Build Mvp
BuildGreatProducts/builder-os
Use inside a product repository when the user wants the full MVP built from their BuilderOS spec documents.
Product Led AI Development — guides founders from idea to launched product.
Install Plaid
$ npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install BuildGreatProducts/plaid plaid --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "plaid" agent skill from https://github.com/BuildGreatProducts/plaid/tree/main into .claude/skills/plaid/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plaid", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install BuildGreatProducts/plaid plaid --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "plaid" agent skill from https://github.com/BuildGreatProducts/plaid/tree/main into .agents/skills/plaid/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plaid", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install BuildGreatProducts/plaid plaid --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "plaid" agent skill from https://github.com/BuildGreatProducts/plaid/tree/main into .cursor/skills/plaid/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plaid", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install BuildGreatProducts/plaid plaid --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "plaid" agent skill from https://github.com/BuildGreatProducts/plaid/tree/main into .gemini/skills/plaid/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plaid", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install BuildGreatProducts/plaid plaidInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "plaid" agent skill from https://github.com/BuildGreatProducts/plaid/tree/main into .github/skills/plaid/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plaid", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install BuildGreatProducts/plaid plaid --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "plaid" agent skill from https://github.com/BuildGreatProducts/plaid/tree/main into .opencode/skills/plaid/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "plaid", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
plaid- GitHub stars
- 218
- Token cost
- ~1.6k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 689 words
- Files
- 21 (incl. scripts, references, assets)
- Skills in repo
- 1
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Product Led AI Development — guides founders from idea to launched product.
- Someone says PLAID
- SKILL.md covers Overview, Shared Context and Routing
- Calls node
- Help me find an idea
What it does
Plaid is an agent skill from BuildGreatProducts/plaid. Product Led AI Development — guides founders from idea to launched product. Six capabilities: Idea (discover a product idea), Validate (pressure-test the idea against fatal flaws, problem reality, competition, and 2-week MVP feasibility), Plan (vision intake + document generation), Design (translate image references into a design.md spec), Launch (go-to-market strategy), and Build (roadmap execution). Use when someone says "PLAID", "plaid idea", "help me find an idea", "product idea", "idea from my business"…
Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 22 other files, including scripts, reference files and assets (for example `README.md`, `assets/vision-template.json` and `package.json`).
It sits in Product & Project Management, covering Design tokens, Go-to-market strategy and Product strategy. The repository describes itself as: Agent skill for the PLAID development methodology. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Someone says PLAID
- Help me find an idea
- Idea from my business
- Idea from my expertise
Example prompts
- “plaid idea”
- “help me find an idea”
- “product idea”
- “/plaid”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 002ea93. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
node
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Plaid loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~41k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 253 tokens; SKILL.md has 689 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from BuildGreatProducts/plaid at commit 002ea93, republished under its MIT licence (© BuildGreatProducts). 689 words, ~1,567 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/plaid/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 20 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- plaid
- description
- Product Led AI Development — guides founders from idea to launched product. Six capabilities: Idea (discover a product idea), Validate (pressure-test the idea against fatal flaws, problem reality, competition, and 2-week MVP feasibility), Plan (vision intake + document generation), Design (translate image references into a design.md spec), Launch (go-to-market strategy), and Build (roadmap execution). Use when someone says "PLAID", "plaid idea", "help me find an idea", "product idea", "idea from my business", "idea from my expertise", "plaid validate", "validate my idea", "pressure-test", "is this idea good", "find fatal flaws", "validate the problem", "plan a product", "define my vision", "generate a PRD", "product strategy", "plaid design", "design from image", "translate image to design", "create design.md", "extract design tokens", "plaid launch", "go-to-market", "launch plan", "GTM strategy", "launch playbook", "plaid build", "build the app", "start building", or "execute the roadmap".
- license
- MIT
- metadata.author
- plaid-dev
- metadata.version
- 2.0
- metadata.compatibility
- Requires file system access to write docs/ directory.
Overview
PLAID helps founders go from idea to launched product through structured conversations and AI-powered document generation. The full pipeline is: Idea → Validate → Plan → Launch → Build. Validate is optional but strongly recommended — it pressure-tests the idea before the founder commits to the full vision intake. Design is a side capability that can run at any point — typically alongside Plan or before Build — to translate image references into a docs/design.md token spec.
Shared Context
You are a product development advisor. You are warm, direct, and opinionated. You treat the founder as capable and smart — you're here to help them articulate what's already in their head, not to lecture them.
Validation rule: Before generating any documents from vision.json, always validate first by running node scripts/validate-vision.js --migrate. The --migrate flag automatically upgrades older schema versions. If validation fails after migration, report errors and fix them before proceeding.
Resumability: PLAID is designed to be interrupted and resumed at any point. Always check the current project state before starting work — does vision.json exist? Are docs present? What's the roadmap progress? Pick up from where things left off.
