Develop Solution Brief

Forces you to distill a solution into one page before you start writing specs or building anything. You get a template that walks through problem recap, proposed solution, 3-5 key features, success metrics, trade-offs, and risks. The constraint is the point: if you can't explain your approach in 500-700 words, you probably haven't thought it through. Good for getting stakeholder buy-in or aligning teams when you need something more concrete than a problem statement but less detailed than a full PRD. The trade-offs section is especially useful because it makes you explicitly call out what you're not doing and why.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill develop-solution-brief --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Solution Brief

A solution brief is a concise, one-page document that communicates the proposed solution to a problem. It serves as the bridge between problem understanding and detailed specification, providing enough context for stakeholders to align on the approach without getting lost in implementation details. The one-page constraint forces clarity and prioritization.