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.
npx skills add VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm --skill working-backwardsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pmWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/working-backwards)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/working-backwards"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/working-backwards/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/working-backwards"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/working-backwards.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00063 | $0.00999 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00400 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00200 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00100 |
Grade A, and why
working-backwards 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Codex host binding
- Treat references to Claude slash workflows as the equivalently named Codex skill.
- Before delegating to any specialist, read the
great-pm-runtimeskill and the selected packaged role file. - Treat "invoke", "assign", "delegate", "spawn", and source Agent-tool instructions as a required Codex
spawn_agentcall with that role and a bounded assignment. - For the spawn tool's
task_nameoragent_nameidentifier, replace canonical role-name hyphens with underscores (query-refiner-pm→query_refiner_pm). Keep canonical names unchanged in prompts, filenames, verdict logs, and user-facing output; this is an internal identifier mapping, not a role rename. - Store every returned agent identifier. Never call a wait tool until a spawn has returned an identifier, and wait only on identifiers returned by successful spawns.
- If
spawn_agentis unavailable or a spawn fails, report BLOCKED; do not impersonate the specialist or wait on an empty agent set. - Resolve bundled paths from the installed GreatPM plugin root.
- Ignore Claude-only model aliases, colors, turn limits, and tool allowlists.
- Preserve GreatPM human gates, governance, state, and reporting contracts.
Provenance. Adapted from
pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management@working-backwards(MIT License — github.com/pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management). Framework is Amazon's, documented in Working Backwards (Bryar & Carr). Vendored into great-pm 2026-05-29 with great-pm-convention frontmatter. MIT permits commercial use with attribution; this header is the attribution.
Working Backwards (PR-FAQ)
What it is
Amazon's product-development method. The core insight: start with the customer problem and work backward to the solution — not the other way around.
Most teams work forward: "We have this capability — what can we build?" Working Backwards inverts it: "What problem does the customer have? What's the ideal solution? Now how do we build it?"
The mechanism: write an internal press release and FAQ before building anything. If you can't write a compelling press release, you don't have a compelling product.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A cccc0376111c
working-backwards is a skill published in the GitHub repository VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 999 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-21.
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