product-design-shared

product-design-shared is a skill for Claude Code from theagenticguy/erpaval. It costs 135 tokens per session (498 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A shared reference library for product-design methods, including the Pyramid Principle, Working Backwards, Double Diamond, research design, and choosing a suitable method. It is used by other product-discovery skills rather than run by itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it indirectly through product-discovery, product-strategy, working-backwards, or customer-research skills when those methods need their common reference material.
Why use it?
It keeps several product-design tools based on one consistent set of definitions and guidance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the erpaval plugin — 11 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers 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/theagenticguy/erpaval/product-design-shared
Any agent
npx skills add theagenticguy/erpaval --skill product-design-shared
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theagenticguy/erpaval

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install erpaval, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 5 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 498 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 $0.00135 $0.00498
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00050

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1424c12c1508, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-design-shared 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.

kiro/skills/product-design-shared/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

product-design-shared — references-only pool

This skill exists so the four product-design skills above can share one canonical copy of each framework reference. It has no SKILL behavior: no role prompts, no orchestrator, no assets, no slash command.

What lives here

File What it covers
references/pyramid-principle.md Minto Pyramid composition discipline
references/working-backwards.md Amazon Working Backwards 5-stage flow + PR/FAQ
references/double-diamond.md Discover / Define / Develop / Deliver, divergent-convergent shape
references/research-design.md Hypothesis · null · MECE questions · methods · findings
references/methodology-selection.md Decision tree for which framework to reach for

Who consumes this skill

  • product-discovery — for PRD drafting, HMW framing, EARS specs, Jobs-to-be-Done
  • product-strategy — for Rumelt kernel, Wardley maps, Minto-structured argument
  • working-backwards — for the 5-stage flow (Listen, Define, Invent, Refine, Test)
  • customer-research — for hypothesis-driven research design

If you're trying to "use" product-design-shared, you probably want one of those four skills instead. Pick from references/methodology-selection.md.

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 41 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 1424c12c1508

Subscribe to this mod's changes

product-design-shared is a skill published in the GitHub repository theagenticguy/erpaval (28 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 498 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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