Shape product idea
Skill rvdsmaile/working-backwards/.agents/skills/shape-product-idea
Composable Working Backwards skills for turning product ideas into customer narratives and build-ready plans.
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Clarify a product idea's customer, problem, desired outcome, scope, and non-goals before drafting an announcement. Use after Working Backwards intake or when a proposal is too vague to write about credibly.
SKILL.md
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Shape Product Idea
Read ../../working-backwards/WORKFLOW.md. Work from the initiative when one exists.
- Establish one primary customer, the situation they are in, the costly problem, and the meaningful change.
- Define in-scope behavior, non-goals, constraints, and measurable or observable success signals.
- Record assumptions, decisions, alternatives, and risks in
decision-log.md; never convert assumptions into facts. - Update the phase to
draftingwhen the core decision is clear. Hand off towrite-announcement.