minimum unit of value with all 4 Risks validated

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago First seen · 114 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 453febcd57ef

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product-principles is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/claude-code-discover (10 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,486 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 2026-08-31.

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