Agent skill

Identify Assumptions Existing

by phuryn in phuryn/pm-skills

Identify risky assumptions for a feature idea in an existing product across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility.

MITAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Identify Assumptions Existing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill identify-assumptions-existing -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install phuryn/pm-skills identify-assumptions-existing --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/pm-product-discovery/skills/identify-assumptions-existing .claude/skills/identify-assumptions-existing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
identify-assumptions-existing
GitHub stars
27k
Token cost
~525 tokens
SKILL.md length
207 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
67
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Identify risky assumptions for a feature idea in an existing product across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility.

  • Works in 3 steps: Think from three perspectives about why… → Identify assumptions across four risk… → For each assumption, note
  • Stress-testing a feature idea
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Doing risk assessment

What it does

Identify Assumptions Existing is an agent skill from phuryn/pm-skills. Identify risky assumptions for a feature idea in an existing product across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility. Uses multi-perspective devil's advocate thinking. Use when stress-testing a feature idea, doing risk assessment, or preparing for assumption mapping.

Its SKILL.md is about 530 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering UX design and Load testing. The repository describes itself as: PM Skills Marketplace: 100+ agentic skills, commands, and plugins — from discovery to strategy, execution, launch, and growth. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Stress-testing a feature idea
  • Doing risk assessment
  • Preparing for assumption mapping

Example prompts

  • “/identify-assumptions-existing”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Think from three perspectives about why this feature might fail
  2. Identify assumptions across four risk areas
  3. For each assumption, note

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6058e29. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • productcompass.pm

    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

Identify Assumptions Existing loads about 525 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 207 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~75
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~525

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from phuryn/pm-skills at commit 6058e29, republished under its MIT licence (© phuryn). 207 words, ~525 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/identify-assumptions-existing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
identify-assumptions-existing
description
Identify risky assumptions for a feature idea in an existing product across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility. Uses multi-perspective devil's advocate thinking. Use when stress-testing a feature idea, doing risk assessment, or preparing for assumption mapping.

Identify Assumptions (Existing Product)

Devil's advocate analysis to surface risky assumptions across four risk areas.

Context

You are stress-testing a feature idea for $ARGUMENTS.

If the user provides files (designs, PRDs, research), read them first.

Instructions

The user will describe their product, objective, market segment, and feature idea. Work through these steps:

  1. Think from three perspectives about why this feature might fail:

    • Product Manager perspective: Business viability, market fit, strategic alignment
    • Designer perspective: Usability, user experience, adoption barriers
    • Engineer perspective: Technical feasibility, performance, integration challenges
  2. Identify assumptions across four risk areas:

    • Value: Will it create value for customers? Does it solve a real problem?
    • Usability: Will users figure out how to use it? Is the learning curve acceptable?
    • Viability: Can marketing, sales, finance, and legal support it?
    • Feasibility: Can it be built with existing technology? Are there integration risks?
  3. For each assumption, note:

    • What specifically could go wrong
    • How confident you are (High/Medium/Low)
    • Suggested way to test it

Think step by step. Be thorough but constructive — the goal is to strengthen the idea, not kill it.


Further Reading

© phuryn, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in pm-product-discovery/skills/identify-assumptions-existing of phuryn/pm-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6058e29

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Questions about Identify Assumptions Existing

What does Identify Assumptions Existing do?

Identify risky assumptions for a feature idea in an existing product across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility. Identify Assumptions Existing is an agent skill from phuryn/pm-skills. Identify risky assumptions for a feature idea in an existing product across Value, Usability, Viability, and Feasibility.

When should I use Identify Assumptions Existing?

Identify Assumptions Existing fits situations like: stress-testing a feature idea; doing risk assessment; preparing for assumption mapping.

How do I install Identify Assumptions Existing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill identify-assumptions-existing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (pm-product-discovery/skills/identify-assumptions-existing in phuryn/pm-skills) into .claude/skills/identify-assumptions-existing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Identify Assumptions Existing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill identify-assumptions-existing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (pm-product-discovery/skills/identify-assumptions-existing in phuryn/pm-skills) into .agents/skills/identify-assumptions-existing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Identify Assumptions Existing 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 phuryn/pm-skills --skill identify-assumptions-existing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/identify-assumptions-existing, .gemini/skills/identify-assumptions-existing, .github/skills/identify-assumptions-existing and .opencode/skills/identify-assumptions-existing in your project.

What does Identify Assumptions Existing need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Identify Assumptions Existing is instructions for the agent only.

Does Identify Assumptions Existing access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: productcompass.pm. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Identify Assumptions Existing 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. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Identify Assumptions Existing use?

Identify Assumptions Existing is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Identify Assumptions Existing use?

About 525 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Identify Assumptions Existing?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Identify Assumptions Existing: HTML Feature Mocks (imbue-ai/bouncer, 399 stars), LobeHub UX Checklists (lobehub/lobehub, 83k stars), Lamina Evaluation (aryaniyaps/lamina, 116 stars) and Product Skills (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Identify Assumptions Existing?

phuryn (a GitHub user) maintains it in phuryn/pm-skills, which has 26,862 GitHub stars. The repository holds 67 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: phuryn/pm-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.