pm-problem-statement

pm-problem-statement is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Uxcel-Lab/product-skills. It costs 152 tokens per session (2,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for writing or reviewing a product problem statement: a clear description of a real user's difficulty, separate from a proposed feature or business goal. It aims to make the problem specific, measurable, evidence-based, and testable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Turning requests, signals, or metrics into a precise problem statement, checking the evidence and root cause, separating user problems from solutions and goals, and critiquing an existing statement.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from treating a solution, symptom, vague complaint, or revenue target as the actual problem. That helps them investigate the right underlying cause before deciding what to build.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the uxcel plugin — 58 skills 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/uxcel-lab/product-skills/problem-statement
Any agent
npx skills add Uxcel-Lab/product-skills --skill problem-statement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Uxcel-Lab/product-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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README.md
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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,748 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 $0.00152 $0.02748
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01374
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00550
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00275

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3f37839ff98d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-problem-statement 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 4d 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/foundations/problem-statement/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Problem Statement Skill

How this skill behaves (read first)

This is a generative skill, and a problem statement is where most product work quietly goes wrong. Claude's default is to restate a request as a problem and move on — producing the four classic failures: a solution in disguise ("users need a better search"), a vagueness ("the UX is bad," "the process is inefficient"), a business outcome posing as a problem ("we need to increase revenue"), or a symptom mistaken for the cause (churn is up → "fix churn"). Each one locks the team into solving the wrong thing, well. A good problem statement is a gap a real user experiences, in context, grounded in evidence, measurable, and free of any named solution. So this skill gates:

  1. Establish what you actually have — a validated problem, or a prompt / signal / request / metric that only looks like one.
  2. Apply the always-true core — separate problem from solution/symptom/goal, find the true cause, make it specific and measurable, ground it in evidence, bridge user and business.
  3. Surface the context-dependent decisions (which definition tool, how much measurability now, reasoned vs. evidence-validated cause, scope) with trade-offs.

Then it hands off to pm-okr-metric-validity-audit (the measurable element) and pm-assumption-rigor-audit (the assumed root cause) for validation.

Scope: this skill owns the problem-statement artifact. It defers the broader problem-finding process to pm-discovery, hypothesis/experiment design to pm-assumption-testing, turning the statement into a full spec to pm-product-spec (audited by pm-spec-quality-audit), ranking which problem to tackle to pm-prioritization-rigor-audit / pm-prioritization, personas depth to pm-personas-jtbd, and user stories to pm-user-story.


Step 0 — Establish context before writing the statement

Ask if not known; state the assumption if proceeding without an answer:

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 4d ago First seen · 102 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 3f37839ff98d

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pm-problem-statement is a skill published in the GitHub repository Uxcel-Lab/product-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,748 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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