Acumen: Skill for Claude Code

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roadmap is a skill for Claude Code from VGrss/Acumen. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A plan for deciding which product improvements to make first and how to deliver them in useful increments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a roadmap, order a backlog, triage work, or divide a large initiative into shippable increments.
Why use it?
It connects priorities to users, competitors, the product's value chain, and internal gaps instead of treating a roadmap as a dated feature list. Each increment is intended to deliver a complete user outcome.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is VGrss/Acumen's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Acumen itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Acumen configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to VGrss/Acumen. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VGrss/Acumen/main/.agents/skills/roadmap/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VGrss/Acumen

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 1,093 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 $0.00039 $0.01093
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00437
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00109

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2b5b9bb87a31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

roadmap 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 2mo 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.

.agents/skills/roadmap/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Roadmap

Preparation

Before anything else, invoke /product-thinking to load strategic context, user segments, and product landscape. A roadmap disconnected from strategy is a feature list with dates.

Context Pull

Read .acumen/features.md for the current product landscape and known gaps. Read .acumen/competitors.md for competitive pressure and timing considerations. Read .acumen/value-chain.md for the end-to-end workflow per persona — sequence bets by which chain steps to strengthen or extend. Sequence bets against all three — value chain coverage, internal capability gaps, and external market pressure.

Mindset

A roadmap is a sequence of bets with sequencing logic. Not a Gantt chart. Not a promise. Not a list of features sorted by t-shirt size. Every increment ships a complete user outcome — if the next increment never ships, the previous one still delivered value. No technical-layer slicing. No "phase 1: build the API."

Core Reflex

  1. Organize by strategic themes — each theme ties to a user outcome and a business lever
  2. State the bet — for each theme, what are we betting will be true?
  3. Sequence by what unlocks what — dependencies and compounding value, not calendar quarters
  4. Break into vertical slices — each increment delivers end-to-end value a user can experience

Key Heuristics

Every increment must be valuable standalone

If the next increment never ships, does the current one still matter? If not, you sliced wrong. This is the single most important test. It forces honest prioritization and protects against half-built systems that deliver nothing.

Sequence by dependencies, not calendar

"Q2" is not a sequencing rationale. What unlocks what? Which bets generate learning that de-risks later bets? Which capabilities compound? Ship the thing that teaches you the most first.

"What we're NOT doing" is required

A roadmap without explicit exclusions is a wish list. State what you're choosing not to do and why. This forces the hard tradeoffs and prevents scope creep through ambiguity. If stakeholders can't see what was cut, they'll assume everything fits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 2mo ago First seen · 93 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 2b5b9bb87a31

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roadmap is a skill published in the GitHub repository VGrss/Acumen (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,093 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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