prd-standards

prd-standards is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shinpr/nautilus. It costs 52 tokens per session (634 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A standard for writing and reviewing product requirement documents, which describe what a product should do and how success will be checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It makes requirements, user stories, risks, acceptance checks, and delivery readiness more consistent and complete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shinpr/nautilus/prd-standards
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 shinpr/nautilus --skill prd-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/nautilus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 634 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 $0.00052 $0.00634
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00317
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00063

Measured 7d ago against content hash 27790e0eddf5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 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.

.agents/skills/prd-standards/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 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 (recipe-define) and review (doc-reviewer) 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 product-principles

4 Risks framework, Confidence Meter (0-10), and OST hierarchy are defined in product-principles. This skill operationalizes them in the PRD context — templates, thresholds, and format. For authoritative definitions, always defer to product-principles.

PRD Structure

A nautilus PRD uses the portions of the standard structure required by its delivery consumer. See references/prd-template.md for the available structure.

Core sections (include when they carry a delivery decision or required evidence):

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

Nautilus extensions (include at the smallest scope that affects delivery):

  • Hypothesis & validation references in Overview
  • 4 Risks evidence at the scope that changes delivery readiness
  • Design Context derived from design artifacts and prototypes
  • Unvalidated assumptions section in Technical Considerations

User Story Standards

User stories remain grounded in an evidenced persona or user distinction. Record 4 Risks evidence at the smallest scope that changes delivery readiness; shared evidence does not need to be repeated per story. See references/user-story-guide.md for the output and readiness rules.

Key rules:

  • Reference a specific persona from docs/product/personas/, not generic "user"
  • Each material risk has evidence available to the delivery decision
  • "Validated enough" is judged by cost x risk x reversibility, not a fixed threshold
  • Remaining risks are documented explicitly, not hidden

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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 · 62 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 27790e0eddf5

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prd-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/nautilus (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 634 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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