product-shaping

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Use this skill to shape product or engineering work before committing time to it: set appetites instead of estimates, narrow raw ideas into bounded problems, sketch solutions at the right level of abstraction, de-risk rabbit holes, write pitches, bet with capped downside (circuit breaker), and govern builds with discovered scopes and scope hammering. Adapted from Basecamp's Shape Up and extended for human+AI-agent teams. Use when a raw idea, feature request, or "redesign X" grab-bag needs to become a bounded project before anyone builds; when planning how much work an idea is worth; or when delegated agent builds need budgets, kill criteria, and non-convergence rules. Do not use for discovering whether a problem is real (use product-discovery), for portfolio-level sequencing across quarters (product-roadmapping-and-portfolio), for formal specification after the bet is placed (spec-driven-development), or for task-level prioritization frameworks like RICE (product-methodology).