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name: prd-authoring description: Generates a research-grade Product Requirements Document (PRD) defining problems, goals, scope, constraints, and success criteria. Use when creating or updating a PRD for a product or major initiative.

Product Requirements Document (PRD) Authoring

What is it?

This skill generates a high-quality Product Requirements Document (PRD) that establishes shared understanding across product, engineering, and leadership.

It emphasizes problem clarity, reasoning, and trade-offs, not feature lists or implementation details.

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When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

• Define a new product or major initiative
• Reframe or correct an existing PRD
• Establish alignment before roadmap or feature planning
• Translate ambiguous ideas into a clear product definition

Do not use this skill for:

• feature-level specifications
• roadmap sequencing
• UI or UX design
• implementation planning

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Core Principles

When authoring a PRD, always prioritize:

1. User problems over solutions
2. Explicit assumptions
3. Clear goals and non-goals
4. Early acknowledgment of constraints
5. Measurable success criteria

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Analytical Dimensions

Before writing the PRD, reason through:

• user context and motivation
• problem framing and urgency
• goals vs non-goals
• functional scope boundaries
• constraints and trade-offs
• risks and failure modes

These dimensions must be reflected in the final document.

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Output Structure

Unless otherwise specified, the PRD should follow the canonical structure defined in:

• assets/prd.template.md

Sections may be expanded or collapsed as appropriate, but the reasoning integrity must be preserved.

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Important Boundaries

This skill must not:

• ask clarification questions
• plan next workflow steps
• create tasks or tickets
• specify UI, UX, or technical architecture
• interact with users

All orchestration decisions belong to the calling agent.

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Output Expectations

The output should be:

• clean Markdown
• directly usable as a PRD artifact
• neutral and analytical in tone
• suitable for product, engineering, and leadership review