---
title: "Product Brainstorming Skill"
type: skill
id: "knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/product-brainstorming"
category: "Product"
publisher: "Anthropic"
license: "Apache-2.0"
source: "https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/d900840"
canonical: "https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/product-brainstorming"
open_in_pho: "https://pho.chat/customize?item=knowledge-work-plugins%2Fproduct-management%2Fproduct-brainstorming&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library"
---

# Product Brainstorming Skill

Brainstorm product ideas, explore problem spaces, and challenge assumptions as a thinking partner. Use when exploring a new opportunity, generating solutions to a product problem, stress-testing an idea, or when a PM needs to think out loud with a sharp sparring partner before converging on a direction.

Source: Anthropic (Apache 2.0), copied at a pinned commit. Free to use. Part of the Phở Skills library (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills).
Skill set: Product management (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management.md).

## What it covers
- Brainstorming Modes
  - Problem Exploration
  - Solution Ideation
  - Assumption Testing
  - Strategy Exploration
- Brainstorming Frameworks
  - How Might We (HMW)
  - Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD)
  - Opportunity Solution Trees
  - First Principles Decomposition
  - SCAMPER
  - OODA Loop (Observe–Orient–Decide–Act)
  - Reverse Brainstorming
- Session Structure
  - 1. Frame
  - 2. Diverge
  - 3. Provoke
  - 4. Converge
  - 5. Capture
- Being a Good Thinking Partner

## Other skills in this set
- [Competitive Brief](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/competitive-brief.md): Create a competitive analysis brief for one or more competitors or a feature area. Use when informing product strategy or feature prioritization, building sales battle cards, prepping board or…
- [Metrics Review](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/metrics-review.md): Review and analyze product metrics with trend analysis and actionable insights. Use when running a weekly, monthly, or quarterly metrics review, investigating a sudden spike or drop, comparing…
- [Roadmap Update](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/roadmap-update.md): Update, create, or reprioritize your product roadmap. Use when adding a new initiative and deciding what moves to make room, shifting priorities after new information comes in, moving timelines due…
- [Sprint planning](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/sprint-planning.md): Plan a sprint — scope work, estimate capacity, set goals, and draft a sprint plan. Use when kicking off a new sprint, sizing a backlog against team availability (accounting for PTO and meetings)…
- [Stakeholder Update](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/stakeholder-update.md): Generate a stakeholder update tailored to audience and cadence. Use when writing a weekly or monthly status for leadership, announcing a launch, escalating a risk or blocker, or translating the same…
- [Synthesize Research](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/synthesize-research.md): Synthesize user research from interviews, surveys, and feedback into structured insights. Use when you have a pile of interview notes, survey responses, or support tickets to make sense of, need to…
- [Write Spec](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/write-spec.md): Write a feature spec or PRD from a problem statement or feature idea. Use when turning a vague idea or user request into a structured document, scoping a feature with goals and non-goals, defining…

## Use it
- In Phở: open https://pho.chat/customize?item=knowledge-work-plugins%2Fproduct-management%2Fproduct-brainstorming&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library and press Try, or add it so Phở loads it whenever a request matches. Phở works with your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others).
- Full instructions (original SKILL.md, unchanged): https://labs.pho.chat/skills/raw/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/skills/product-brainstorming/SKILL.md
- Original files: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/d900840 (Apache 2.0).
- Full machine-readable index: https://labs.pho.chat/skills.json