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Install it, pinned
mdr add product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tool-foundation-sprint-basics@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
product-on-purpose/pm-skills
Path
skills/tool-foundation-sprint-basics/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded
May 15, 2026
Size
9,229 bytes
Repository stars
790
License
Apache-2.0

Day 1 morning move of a Foundation Sprint. Forces explicit team choices on target customer, important problem, team advantage, and competitors and alternatives. Produces a single coherent strategic frame that becomes the input to Day 1 afternoon Differentiation. Use after the sprint brief is signed and Day 1 morning is scheduled. Bundled artifact, not four separate decisions.

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What the file says

<!-- PM-Skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills | Apache 2.0 -->

# Foundation Sprint Basics

Day 1 morning of a Foundation Sprint. The team makes four foundational choices explicit: who the product is for, what important problem it solves, why this team has a right to win, and what customers do today instead. The output is one coherent strategic frame, not four separable decisions.

Family contract: [`site/src/content/docs/reference/skill-families/foundation-sprint-skills-contract.md`](../../site/src/content/docs/reference/skill-families/foundation-sprint-skills-contract.md). This skill is a member of `foundation-sprint-skills`.

## When to Use

- Day 1 morning of a Foundation Sprint, after the brief is signed.
- The team has sufficient customer and market knowledge (per readiness verdict) to make informed choices.
- Each of the four sub-decisions is open or contested; the team has not pre-aligned on any of them.
- The Decider is in the room and ready to sign off on the bundled output before lunch.

## When NOT to Use
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tool-foundation-sprint-basics@sha256:93db0b4cfbc215d5

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9229 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

product-on-purpose/pm-skills · 790 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6qbqdwtwcsc7gprj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tool-foundation-sprint-basics
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/93db0b4cfbc215d528f9b7edc99cbc33dbdf89f7f3b86ddb3a5bed65fb369410

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