pm-idea-to-plan

pm-idea-to-plan is a skill for Claude Code from Uxcel-Lab/product-skills. It costs 165 tokens per session (2,971 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided product-management workflow that turns a rough idea into a build-ready plan. It moves through the problem, research, users, riskiest assumption, priorities, specification, and measures of success in that order.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when taking an early idea through discovery and decision-making to a product specification and success metrics, followed by a product review.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of writing a detailed specification before checking whether the problem, market, or willingness to pay is real.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the uxcel plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when taking an early idea through discovery and decision-making to a product specification and success metrics, followed by a product review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uxcel-lab/product-skills/idea-to-plan
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 Uxcel-Lab/product-skills --skill idea-to-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Uxcel-Lab/product-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install uxcel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 165 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,971 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 $0.00165 $0.02971
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.01486
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00297

Measured 12d ago against content hash dc1f0efa4775, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-idea-to-plan 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 12d 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.

pm/workflows/idea-to-plan/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea → Plan (PM Creation Orchestrator) Skill

How this skill behaves (read first)

This is the front door for taking a raw idea to a build-ready plan, and the PM twin of ux-design-from-scratch. Where pm-product-review orchestrates the validation direction (generative → audit), this skill orchestrates the compositional direction (generative → generative): it sequences the PM scope ladder — problem → discovery → users → riskiest-assumption test → prioritization → spec → metrics — pulling in each skill as the work needs it, then hands the result to pm-product-review for validation.

It is the executable form of the compositional orchestration section (§9) of docs/orchestration-policy.md, applied to PM. Its whole job is to avoid the failure this skill was created to fix: a plan that is overdeveloped as a PRD and underdeveloped as a de-risked product bet — a polished spec resting on an unexamined market and an untested willingness-to-pay. The spec is the last rung, not the first, and it never runs before the evidence rungs beneath it.

The one rule that makes this skill earn its place: evidence before spec. Claude's default, asked to "take me from idea to plan," rushes to a plausible-looking PRD — requirements, stories, metrics — built on an unvalidated problem and zero adoption evidence. That document looks complete, which is exactly why it's dangerous: teams build from it. This orchestrator forces the problem, the discovery evidence, and the riskiest-assumption test to come first, and keeps the spec proportionate instead of letting it swallow the plan.

When NOT to use this skill:

  • One named artifact — "write me a PRD", "frame this problem", "build a prioritization matrix". Let that skill trigger directly. Explicit scope overrides orchestration.
  • The strategy / launch arc — vision & strategy, competitive analysis, roadmap, GTM, launch experiments. That is a different compositional arc (pm-vision-strategy, pm-competitive-analysis, pm-roadmap, pm-gtm-plan, pm-experimentation-ab, pm-analytics). This skill stops at a validated, build-ready plan; offer to continue into the strategy arc rather than producing it here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 192 lines · 165 tokens per session scan A dc1f0efa4775

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pm-idea-to-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository Uxcel-Lab/product-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 165 tokens to every session and 2,971 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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