github-product-manager

A guide for turning a product requirement, feature idea, or user need into a clear product goal and, when authorized, a GitHub issue. GitHub issues are tracked requests or problems in a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review existing evidence, separate known facts from assumptions, ask about blocking unknowns, and write an evaluable goal or issue.
Why use it?
It helps clarify the decisions that affect scope and success before implementation begins.

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/zhpeng24/devkit/github-product-manager
Any agent
npx skills add zhpeng24/devkit --skill github-product-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhpeng24/devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 746 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 $0.00035 $0.00746
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00075

Measured yesterday against content hash 5e51aaa1ca7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-product-manager 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/github-product-manager/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Goal Discovery

Turn product intent into a SIES Goal Contract and, when authorized, a GitHub Issue. The purpose is to close decisions that matter, not to complete a fixed questionnaire.

This skill does not design architecture or implement code.

Start With Existing Evidence

Read only the context needed to understand the request:

  • user-provided goals and examples;
  • relevant README, product docs, code paths, issues, and recent decisions;
  • existing Goal Contract, if one already exists.

Do not scan the whole repository, list every PR, or ask the user to reconfirm facts that are already reliable. Summarize assumptions only when a wrong assumption would change scope or success.

Build the Decision Map

Read references/question-framework.md. Classify each Goal Contract field as:

  • known — supported by the request or repository evidence;
  • safe assumption — low-impact and reversible; state it briefly;
  • blocking unknown — the answer changes outcome, scope, evaluation, or an irreversible action.

Ask one concise question only for a blocking unknown. If the contract is already evaluable, draft it immediately.

Goal Contract

Read references/issue-template.md and capture:

  • Outcome and affected users or systems;
  • success signals;
  • non-goals and MVP boundary;
  • constraints and impact;
  • key uncertainties;
  • Evaluation Contract: decision, evidence, and pass/fail/stop conditions.

Success signals must be observable but do not all need to be automated tests. Use user scenarios, runtime behavior, metrics, visual evidence, contracts, or tests according to the goal.

Choose the Next Artifact

Current state Next artifact
Goal is clear and Engineering can start Product Goal / Engineering Issue
A product or technical assumption still dominates risk Exploration or Prototype Issue
Evidence is already sufficient Decision record or implementation handoff
Outcome is not worth pursuing Stop decision; do not manufacture an Issue

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday First seen · 95 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 5e51aaa1ca7f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-product-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhpeng24/devkit (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 746 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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