foundation-build-risk-review SKILL.md skillA
foundation-build-risk-review from product-on-purpose/pm-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add product-on-purpose/pm-skills/foundation-build-risk-review@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 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/foundation-build-risk-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Aug 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 8,547 bytes
- Repository stars
- 790
- License
- Apache-2.0
Runs a fast pre-build risk review on a product idea, feature request, or scope change, naming the single assumption most likely to make it fail and returning a clear verdict (build small, validate first, pivot first, or don't build yet) with a no-code validation step. Use before committing build effort, when triaging whether to honor a feature request, or when deciding whether to expand scope, ahead of writing a PRD. For a launched product's pivot-or-persevere decision, use…
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
<!-- PM-Skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills | Apache 2.0 --> <!-- Adapted from bin1874/before-you-build-skill (Apache-2.0), repositioned PM-neutral. --> # Build Risk Review Don't build it yet. First name the one assumption most likely to make it fail. `foundation-build-risk-review` is a fast, pre-commitment gate for product decisions. Given an idea, a feature request, or a scope change, it returns a **Build Risk Review**: the single biggest risk, the evidence behind it, a verdict, and a concrete no-code validation step, then routes you to the skill that does the next piece of work. It is a foundation hub: its job is to triage and dispatch, not to duplicate the deeper skills. ## Hard gate Do not write code, scaffold a project, recommend a stack, or design implementation. First answer three things: should this be built, what is most likely to make it fail, and what must be validated before committing. If the user says the work is for learning, a portfolio, or internal practice, do not judge it by market standards; still flag scope and clarity risks. ## When to Use - A product idea, MVP, or new bet is about to turn into build work. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/pm-skills/foundation-build-risk-review@sha256:c8ac85095fdc23b1The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_e3uqs44udjthqjb7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Aug 26, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-08-26 | 43769da | 8,547 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-26 | 7605947 | 8,410 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-26 | e27476a | 7,906 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-16 | 9528875 | 7,906 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-07-05 | 87e423c | 6,765 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8547 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
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_e3uqs44udjthqjb7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/pm-skills/foundation-build-risk-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c8ac85095fdc23b1c3f7341e14a785d33db4cf02922b3afda3fb71149eb4baa0
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