problem-framing-canvas SKILL.md skillA
problem-framing-canvas 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/problem-framing-canvas@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
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skills/problem-framing-canvas/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260810.b68bf96, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 10, 2026
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- 7,599
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- a license file GitHub does not identify
Guide teams through MITRE's Problem Framing Canvas. Use when you need a clearer problem statement before jumping to solutions.
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 the MITRE Problem Framing Canvas process by asking structured questions across three phases: Look Inward (examine your own assumptions and biases), Look Outward (understand who experiences the problem and who doesn't), and Reframe (synthesize insights into an actionable problem statement and "How Might We" question). Use this to ensure you're solving the right problem before jumping to solutions—avoiding confirmation bias, overlooked stakeholders, and solution-first thinking. This is not a solution brainstorm—it's a problem framing tool that broadens perspective, challenges assumptions, and produces a clear, equity-driven problem statement. ## Input **Works best with:** The problem area — however roughly you currently understand it. **Also useful:** Who you believe experiences it, evidence so far, and the solution everyone is already anchored on (naming it helps the canvas de-bias it). 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/problem-framing-canvas@sha256:e4c9402181639228The 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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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_eyxlyeu2klzorjy6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/problem-framing-canvas GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e4c94021816392287471c6a49fac6d12249097eef28f07e7d17da0dfc289c303
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