Writing Prds

The writing-prds skill helps product managers and team leads create effective product requirements documents by applying frameworks from 11 industry leaders. It guides users through structuring PRDs with emphasis on problem definition, success metrics, and actionable clarity—while adapting to modern approaches like prototypes, executable evaluations, and AI-generated scaffolding. The skill solves the problem of ambiguous or overly complex PRDs that fail to align teams and drive clear product action.

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$ npx -y skills add refoundai/lenny-skills --skill writing-prds --agent claude-code

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Writing Product Requirement Documents

Define clear problems and bounded solutions to maximize team velocity and creative output.

Help the user with writing product requirement documents using insights from 14 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

How to Help

Drafting the core problem - Assist in articulating a concise problem statement that is agnostic of any specific solution.
Establishing success metrics - Help define specific, measurable outcomes that will act as a filter for future feature requests.
Defining project boundaries - Guide the user through narrowing fuzzy requests into a bounded concept using shaping techniques.
Reviewing for clarity - Audit existing drafts for brevity, readability, and technical awareness to prevent micromanagement.

Core Principles

Design for functional prototyping

Jenny Wen: "We used to go off and make this two-year, five-year, 10-year vision even. Now it becomes a vision that's three to six months out, and isn't necessarily creating this beautiful deck, sometimes just creating a prototype that points people in the right direction."

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