preflight

preflight is a skill for Claude Code from sohaibt/product-mode. It costs 34 tokens per session (466 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning checklist that records the problem, timing, smallest proposed change, main measurement, and whether the change can be reversed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a project or product change, review its scope, and save an agreed checklist under `.product-mode/checklist/`.
Why use it?
It exposes unsupported assumptions and missing information before work starts, so the team can resolve only questions that affect the work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to prepare a project or product change, review its scope, and save an agreed checklist under .product-mode/checklist/.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sohaibt/product-mode/preflight
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 sohaibt/product-mode --skill preflight
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sohaibt/product-mode

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for preflight

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for preflight

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 466 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 $0.00034 $0.00466
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00186
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00047

Measured today against content hash bd4c18d15f44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preflight 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 today.

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/preflight/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Pre-flight checklist

Fill in the five pre-flight boxes for the work the user describes. Use the text after the command as the work description. If there is no text, use the current conversation.

  1. Check .product-mode/checklist/ for a checklist on the same topic. If one exists, build on it and tell the user its path.
  2. Draft each box from the conversation, the code, and .product-mode/decisions/:
    • Problem: Whose pain are we solving, in one sentence?
    • Why now: What changed? (evidence, trigger, cost of waiting)
    • Scope: Smallest change that tests the hypothesis
    • Primary metric: The one number we expect to move
    • Reversibility: One-way or two-way door?
  3. Mark each drafted answer validated (the user said it or data shows it) or assumed (you inferred it). Never invent evidence, data, or a baseline.
  4. Show the draft. Ask about empty or assumed boxes in one short batch. Ask only questions whose answers change the work.
  5. When the user confirms, save the file as .product-mode/checklist/<UTC timestamp>-<work-slug>.md. Use the timestamp format 2026-01-31T09-05-00-000Z and a lowercase, hyphenated slug. Use this content:
# Product-Mode Pre-Flight Checklist

**Work:** <work description>
**Date:** <YYYY-MM-DD>

## Answers

- **Problem**: <answer>
- **Why now**: <answer>
- **Scope**: <answer>
- **Primary metric**: <answer>
- **Reversibility**: <answer>

---
*Generated by product-mode /preflight*
  1. Tell the user the saved path. If a box stays empty, write Unknown: <how we will find out> and say that the work proceeds without it.
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. today First seen · 41 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A bd4c18d15f44

Subscribe to this mod's changes

preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository sohaibt/product-mode (176 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 466 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-11-08.

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