Stop building the wrong thing faster.

AI makes you wrong faster. Every PM skill on the market helps you write PRDs, generate user stories, and fill templates quicker. None of them stop you from building the wrong thing in the first place.

You've been here.

You say "I want to build a workout tracker." Claude starts scaffolding the database. Twenty minutes later you have a working prototype of something you haven't thought through.

Or: "Add a delete button." Two hours later you're in a rabbit hole. Delete what? Related data? Undo? The job wasn't "have a delete button." It was "I made a mistake and need to fix it." Or "I'm done with this and want it gone." Different jobs, different solutions. Both real. Neither one is "add a delete button."

Speed didn't help. Speed made you wrong, faster.

This skill does two things.

First, it clarifies the job. Who struggles with what, and why does it matter? Not a template. Not a form to fill out. A conversation that ends in one sentence you both agree on.

You say a feature? It doesn't slap your hand. It reads between the lines: "You said add a delete button. Is the job 'I made a mistake and need to undo it' or 'I'm done with this and want it gone'? Because one needs undo, and the other needs a confirmation step." You confirm or correct. Faster than starting from scratch, sharper than starting from a template.

Second, it frames the boundaries. What's in, what's out. What you know for a fact. And what you're betting on. You get early clarity on which bet kills everything if you're wrong.

Then you can start solutioning on how to actually solve the job. That's it. No PRDs. No user stories. No 12-section documents nobody reads. Just a shared understanding of the problem and where the edges are.

What happens during the build

Scope creeps. It always does. A new feature, a new capability, something that wasn't in the plan. One question surfaces:

Which job does that serve?

Not the full process again. Just enough to keep you honest.

How it's different

Every other PM skill	This one
Generates documents	Generates understanding
You invoke it when you know what to build	Fires when you don't know yet
Output: PRDs, user stories, roadmaps	Output: one sentence and a short list
Makes you a faster writer	Makes you a better thinker

The necessary friction between your idea and your code.

You're already building fast. Build right.

Install

npx skills add aarte/product-framing

Or copy SKILL.md to your ~/.claude/skills/ directory.

License

MIT