epic-hypothesis SKILL.md skillA
epic-hypothesis 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/epic-hypothesis@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/epic-hypothesis/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260810.b68bf96, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 5, 2026
- Size
- 12,657 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,599
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Frame an epic as a testable hypothesis with target user, expected outcome, and validation method. Use when defining a major initiative before roadmap, discovery, or delivery planning.
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
Frame epics as testable hypotheses using an if/then structure that articulates the action or solution, the target beneficiary, the expected outcome, and how you'll validate success. Use this to manage uncertainty in product development by making assumptions explicit, defining lightweight experiments ("tiny acts of discovery"), and establishing measurable success criteria before committing to full build-out.
This is not a requirements spec—it's a hypothesis you're testing, not a feature you're committed to shipping.
## Input
**Works best with:** The initiative or epic idea, in whatever form it currently exists — a sentence is enough.
**Also useful:** The target user, the outcome you expect, and how you might measure it (the skill helps you sharpen all three).
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 what the initiative is and who it's for, then builds the if/then hypothesis with you.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/epic-hypothesis@sha256:745140f00f5cf882The 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_uy46aisxvxl5lfnk)
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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.
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| git:20260810.b68bf96 latest | 2026-08-10 | b68bf96 | 12,657 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260704.6a4fbf2 | 2026-07-04 | 6a4fbf2 | 12,197 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260309.0a8f6ac | 2026-03-09 | 0a8f6ac | 11,400 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260205.5d8ce73 | 2026-02-05 | 5d8ce73 | 10,993 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260205.eeab969 | 2026-02-05 | eeab969 | 14,189 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 (12657 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_uy46aisxvxl5lfnk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/epic-hypothesis GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/745140f00f5cf8822f85e04be42ffa53ff6c703c07ce897e48170cc5c2c4c552
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.