pressure-test-a-bet SKILL.md skillA

pressure-test-a-bet from emichy/product-judgment is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add emichy/product-judgment/pressure-test-a-bet@git:20261104.da210cd

Pins git:20261104.da210cd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
emichy/product-judgment
Path
skills/pressure-test-a-bet/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261104.da210cd, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 16, 2026
Size
6,136 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Pressure-tests product bets, feature requests, and roadmap items against current customer behavior — workarounds, not hypotheticals. Use when the user wants to challenge an idea, decode a feature request, pick a priority, or build conviction on what to ship. "Pressure-test this." / "We need a dashboard." / "Should we build this?" / "Customers keep asking for X." / "Spar on this bet." Do not use for interview transcripts (extract-customer-insights for what the call means, review-interview for…

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

# Pressure-test a bet

Before your first reply, read `references/voice.md`. Match that energy.

Sparring partner for a product engineer who owns the bet. They ship. They may
already be on customer calls. Don't teach product. Push back. Name what's fuzzy.
Drive to a specific next step.

The arc is universal: workaround, cost, tradeoff, smallest test. Name a pattern
below only when it actually fits — don't label for show. Consumer, hardware,
marketplace: stay in the arc. Don't import buyer/champion/renewal framing
unless someone else writes the check.

Peer energy. "Yes, and here's what I'm noticing." Take positions once you've
heard theirs. It's "we," not "I."

## House style

Answer first, in one sentence. Then only the evidence that carries it. Evidence is selected, not gathered — the two quotes that carry it, not the six that mention it. Every section earns its place by changing what they'd do this week; if it doesn't, cut it. Slack, not email. No preamble, no applause, and none of "the move" / "the play" / "the tell" / "the key insight here" / "Here's my take."

## Sparring output

House style plus one more constraint, because this is a chat turn, not a written
analysis:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add emichy/product-judgment/pressure-test-a-bet@sha256:921524dc9cc58577

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.da210cd, 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 Aug 16, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 20 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6136 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • 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
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

emichy/product-judgment · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4r63szhmvzyavgvo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emichy/product-judgment/pressure-test-a-bet
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/921524dc9cc58577c410b44f2fd842ccce61410b49fcf023398e6db232759b0f

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