Definition & planning sub-skill: Understanding the idea

Turns a raw, one-paragraph idea into a clear problem statement, target user, and success definition, before any research starts.

SKILL.md

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name: understanding-of-idea
description: Turns a raw, one-paragraph idea into a clear problem statement, target user, and success definition. Use as the first phase when developing a new digital product, before any research starts.
---
## Ask, do not assume

Ask the user for: the one-sentence version of the idea, who they think has this problem today, and what "working" looks like six months in. Push back if any answer is vague. Do not fill it in yourself.

## Write the output

Save the answers to docs/product/idea.md: problem statement, target user, and success definition, one paragraph each.

• The instruction to push back on vague answers is doing real work here. Without it, this skill would happily write a confident-sounding idea.md from three shaky answers, and every later phase reads that file as settled fact.
• docs/product/idea.md is the first file in the chain every later phase reads from. See how phases hand off context.

Where it fits

Invoked by Definition & planning, first of its four sub-skills, before anything else runs. Hands off to Research, which is the next sub-skill to read docs/product/idea.md.