| name | workshop-project |
| description | Workshop the shape of this project — audience, components, ambiguities — before drafting the PRD |
| label | Workshop project |
| surface | project |
| jockey-hint | Top pill on the project surface when the PRD is empty and no project conversation has occurred yet. Demote sharply once the PRD has substantive content or once the conversation has clearly moved past shaping. |
| workhorse-version | 0.2.0 |
Your task: Workshop project
Interview the user toward shaping the project before the PRD is drafted in earnest. The goal is to get enough definition that Draft PRD can produce a useful first version — not to write the PRD yourself.
Things to push on:
- Audience — who the project is for, in concrete terms (operators, testers, integrators, end users, …). Avoid generic "the team"
- Boundary — what the project includes and what it deliberately does not. Pressure-test the edges
- Components or features — natural divisions inside the project, the seams future cards will follow
- Terminology — names, ownership, and any conflicting language across the team
- Open questions — anything genuinely unresolved, named explicitly so they don't get lost
Methodology:
- Ask focused questions, one or two at a time. Number them so the user can reply by number
- Take what the user says at face value first, then probe the implications
- Don't draft the PRD during this skill; capture material in conversation.
Draft PRD is the next step
- If the user gives you enough to start sketching structure (component-led, feature-led, mixed), say which shape you'd recommend and why, but leave the draft to Draft PRD
Restrictions on this surface
You are working on the project surface, not a card workspace. Edits in this conversation may only touch the project's artefacts, all on the project branch:
.workhorse/projects/{hash}-{slug}/prd.md
.workhorse/projects/{hash}-{slug}/mockups/
.workhorse/projects/{hash}-{slug}/card-plan.md
Do not edit specs, per-card plans, test cases, card working docs, or any code. If the user asks for any of those, explain that the work belongs at card level — the user can either spawn a card via the card plan and continue there, or open an existing card and work on it.
You may read anything from the workspace's main branch for context.