Lenny's Product Skills for Claude Code

86 product management skills distilled from Lenny's Podcast interviews with world-class product leaders. Built for PMs, founders, and product teams who want Claude to help with real product work.

"The best product advice from Shreyas Doshi, Marty Cagan, Elena Verna, and 90+ more leaders — available in your terminal."

Curated by Refound AI from 100+ podcast episodes featuring guests like Shreyas Doshi, Marty Cagan, Elena Verna, Christina Wodtke, and more.

Contributions welcome! Found a way to improve a skill or have a new one to add? Open a PR.

What are Skills?

Skills are markdown files that give AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows for specific tasks. When you add these to your project, Claude Code can recognize when you're working on a product task and apply the right frameworks and best practices from experienced product leaders.

Available Skills

Skill	Description
ai-evals	Help users create and run AI evaluations for LLM products
ai-product-strategy	Help users define AI product strategy and decide where to apply AI
analyzing-user-feedback	Help users synthesize and act on customer feedback
behavioral-product-design	Help users apply behavioral science to product design
brand-storytelling	Help users craft compelling brand narratives
building-a-promotion-case	Help users prepare for promotion conversations
building-sales-team	Help users build and scale their sales organization
building-team-culture	Help users build and maintain strong team culture
building-with-llms	Help users build effective AI applications
career-transitions	Help users navigate career changes and pivots
coaching-pms	Help users develop and coach product managers
community-building	Help users build and grow product communities
competitive-analysis	Help users understand and respond to competition
conducting-interviews	Help users conduct effective hiring interviews
conducting-user-interviews	Help users run better customer and user interviews
content-marketing	Help users build content marketing strategies
cross-functional-collaboration	Help users work effectively across functions
defining-product-vision	Help users create compelling product visions
delegating-work	Help users delegate effectively
design-engineering	Help users build design engineering capabilities
design-systems	Help users build and scale design systems
designing-growth-loops	Help users design and optimize growth loops
designing-surveys	Help users design effective surveys
dogfooding	Help users implement effective dogfooding practices
energy-management	Help users manage energy for sustained performance
engineering-culture	Help users build strong engineering culture
enterprise-sales	Help users navigate enterprise sales
evaluating-candidates	Help users make better hiring decisions
evaluating-new-technology	Help users evaluate emerging technologies
evaluating-trade-offs	Help users make better decisions between competing options
finding-mentors-sponsors	Help users build relationships with mentors and sponsors
founder-sales	Help founders close their first customers
fundraising	Help founders raise capital and build investor relationships
giving-presentations	Help users create and deliver compelling presentations
having-difficult-conversations	Help users navigate tough feedback and conflict
launch-marketing	Help users plan and execute product launches
managing-imposter-syndrome	Help users work through feelings of inadequacy
managing-tech-debt	Help users manage technical debt strategically
managing-timelines	Help users set and hit realistic deadlines
managing-up	Help users work effectively with their manager
marketplace-liquidity	Help users build and manage marketplace liquidity
measuring-product-market-fit	Help users assess and achieve product-market fit
media-relations	Help users build relationships with journalists
negotiating-offers	Help users negotiate job offers and compensation
onboarding-new-hires	Help users onboard new team members effectively
organizational-design	Help users design effective organizational structures
organizational-transformation	Help users transform organizations toward modern practices
partnership-bd	Help users build strategic partnerships
personal-productivity	Help users manage their time and tasks
planning-under-uncertainty	Help users plan when outcomes are unpredictable
platform-infrastructure	Help users build and scale internal platforms
platform-strategy	Help users design platform business strategies
positioning-messaging	Help users craft product positioning and messaging
post-mortems-retrospectives	Help users run effective post-mortems and retrospectives
pricing-strategy	Help users design and optimize pricing strategies
prioritizing-roadmap	Help users prioritize product roadmaps
problem-definition	Help users define problems clearly before solutions
product-led-sales	Help users implement product-led sales motions
product-operations	Help users build and scale product operations
product-taste-intuition	Help users develop product taste and intuition
retention-engagement	Help users improve retention and engagement metrics
running-decision-processes	Help users run effective decision-making processes
running-design-reviews	Help users run effective design reviews
running-effective-1-1s	Help users run effective one-on-one meetings
running-effective-meetings	Help users run more effective meetings
running-offsites	Help users plan and run effective team offsites
sales-compensation	Help users design sales compensation plans
sales-qualification	Help users qualify sales leads effectively
scoping-cutting	Help users scope projects and cut features
setting-okrs-goals	Help users set effective OKRs and goals
shipping-products	Help users ship products faster with higher quality
stakeholder-alignment	Help users align stakeholders and get buy-in
startup-ideation	Help users generate and evaluate startup ideas
startup-pivoting	Help users decide when and how to pivot
systems-thinking	Help users think in systems and understand dynamics
team-rituals	Help users design effective team rituals
technical-roadmaps	Help users create technical roadmaps
usability-testing	Help users conduct effective usability testing
user-onboarding	Help users design effective product onboarding
vibe-coding	Help users build software using AI coding tools
working-backwards	Help users apply the working backwards methodology
writing-job-descriptions	Help users write effective job descriptions
writing-north-star-metrics	Help users define their North Star metric
writing-prds	Help users write effective PRDs
writing-specs-designs	Help users write effective specs and design documents
written-communication	Help users communicate more effectively in writing

