prfaq-working-backwards SKILL.md skillA
prfaq-working-backwards from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/prfaq-working-backwards@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/big-tech-processes/prfaq-working-backwards/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 2,978 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Write an Amazon PR-FAQ that starts from a launch-day press release and hard customer questions so an idea is tested on the customer before it is built. Use when proposing a new product or feature and you need to prove it is worth building.
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
# PR-FAQ and working backwards Amazon's PR-FAQ makes you write the launch announcement first, before any code, so the idea has to survive contact with a customer who never read your roadmap. Working backwards from that press release exposes the products that sparkle in a planning deck but have no sentence a real person would care about. If the release is boring to write, the product will be boring to use. ## Method 1. **Draft the press release as if you ship today.** One page, dated at launch, written in past tense. Lead with the customer and their problem, then the solution, then a quote from someone relieved it exists. Ban internal jargon: if an outside reader cannot follow it, the pitch is not ready. 2. **Load the value into the headline and subhead.** The headline names the product; the subhead states who it serves and the benefit in one line. If you cannot compress the value into that subhead, the idea is unfocused, and no amount of body copy will rescue it. 3. **Write the customer FAQ in the customer's voice.** What it costs, what it replaces, what it will not do, how their data is handled. Answer plainly. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/prfaq-working-backwards@sha256:76811a790afaaa9aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, 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_pb7bznstxi2hkglp)
4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 2,978 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 2,978 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 (2978 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
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pb7bznstxi2hkglp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/prfaq-working-backwards GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/76811a790afaaa9a2b5b7cb2bf4050908d8be6d74b3ac28663396b02db95a8d2
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.