# inspired-product

A Claude Code skill that splits product work into discovery and delivery, then scores your team from 0 to 7 on seven diagnostic rows.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 5100 installs · ★ 2508
- Author: wondelai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/HEAD/inspired-product/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/inspired-product

## What it does

The skill hands the agent a frame from the empowered-teams playbook: product work runs on two tracks. Discovery tests an idea against four risks (value, usability, feasibility, viability). Delivery builds what survived. The bundle is `SKILL.md` plus two references: `references/discovery-techniques.md` with an interview script and evidence thresholds, `references/empowered-teams.md` with role breakdowns and the marks of a feature factory.

The diagnostic is blunt. The agent scores a team on seven rows, gives 0 to 7 and names the rows that fail. At 6–7 discovery runs continuously with engineers in the room. At 4–5 it happens in bursts. At 3 or below you have dated features on a roadmap and no discovery.

Nothing to configure beyond the skill itself, though the answers are only as good as what you tell the agent about your team. It does not replace customer interviews: the same repository carries `mom-test` for those.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill inspired-product -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/inspired-product/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/inspired-product/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill inspired-product -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/inspired-product/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill inspired-product -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/inspired-product/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install wondelai/skills inspired-product
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/inspired-product/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill inspired-product -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/wondelai/skills --path inspired-product
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/inspired-product/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill inspired-product -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/HEAD/inspired-product/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Restructure a feature team around outcomes
- Score a team on seven diagnostic rows and find the failing ones
- Test an idea against the four risks before engineering starts
- Write a product vision and strategy instead of a dated feature list
- Explain to leadership why a feature roadmap stalls

## Example prompts
- Score our team with the Quick Diagnostic and name the rows we fail.
- Our roadmap is just a feature list. What changes first if we move to empowered teams?
- Run an opportunity assessment on the new onboarding flow across the four risks.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: inspired-product
description: 'Build empowered product teams using discovery and delivery dual-track. Use when the user mentions "product discovery", "empowered teams", "feature factory", "opportunity assessment", "product vision", "product strategy", "what should we build", or "our roadmap is just a feature list". Also trigger when restructuring teams away from output-driven models, or deciding what to build next based on outcomes. Covers discovery techniques, team structure, opportunity assessment, vision/strategy, and continuous delivery. For customer interviews, see mom-test. For ongoing discovery systems, see continuous-discovery.'
license: MIT
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  author: wondelai
  version: "1.4.0"
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# Empowered Product Teams Framework

Framework for building products customers love through empowered teams that own continuous discovery and delivery. The best product companies don't ship features -- they solve problems, and they give teams the autonomy and accountability to figure out how.

## Core Principle

**Empowered product teams** = cross-functional groups given problems to solve (not features to build) who own discovery and delivery end-to-end.

Most product failures come not from bad engineering or design but from building things nobody wants. Feature teams receive roadmaps and execute; empowered teams receive objectives and discover solutions. The difference between a feature factory and an innovation engine is whether teams are missionaries (driven by vision and empathy) or mercenaries (driven by a handed-down backlog).

## Scoring

**Goal: 7/7.** Score product team structures, discovery practices, or delivery processes by the Quick Diagnostic below -- **1 point per satisfied row**, scored 0-7. Bands: **6-7** = empowered teams own outcomes and discovery runs continuously with engineers; **4-5** = discovery happens but inconsistently, or teams own output with partial outcome accountability; **<=3** = a feature factory: teams receive a roadmap of dated features and skip discovery. Always state the current score and the specific failed diagnostic rows to fix to reach 7/7.

## Framework

### 1. Product Discovery vs Delivery

**Core concept:** Product work runs on two parallel tracks: discovery determines what to build by addressing risks before engineering investment; delivery builds production-quality software. Most organizations skip discovery entirely, jumping from idea to backlog to sprint.

**Why it works:** Discovery is cheap and fast; delivery is expensive and slow. Validating ideas before committing engineering avoids the most common failure mode: building something nobody wants.

**Key insights:**
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