Installation

Option 1: CLI Install (Recommended)

Use npx skills to install skills directly:

# Install all skills
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills

# Install specific skills
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill evaluating-candidates writing-prds

# List available skills
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --list

This automatically installs to your .claude/skills/ directory.

Option 2: Clone and Copy

Clone the repo and copy skills to your project:

git clone https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills.git
cp -r lenny-skills/skills/* .claude/skills/

Option 3: Git Submodule

Add as a submodule for easy updates:

git submodule add https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills.git .claude/lenny-skills

Then reference skills from .claude/lenny-skills/skills/.

Option 4: Fork and Customize

Fork this repository
Customize skills for your specific needs
Clone your fork into your projects

Usage

Once installed, just ask Claude Code to help with product tasks:

"Help me evaluate this PM candidate"
→ Uses evaluating-candidates skill

"I need to write a PRD for our new feature"
→ Uses writing-prds skill

"How do I get stakeholder buy-in for this project?"
→ Uses stakeholder-alignment skill

"We're not shipping fast enough"
→ Uses shipping-products skill

You can also invoke skills directly:

/evaluating-candidates
/writing-prds
/stakeholder-alignment

Skill Categories

Hiring & Team Building

evaluating-candidates - Make better hiring decisions
conducting-interviews - Run effective interviews
writing-job-descriptions - Write compelling job posts
onboarding-new-hires - Onboard new team members
building-team-culture - Build strong team culture
coaching-pms - Develop and coach PMs

User Research & Discovery

conducting-user-interviews - Run better discovery conversations
analyzing-user-feedback - Synthesize customer feedback
usability-testing - Conduct effective usability tests
designing-surveys - Design effective surveys
measuring-product-market-fit - Assess and achieve PMF

Strategy & Planning

defining-product-vision - Create compelling visions
prioritizing-roadmap - Prioritize effectively
setting-okrs-goals - Set effective OKRs
writing-prds - Write effective PRDs
working-backwards - Apply Amazon's methodology
problem-definition - Define problems clearly

Shipping & Execution

shipping-products - Ship faster with higher quality
managing-timelines - Set and hit deadlines
scoping-cutting - Scope and cut features
managing-tech-debt - Manage tech debt strategically
post-mortems-retrospectives - Run effective retros

Leadership & Alignment

stakeholder-alignment - Get buy-in
managing-up - Work with your manager
having-difficult-conversations - Navigate tough feedback
running-effective-meetings - Run better meetings
running-effective-1-1s - Run effective 1:1s
giving-presentations - Present compellingly

Growth & Monetization

designing-growth-loops - Design growth loops
retention-engagement - Improve retention
pricing-strategy - Design pricing
user-onboarding - Design product onboarding

Sales & Go-to-Market

founder-sales - Close first customers
enterprise-sales - Navigate enterprise deals
launch-marketing - Plan product launches
positioning-messaging - Craft positioning

Career Development

building-a-promotion-case - Get promoted
career-transitions - Navigate career changes
finding-mentors-sponsors - Build mentorship relationships
managing-imposter-syndrome - Work through self-doubt
negotiating-offers - Negotiate compensation

AI & Technology

building-with-llms - Build AI applications
ai-product-strategy - Define AI strategy
ai-evals - Create AI evaluations
vibe-coding - Build with AI coding tools

Contributing

Found a way to improve a skill? Have a new skill to suggest? PRs and issues welcome!

Adding a New Skill

Create a folder in skills/ with your skill name (kebab-case)
Add a SKILL.md with frontmatter and content
Optionally add a references/ folder with source material
Update the README skill table
Open a PR

Improving Existing Skills

Fix errors or outdated information
Add missing frameworks or insights
Improve actionability and specificity
Add better diagnostic questions

See individual skill files for the expected format.

About

These skills were created by analyzing 100+ episodes of Lenny's Podcast and extracting actionable frameworks from guests including:

Shreyas Doshi (Twitter, Stripe)
Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro)
Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
Dylan Field (Figma)
And 90+ more product leaders

Built by Refound AI - helping companies transform with AI.

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License

MIT - Use these however you want.