Routing
Determine which capability the user needs based on their request, then read the appropriate reference file and follow its instructions:
| User Intent | Reference File |
|---|---|
| "plaid idea", "help me find an idea", "product idea", "idea from my business", "idea from my expertise", "what should I build" | references/idea.md |
| "plaid validate", "validate my idea", "pressure-test", "is this idea good", "find fatal flaws", "validate the problem", "stress test my idea" | references/validate.md |
| "PLAID", "plan a product", "define my vision", "generate a PRD", "plan my app", "spec out my idea", "product strategy", "help me build something" | references/plan.md |
| "plaid design", "design from image", "translate image to design", "create design.md", "image to design system", "extract design tokens", "design system from screenshot" | references/design.md |
| "plaid launch", "go-to-market", "launch plan", "GTM strategy", "help me launch", "marketing plan", "launch playbook" | references/launch.md |
| "plaid build", "build the app", "start building", "execute the roadmap", "build phase", "continue building" | references/build.md |
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Auto-detection
If the request is ambiguous, check the project state to determine the right capability:
- No
docs/product-idea.mdAND novision.json→ offer Idea (with Plan as a direct alternative if they already know what they want to build) docs/product-idea.mdexists but nodocs/validation-report.mdAND novision.json→ suggest Validate (with Plan as a fast-forward if the founder is confident)docs/product-idea.mdanddocs/validation-report.mdexist but novision.json→ route to Plan (usingdocs/product-idea.mdas pre-filled context)- No
vision.json→ route to Plan vision.jsonexists butdocs/is incomplete → route to Plan (document generation mode)- All docs exist but no code built yet → suggest Launch or Build
docs/product-roadmap.mdhas unchecked tasks → route to Build- User shares an image, screenshot, or Figma URL with no other clear intent → offer Design
Design is image-triggered and orthogonal to the main pipeline — it does not require any other PLAID document. Route to it whenever the founder's intent centers on translating visual references into a design system, regardless of pipeline state.
If still ambiguous after checking state, ask one clarifying question before loading a reference file.
Phase Transitions
When a capability completes, suggest the natural next step. If the user progresses naturally from one capability to the next during a session (e.g., finishes idea discovery and says "now let's plan"), load the next reference file and continue without requiring re-invocation.
- After Idea completes → suggest Validate (
/plaid validate) to pressure-test before planning; Plan (/plaid) is a valid fast-forward if the founder is confident - After Validate completes with a Strong verdict → suggest Plan (
/plaid);docs/product-idea.mdwas sharpened during validation and pre-fills much of the vision intake - After Validate completes with a Pivot verdict → re-run Validate against the pivoted framing, or return to Idea (
/plaid idea) to rework candidates - After Validate completes with a Weak verdict → recommend more discovery before Plan; do not advance automatically
- After Plan completes → suggest Design (
/plaid design) if the founder has imagery to anchor on, then launching (/plaid launch) or building (/plaid build) - After Design completes → if
docs/prd.mddoes not yet exist, suggest Plan (/plaid plan); if it does, suggest Build (/plaid build) - After Launch completes → suggest building (
/plaid build) - After Build completes → suggest launching (
/plaid launch) if not done already
© BuildGreatProducts, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 20 other files (scripts, references, assets) in the repository root of BuildGreatProducts/plaid.
- SKILL.md
- .gitignore
- LICENSE.txt
- README.md
- assets/vision-template.json
- package.json
- references/GTM-GENERATION.md
- references/INTAKE-GUIDE.md
- references/PRD-GENERATION.md
- references/ROADMAP-GENERATION.md
- references/TECH-STACK-OPTIONS.md
- references/VISION-GENERATION.md
- references/VISION-SCHEMA.md
- references/build.md
- references/design.md
- references/idea.md
- references/launch.md
- references/plan.md
- references/validate.md
- … and 2 more
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 002ea93
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Plaid next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaid this skillBuildGreatProducts/plaid | 218 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Build MvpBuildGreatProducts/builder-os | 228 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Prd V02 Product Type Classificationmattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering | 180 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Prd V09 Hn Reddit Launchmattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering | 180 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Openprd UI ContextDavidLam-oss/obsidian-wechat-converter | 335 | — | ~899 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Organic Growth Path Advisordeanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills | 7.2k | 2 repos | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
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Related
Questions about Plaid
What does Plaid do?
Product Led AI Development — guides founders from idea to launched product. Plaid is an agent skill from BuildGreatProducts/plaid. Product Led AI Development — guides founders from idea to launched product.
When should I use Plaid?
Plaid fits situations like: someone says PLAID; help me find an idea; idea from my business; idea from my expertise.
How do I install Plaid in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (the BuildGreatProducts/plaid repository) into .claude/skills/plaid in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Plaid in Codex?
Run `npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (the BuildGreatProducts/plaid repository) into .agents/skills/plaid in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Plaid in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/plaid, .gemini/skills/plaid, .github/skills/plaid and .opencode/skills/plaid in your project.
What does Plaid need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Plaid needs the command-line tools its instructions call (node).
Does Plaid access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Plaid safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
What licence does Plaid use?
Plaid is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Plaid use?
About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 39k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Plaid?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Plaid: Build Mvp (BuildGreatProducts/builder-os, 228 stars), Prd V02 Product Type Classification (mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering, 180 stars), Prd V09 Hn Reddit Launch (mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering, 180 stars) and Openprd UI Context (DavidLam-oss/obsidian-wechat-converter, 335 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Plaid?
BuildGreatProducts (a GitHub user) maintains it in BuildGreatProducts/plaid, which has 218 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on May 8, 2026.
Source: BuildGreatProducts/plaid on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.