describing-products SKILL.md skillA
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describing-products from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/describing-products@v0.2.0Pins v0.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
describing-products/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.2.0, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 14, 2026
- Size
- 15,150 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Builds a product description repo for a software product - prose documents that say, feature by feature and event by event, what the user sees, what they can do, and exactly what happens when they do it, including when they stop halfway. Drafted from the code and tests, verified against the running product with hand checklists, and triaged into a bug list. Works for canvas editors, web apps, CLIs, chat products, mobile apps, and libraries or SDKs. Use when asked to…
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
# Describing products
A product description treats the product as a large state chart the user moves through with input. The repo describes that state chart feature by feature, in plain language, from the user's side, with one skeleton for every document so that gaps and inconsistencies show up by comparison. Documents are drafted from source and tests, verified by hand against the running product, and every suspected defect lands in one triage file.
Adjacent skills: `featuring` inventories what a codebase does, by capability; this skill specifies how each capability behaves under every input and interruption. A `_FEATURES.md` is a good seed for this repo's structure, not a substitute for it.
`{skill}` below is this skill's directory.
| File | Use |
| --- | --- |
| `references/product-kinds.md` | Map the template onto a canvas editor, web app, CLI, chat product, or library/SDK. Read in Phase 0. |
| `references/README-template.md`, `goal-template.md`, `glossary-guide.md` | Skeletons for the three files that steer the build. `goal-template.md` carries the writing rules. |
| `references/document-template.md` | The eight-section skeleton every feature document follows. |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/describing-products@sha256:a9f1afcb8a70256cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.0, 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_wd26eed2aso3bwpa)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 14, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.2.0 latest | 2026-10-14 | 4097309 | 15,150 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-10-14 | 01f9a03 | 14,249 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 (15150 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wd26eed2aso3bwpa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/describing-products GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a9f1afcb8a70256c95679a46c233989086facac209267862f06fb5add13bbc4c
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.
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