define-problem-statement

define-problem-statement is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yuusakuri/agent-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (772 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of define-problem-statement, MIT.

A short document that explains the problem a project should solve, who it affects, why it matters, and how success will be judged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or refocus an initiative, explain priorities to leadership, assess proposed solutions, and provide project context.
Why use it?
It keeps a team focused on the right problem before discussing solutions. It also gives stakeholders and new team members a shared explanation of the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/yuusakuri/agent-skills/define-problem-statement
Any agent
npx skills add yuusakuri/agent-skills --skill define-problem-statement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuusakuri/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 772 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.00772
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00386
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 4d ago against content hash baa03c9cfb9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

define-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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to define-problem-statement — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/define-problem-statement/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Problem Statement

A problem statement is a concise document that frames the problem you're solving, articulates the impact on users and the business, and defines clear success criteria. It serves as the foundation for all subsequent product work by ensuring alignment on what problem to solve before jumping to how to solve it.

When to Use

  • Starting a new initiative or project to establish shared understanding
  • Realigning a drifted project back to its original intent
  • Communicating up to leadership or stakeholders about priorities
  • Evaluating whether a proposed solution actually addresses the core problem
  • Onboarding new team members to provide context

When NOT to Use

  • The problem is already agreed and engineering needs the spec -> use deliver-prd
  • You want to propose and compare solution approaches -> use develop-solution-brief
  • You are capturing customer motivation rather than a business problem -> use define-jtbd-canvas
  • The "problem" is really an unvalidated assumption -> frame it with define-hypothesis and test it before committing a team to it

Instructions

When asked to create a problem statement, follow these steps:

  1. Identify the User Segment Ask who is experiencing this problem. Get specific about the user persona, role, or segment. Avoid vague descriptions like "users" - instead target "mobile shoppers completing checkout" or "enterprise admins managing 50+ users."

  2. Understand the Pain Points Explore what friction, frustration, or unmet need the user experiences. Ask probing questions to understand the severity and frequency of the problem. Look for evidence from user research, support tickets, or behavioral data.

  3. Establish Business Context Connect the user problem to business impact. How does this problem affect revenue, retention, growth, or strategic goals? Why should the organization invest in solving this now versus later?

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 73 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A baa03c9cfb9c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

define-problem-statement is a skill published in the GitHub repository yuusakuri/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 772 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to define-problem-statement, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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