Product Frame Stack Agent Skill

Walks one validated problem up a load-bearing stack — validated problem → vision → strategy → product vision → North Star → OKRs →…

Context cost
11.4k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
13 files · 45.5 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
Apache-2.0the author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Walks one validated problem up a load-bearing stack — validated problem → vision → strategy → product vision → North Star → OKRs → dual-track roadmap — and BLOCKS any layer from resting on an unvalidated problem below it. Fires on "frame the business", "vision to roadmap", "what's the strategy", "turn this validated problem into a roadmap", "give me the vision, North Star and OKRs". Output is a filled frame stack where every layer inherits the problem's evidence rung and every roadmap item ladders to a North Star.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

productivity

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md15.2 kB · preview
--- name: product-frame-stack type: generator supersedes: none ---
17# Product Frame Stack
18
19## What it does
20Turns a *validated* problem into the full strategic frame in one pass: vision, strategy, product vision, North Star, OKRs, and a dual-track roadmap. It treats these seven layers as a load-bearing stack, not a flat canvas. The problem sits at the bottom and carries an evidence rung; every layer above inherits that rung as a confidence ceiling. If the problem has not cleared the Icarus gate, the stack does not get built — the skill stops at the floor and routes the fellow back to the gate. The output is a filled frame stack ([template.md](template.md)) in which no roadmap item exists without a North Star to move, and no layer claims more certainty than the problem underneath it.
21
22## The Icarus reframe
23A business-model or recommendation canvas lays the boxes flat: fill vision, strategy, metrics, roadmap side by side, each on whatever evidence you happen to have, and you get a "recommendation" even if every box rests on opinion. Icarus refuses the flat canvas. The layers are stacked and structural. Two rules make them load-bearing. First, the **gate**: nothing enters the stack until the problem has passed problem-quality-scorecard (≥32/40) or so-what-stress-test (PASS) — an unvalidated problem is a cracked foundation and the stack refuses to be poured on it. A PASS resting on behaviour or money (0.7+) unlocks a full-confidence stack; a *soft* PASS resting only on an artefact or a verbal "yes" (0.5/0.3) still enters, but the whole stack is stamped [Assumption] and the roadmap is labelled a bet, not a committed plan (this is the Layer-0 floor, below). Second, the **ceiling**: the whole stack is stamped with the problem's evidence rung, so a roadmap resting on a [Assumption]-grade problem is itself a bet, tagged as one, never a committed plan. The North Star is the joint between strategy and delivery, and it is mandatory: a roadmap with no North Star, or a roadmap item that ladders to nothing, is an auto-fail. Dual-track runs the whole height — discovery beside delivery at every horizon — because launch is when discovery gets cheap, not when it ends.
24
25## When to use / When NOT
26Use it when a fellow holds ONE problem that has already cleared the gate and needs the strategy frame built on top of it, end to end.
27
28| Situation | Use this? | Go to |
29|---|---|---|
30| "Frame the business — vision to roadmap." | Yes | product-frame-stack |
31| "We passed the problem gate. What's the strategy and roadmap?" | Yes | product-frame-stack |
32| "Give me the vision, North Star, and OKRs for this." | Yes | product-frame-stack |
33| "Score this problem across the eight dimensions — go or no-go?" | No | problem-quality-scorecard (the gate this consumes) |
34| "Is this desirable / feasible / viable — should we build it?" | No | four-lenses-test |
35| "What metrics matter after launch? Is retention flattening?" | No | metrics-that-matter |
36| "What should we actually build — invent the solution?" | No | invent-by-hand |
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md2,486 words
Files13
LicenceApache-2.0
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈230
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
11,145
on trigger
The instruction body and 12 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
5.7%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 57% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

11.4k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

13 files, 45.5 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md15.2 kB
  • template.md4.3 kB
  • examples/sample.md6.2 kB
  • tests/RESULTS.md6.0 kB
  • tests/rubric.json1.1 kB
  • tests/adversarial/01.md1.0 kB
  • tests/adversarial/02.md1.6 kB
  • tests/adversarial/03.md1.2 kB
  • tests/golden/01.md2.0 kB
  • tests/golden/02.md1.9 kB
  • tests/golden/03.md1.7 kB
  • tests/golden/04.md1.3 kB
  • tests/golden/05.md2.0 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 13 files you can review in full before installing. The Apache-2.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Product Frame Stack · 11.4k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/product-frame-stack/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/product-frame-stack" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/product-frame-stack ] || { mv .claude/skills/product-frame-stack "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/product-frame-stack" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/product-frame-stack"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add the-utopia-studio/product-frame-stack

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/product-frame-stack/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/product-frame-stack/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/product-frame-stack" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/product-frame-stack ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/product-frame-stack "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/product-frame-stack" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/product-frame-stack" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/product-frame-stack/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencethe-utopia-studio/product-frame-stack

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