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Product Lifecycle Plays skill

product-lifecycle-playsdeanpeters/Product-Manager-Skillsskills/product-lifecycle-plays/SKILL.md

Map a product's lifecycle stage and choose between extension, replacement, and retirement plays. Use when a product is maturing or declining and the next move isn't obvious.

7.6k

always on

39 tokname + description

once used

3,496 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

320 KB

repo stars

7.6kGitHub

Install the Product Lifecycle Plays skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill product-lifecycle-plays

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/product-lifecycle-plays ~/.claude/skills/product-lifecycle-plays

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.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description39 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions3,496 tok
Only if opened3 bundled files (20 KB)varies

Until it is used, product-lifecycle-plays costs about 35× 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

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Product Lifecycle Plays
  • Purpose
  • Input
  • Key Concepts
  • The Product Life Cycle
  • The Strategy Grid
  • The Transition Questions
  • The Three Plays
  • Why Replacement Is the Expensive Play
  • The Seven Replacement Hazards
  • The Risk Register
  • Anti-Patterns (what this is NOT)
  • Application
  • Step 1: Diagnose the stage
  • Step 2: Identify what's driving the pressure
  • Step 3: Test the extension play first
  • Step 4: If replacing, build the risk register before committing
  • Step 5: If retiring, hand off
  • Step 6: Run it across the line
  • Final Step: Offer what comes next
  • Examples
  • Common Pitfalls
  • Pitfall 1: Arguing the Play Before the Diagnosis
  • Pitfall 2: Skipping Extension Because It's Boring

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