shipkit-product-goals

shipkit-product-goals is a skill for Claude Code from stefan-stepzero/shipkit. It costs 39 tokens per session (5,164 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning a product plan into measurable user-success targets, such as completion rates, user satisfaction, and experience quality. It saves these criteria in a product goals file and can compare results with the targets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to derive success criteria for product features and user experiences, add them to project stage checks, or evaluate actual results against planned targets.
Why use it?
It replaces vague ideas about whether a product works with explicit outcomes that can be tracked and checked against the original product plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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/stefan-stepzero/shipkit/shipkit-product-goals
Any agent
npx skills add stefan-stepzero/shipkit --skill shipkit-product-goals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-stepzero/shipkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,164 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 $0.00039 $0.05164
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02582
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00516

Measured 5d ago against content hash 16025e68d504, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipkit-product-goals 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 5d 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.

install/skills/shipkit-product-goals/SKILL.md · 500 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 500 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

shipkit-product-goals — Product Success Criteria

Purpose: Derive measurable user-outcome criteria from the product blueprint. Each feature, UX pattern, and differentiator implies criteria for "how do we know this works?" — this skill makes those criteria explicit, measurable, and trackable.

What it does: Reads the product blueprint + discovery context + stage from strategic.json, proposes user-outcome criteria (P-), appends P- IDs to existing stage gates, then writes goals/product.json.

Protocol: This skill follows the canonical elicitation protocol defined in install/shared/references/elicitation-protocol.md (the mechanics — marker, state files, resume). The steps below are this skill's specific application of that protocol.

Calibration: Apply install/shared/references/ground-or-ask-calibration.md (the intelligence — propose vs ask). Ground first: This is a DERIVATION skill — the vast majority of P-* criterion fields are directly derivable from cited upstream artifacts (product-definition.json, product-discovery.json, goals/strategic.json). Propose every criterion you can ground, tagged with its source; flag low-leverage guesses as guessed. The only genuinely high-leverage ungrounded fields are the concrete numeric thresholds (e.g., "> 80% completion rate") when no signal from stage calibration, prior metrics, or product-definition implies a specific value. Ask those — and only those. Keep the question set tiny (often zero). Do not ask what a signal already answers; do not silently invent a high-leverage threshold.

Output: One JSON file:

  • goals/product.json — User-outcome criteria (PM owns)

Strategic goals (stage, constraints, business metrics: S-) are handled by /shipkit-stage, owned by the Visionary agent. Engineering goals (technical performance: E-) are handled by /shipkit-engineering-goals, owned by the Architect agent.


Modes

Mode Trigger What It Does
Define (default) "Set goals", "success criteria", "product goals" Derive P-* criteria from product blueprint, write product.json, append P-* to gates
Evaluate --evaluate, "check metrics" Read metrics/latest.json, compare product criteria to targets, output gap report

Read the full file on GitHub · 500 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. 5d ago First seen · 500 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 16025e68d504

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shipkit-product-goals is a skill published in the GitHub repository stefan-stepzero/shipkit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 5,164 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.