{
  "description": "Direction to requirements: PR/FAQs, strategy frameworks, OKRs, business cases, interviews, PRDs, journey maps, and success measurement.",
  "display_name": "Product manager",
  "keywords": ["prfaq", "prd", "strategy", "okr", "discovery"],
  "links": {
    "documentation": "https://sananthanarayan.github.io/skilldrop/packs/product-manager/"
  },
  "maintainers": [
    {
      "name": "sananthanarayan"
    }
  ],
  "first-value": {
    "audience-posture": "non-technical",
    "prerequisites": [],
    "starter-task": "Pressure-test a product idea before anyone builds it",
    "starter-prompt": "Write a PR/FAQ for a feature that lets customers pause their subscription for up to three months instead of cancelling.",
    "verification": "prfaq returns a launch press release, a customer FAQ and an internal FAQ that names the hard questions.",
    "recovery": "If prfaq does not activate, ask for it by name (\"use prfaq\") and check that its folder exists in your skills folder (`~/.claude/skills/` by default)."
  },
  "requires": ["core"],
  "journey": {
    "when": "You are deciding what to build and need a requirement a human has agreed to before design starts.",
    "you_bring": [
      "the feature idea or problem and who it is for",
      "the stakeholders you can talk to",
      "interview notes or evidence you already have"
    ],
    "time": "1–2 hours of working time, plus the interviews themselves",
    "steps": [
      {
        "skill": "requirements-interview",
        "you_do": "Describe the feature idea and list the stakeholders.",
        "you_get": "An interview kit per stakeholder with up to seven questions ranked by how much the answer changes the design, at least one disconfirming question each, and an assumptions ledger."
      },
      {
        "skill": "brief-intake",
        "you_do": "Paste the interview notes once you have run the interviews.",
        "you_get": "One brief with every field tagged explicit, implied, inferred or missing, quoting the source.",
        "decide": "Resolve the missing fields yourself; the PRD must not invent them."
      },
      {
        "skill": "prd-draft",
        "you_do": "Hand it the resolved brief.",
        "you_get": "A PRD with an evidence-backed problem statement, numbered MoSCoW requirements, non-goals, and a success line per goal."
      },
      {
        "skill": "doc-critique",
        "you_do": "Run it on the PRD, then take the result to whoever owns the decision.",
        "you_get": "A severity-tagged critique of the PRD with a verdict and a fix for each finding.",
        "decide": "Gate G0, a human call: PROCEED, PROCEED WITH CONDITIONS, REVISE (back to the brief), RECONSIDER (wrong problem) or BLOCKED."
      },
      {
        "skill": "success-metrics",
        "you_do": "Once the PRD is ratified, ask how you will know the feature worked.",
        "you_get": "One primary metric with baseline, target and timeframe, guardrail metrics, the events to instrument, and a decision rule if the target is missed."
      }
    ],
    "you_end_with": "Interview kits, a tagged brief, a ratified PRD, and a measurement plan agreed before anyone builds."
  }
}