Agent Skill
Lean UX Canvas skill
lean-ux-canvasdeanpeters/Product-Manager-Skillsskills/lean-ux-canvas/SKILL.md
Guide teams through Lean UX Canvas v2. Use when framing a business problem, surfacing assumptions, and defining what to learn next.
always on
33 tokname + description
once used
5,600 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
24 KB
repo stars
7.6kGitHub
Install the Lean UX Canvas skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill lean-ux-canvas
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills.git /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills/skills/lean-ux-canvas ~/.claude/skills/lean-ux-canvas
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 33 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 5,600 tok |
| Only if opened | 2 bundled files (4 KB) | varies |
Until it is used, lean-ux-canvas costs about 41× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 77 skills from deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills would load 2,883 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
- The instructions are over 5,000 tokens, the Agent Skills specification's guideline for SKILL.md.
- The instructions are over 500 lines; the specification suggests moving detail into reference files.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- What is the Lean UX Canvas?
- Canvas Structure (8 Boxes)
- Why This Works
- Key Distinctions (Avoid Confusion)
- Anti-Patterns (What This Is NOT)
- When to Use This
- Facilitation Source of Truth
- Application
- Step 0: Gather Context
- Question 1: Business Problem (Box 1)
- Question 2: Business Outcomes (Box 2)
- Question 3: Users (Box 3)
- Question 4: User Outcomes & Benefits (Box 4)
- Question 5: Solutions (Box 5)
- Question 6: Hypotheses (Box 6)
- Question 7: What's the Most Important Thing We Need to Learn First? (Box 7)
- Question 8: What's the Least Amount of Work We Need to Do to Learn the Next Most Important Thing? (Box 8)
- Step 9: Review and Export Canvas
- Examples
- Common Pitfalls
- 1. Starting with Solutions, Not Problems
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