Agent skill

Prioritize Features

by phuryn in phuryn/pm-skills

Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations.

MITAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Prioritize Features

skills CLI
$ npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill prioritize-features -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install phuryn/pm-skills prioritize-features --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/prioritize-features .claude/skills/prioritize-features && 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
prioritize-features
GitHub stars
27k
Token cost
~623 tokens
SKILL.md length
262 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
62
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations.

  • Works in 4 steps: Understand priorities: Confirm the… → Evaluate each feature against → Recommend the top 5 features with → …
  • Prioritizing a feature backlog
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Making scope decisions

What it does

Prioritize Features is an agent skill from phuryn/pm-skills. Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations. Use when prioritizing a feature backlog, making scope decisions, or ranking product ideas.

Its SKILL.md is about 620 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 Product & Project Management, covering Prioritization frameworks. 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

  • Prioritizing a feature backlog
  • Making scope decisions
  • Ranking product ideas

Example prompts

  • “/prioritize-features”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Understand priorities: Confirm the product objective and success metrics.
  2. Evaluate each feature against
  3. Recommend the top 5 features with
  4. Present as a prioritization table if helpful.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8607e3b. 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

Prioritize Features loads about 623 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 262 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~58
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~623

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 8607e3b, republished under its MIT licence (© phuryn). 262 words, ~623 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/prioritize-features/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
prioritize-features
description
Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations. Use when prioritizing a feature backlog, making scope decisions, or ranking product ideas.

Prioritize Feature Backlog

Evaluate and rank a backlog of feature ideas to identify the top 5 to pursue.

Context

You are helping prioritize features for $ARGUMENTS.

If the user provides files (spreadsheets, backlogs, opportunity assessments), read and analyze them directly.

Domain Context

For framework selection guidance, see the prioritization-frameworks skill. Key recommendations:

Opportunity Score (Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook) is recommended for evaluating customer problems: Opportunity Score = Importance × (1 − Satisfaction), normalized to 0–1. High Importance + low Satisfaction = best opportunities. Prioritize problems (opportunities), not solutions.

ICE is recommended for quick scoring of initiatives: Impact (Opportunity Score × # Customers) × Confidence × Ease. RICE adds Reach as a separate factor for larger teams.

Instructions

The user will describe their product objective, desired outcomes, and provide feature ideas. Work through these steps:

  1. Understand priorities: Confirm the product objective and success metrics.

  2. Evaluate each feature against:

    • Impact: How much does it move the needle on desired outcomes? Consider Opportunity Score if customer data is available.
    • Effort: How much development, design, and coordination is required?
    • Risk: How much uncertainty exists? What assumptions need testing?
    • Strategic alignment: How well does it fit the product vision and current goals?
  3. Recommend the top 5 features with:

    • Clear ranking (1-5)
    • Brief rationale for each selection
    • Key trade-offs considered
    • What was deprioritized and why
  4. Present as a prioritization table if helpful.

Think step by step. Save as markdown if the output is substantial.


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/prioritize-features of phuryn/pm-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8607e3b

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Questions about Prioritize Features

What does Prioritize Features do?

Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations. Prioritize Features is an agent skill from phuryn/pm-skills. Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations.

When should I use Prioritize Features?

Prioritize Features fits situations like: prioritizing a feature backlog; making scope decisions; ranking product ideas.

How do I install Prioritize Features in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Prioritize Features in Codex?

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

Can I use Prioritize Features 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 prioritize-features -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/prioritize-features, .gemini/skills/prioritize-features, .github/skills/prioritize-features and .opencode/skills/prioritize-features in your project.

What does Prioritize Features need to run?

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

Does Prioritize Features 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 Prioritize Features 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 Prioritize Features use?

Prioritize Features 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 Prioritize Features use?

About 623 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.5k 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 Prioritize Features?

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Who maintains Prioritize Features?

phuryn (a GitHub user) maintains it in phuryn/pm-skills, which has 26,809 GitHub stars. The repository holds 62 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 14, 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.