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product-sense-interview-answer from deanpeters/product-manager-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

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SKILL.md skill
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Structure a spoken PM product-sense answer with assumptions, segmentation, pain-point prioritization, and MVP tradeoffs. Use when practicing design, improve, or build-next interview questions.

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

Help PM candidates and interview coaches structure product-sense answers that sound strong out loud, not just on paper. Use this when practicing prompts like "How would you improve X?", "Design a product for Y", or "What would you build next for Z?"

This is not a memorize-and-recite script. It is a reasoning scaffold that prevents solution-jumping, forces real prioritization, and leaves the interviewer with a clean story they can follow.

## Input

**Works best with:** The interview prompt you're practicing (e.g., 'How would you improve X?', 'Design a product for Y').
**Also useful:** The company/role you're interviewing for and how much time the answer gets.

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 prompt, then walks the reasoning scaffold with you out loud.

**Example invocation:** `Practice this: 'How would you improve Google Maps for commuters?' — 25-minute answer, L5 PM loop.`

## Key Concepts
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/product-sense-interview-answer@sha256:2171f3fe92120e58

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Source

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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_nob45ef55kcjeysl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/product-sense-interview-answer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2171f3fe92120e5830432417245082c297444c03a1b86a2fd0feb4289e99d86b

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