user-story-mapping SKILL.md skillA
user-story-mapping from deanpeters/product-manager-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/user-story-mapping@git:20260810.b68bf96Pins git:20260810.b68bf96 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deanpeters/product-manager-skills
- Path
skills/user-story-mapping/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260810.b68bf96, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 5, 2026
- Size
- 11,522 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,599
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Create a user story map that lays out activities, steps, tasks, and release slices. Use when planning a workflow, backlog, or MVP around the user journey.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## Purpose Visualize the user journey by creating a hierarchical map that breaks down high-level activities into steps and tasks, organized left-to-right as a narrative flow. Use this to build shared understanding across product, design, and engineering, prioritize features based on user workflows, and identify gaps or opportunities in the user experience. This is not a backlog—it's a strategic artifact that shows *how* users accomplish their goals, which then informs *what* to build. ## Input **Works best with:** The product or user workflow being mapped. **Also useful:** The primary user, the end-to-end narrative as you understand it, existing backlog items to place, and release goals. Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask. **Arriving empty-handed? That works too.** The skill asks whose journey you're mapping and what they're trying to get done, then builds backbone → tasks → slices. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/user-story-mapping@sha256:4c2b20da16594cf6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260810.b68bf96, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 5, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026, about one every 47 days.
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| git:20260810.b68bf96 latest | 2026-08-10 | b68bf96 | 11,522 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260704.6a4fbf2 | 2026-07-04 | 6a4fbf2 | 11,085 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260309.0a8f6ac | 2026-03-09 | 0a8f6ac | 10,308 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260205.5d8ce73 | 2026-02-05 | 5d8ce73 | 9,993 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260205.eeab969 | 2026-02-05 | eeab969 | 11,786 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
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- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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Source
deanpeters/product-manager-skills · 7,599 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3ogxjznncdmepdn6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/user-story-mapping GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4c2b20da16594cf6a0975b188a725357e4d15f782a2fb10b6327000aed53aa8d
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