recommendation-canvas SKILL.md skillA
recommendation-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/recommendation-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
- Path
skills/recommendation-canvas/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260810.b68bf96, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 5, 2026
- Size
- 14,999 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,599
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Evaluate an AI product idea across outcomes, hypotheses, risks, and positioning. Use when deciding whether an AI solution deserves investment or recommendation.
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 Evaluate and propose AI product solutions using a structured canvas that assesses business outcomes, customer outcomes, problem framing, solution hypotheses, positioning, risks, and value justification. Use this to build a comprehensive, defensible recommendation for stakeholders and decision-makers—especially when proposing AI-powered features or products that carry higher uncertainty and risk. This is not a feature spec—it's a strategic proposal that articulates *why* this AI solution is worth building, *what* assumptions need validating, and *how* you'll measure success. ## Input **Works best with:** The AI product or feature idea being evaluated. **Also useful:** Target customer, expected business outcome, known risks, and who the recommendation must convince. 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. **Arriving empty-handed? That works too.** The skill asks for the idea and the decision-maker, then works through the canvas boxes. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/recommendation-canvas@sha256:bc06e2a209e2b4e8The 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 5, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026, about one every 47 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260810.b68bf96 latest | 2026-08-10 | b68bf96 | 14,999 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260704.6a4fbf2 | 2026-07-04 | 6a4fbf2 | 14,542 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260309.0a8f6ac | 2026-03-09 | 0a8f6ac | 13,813 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260205.5d8ce73 | 2026-02-05 | 5d8ce73 | 13,439 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260205.eeab969 | 2026-02-05 | eeab969 | 16,960 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 (14999 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
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_kcbvcyaukr2d24wo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/recommendation-canvas GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bc06e2a209e2b4e8eda7183cd94c8bc1d041db142a29a21a1f5999867d06cd8b
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.