By 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.
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
Core Principles
When authoring a PRD, always prioritize:
- User problems over solutions
- Explicit assumptions
- Clear goals and non-goals
- Early acknowledgment of constraints
- Measurable success criteria
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.
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.
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.
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