opportunity-solution-tree SKILL.md skillA
opportunity-solution-tree 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/opportunity-solution-tree@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/opportunity-solution-tree/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260810.b68bf96, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 10, 2026
- Size
- 18,041 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,599
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Build an Opportunity Solution Tree from outcomes to opportunities, solutions, and tests. Use when a stakeholder request needs problem framing before you decide what to build.
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 Guide product managers through creating an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) by extracting target outcomes from stakeholder requests, generating opportunity options (problems to solve), mapping potential solutions, and selecting the best proof-of-concept (POC) based on feasibility, impact, and market fit. Use this to move from vague product requests to structured discovery, ensuring teams solve the right problems before jumping to solutions—avoiding "feature factory" syndrome and premature convergence on ideas. This is not a roadmap generator—it's a structured discovery process that outputs validated opportunities with testable solution hypotheses. ## Input **Works best with:** The stakeholder request or the target outcome you're starting from. **Also useful:** Customer evidence you already have, constraints, and solutions already being pushed. 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. …
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How to install
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/opportunity-solution-tree@sha256:ecd7eb3f864118b2The 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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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 10, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026, about one every 45 days.
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| git:20260810.b68bf96 latest | 2026-08-10 | b68bf96 | 18,041 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260704.6a4fbf2 | 2026-07-04 | 6a4fbf2 | 17,569 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260309.0a8f6ac | 2026-03-09 | 0a8f6ac | 16,815 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260211.cc730da | 2026-02-11 | cc730da | 16,311 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260210.c95ff78 | 2026-02-10 | c95ff78 | 16,208 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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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_6e4itqcp6szmplye GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/opportunity-solution-tree GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ecd7eb3f864118b2afb6caf84697f5e67d5fa6c8f2c9ddeae95be96c891e2292
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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