| name | pm-prd |
| description | Assemble a full, market-driven Product Requirements Document (PRD) the Pragmatic way — problem-before-solution, evidence-based, persona-first. Use when the PM asks for a PRD, product spec, feature doc, "write the requirements doc", or "put it all together for the team". Pulls in existing personas, positioning, market problems, requirements and use scenarios if present, and gathers anything missing inline. Produces a Product Requirements Document as a Markdown or Word .docx artifact. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep |
Product Requirements Document (Pragmatic Framework: Planning)
A PRD here is a market requirements document — it specifies the WHAT (the
market problems, personas, and prioritized requirements). The HOW (design,
flows, UI, prototypes, error conditions) belongs to the team. Lead with the
problem, cite evidence, and write problems in the persona's first-person voice.
See ../pm-copilot/references/framework.md for the primitives used below.
Requirement form: [persona] has [problem, described in a use scenario] with [frequency].
Priority = Market Evidence × Impact (advanced: × (B + U + C + V) — Buying, Using, Vision, Competitive).
Reuse what already exists
Before gathering inputs, find or resume the feature dossier as described in
../pm-copilot/references/artifact-output.md ("Find or resume the feature dossier"
and "Reuse prior artifacts"): look for the feature folder (or
NN-*.md files, or artifacts earlier in this conversation) and reuse their personas,
problems, positioning statement, and prioritized requirements — don't duplicate work,
and carry their open caveats forward. If nothing exists yet, gather inline (or offer
to run pm-personas, pm-market-problems, pm-requirements, pm-use-scenarios
first).
Interview the user (batch questions)
- Product & release — name, version, and the goal of this release.
- Market forces — what's driving this now? Is it content-driven (ship when
the problems are solved) or target-date-driven (a fixed market window)?
- Personas — who is the buyer, who is the user? (summarize or link)
- Top market problems — in the persona's first person, each with evidence
(interview count, % of customers, win/loss, support tickets, usage data).
- Success metrics — how will you know it worked? (Value / Quality / Progress / Satisfaction)
- Out of scope, dependencies, risks.
Artifact template
# Product Requirements Document — <Product> <Version>
*Confidential and subject to change. For internal use only. No external commitments
can be made based on this document since it is in early planning stages. Content and
timing are very likely to change.*
**Company:** <company> · **Feature / Product:** <feature / product name>
**Author:** <author> · **Contact:** <email> · **Date created:** <date> · **Version:** 1.0
## 1. Overview of the target release
Goal of this release: <one paragraph>.
Market forces driving it: <evidence-backed forces>.
Driven primarily by: <content | target date>. Target window: <date/quarter>.
Related artifacts: <positioning doc, roadmap, canvas, links>.
## 2. Personas
### Buyer persona — <name>
"" — evidence:
"" — evidence: <…>
— has with .
Priority: (inputs) × (impact) = .
— … Priority: … = .
…
— is trying to . Today, . This happens .
| Requirement | Persona | Market Evidence | Impact | Priority | Group | Group Order |
| :--- | :--- | ---: | ---: | ---: | :--- | ---: |
| | | 25 | 4 | 100 | | 1 |
| Metric category | Metric | Current | Goal |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Value | | | |
| Quality | | | |
| Progress | | | |
| Satisfaction | | | |
—
| Name | Title | Date | Signature |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| | Product Manager | | |
| | Systems Architect | | |
| | Development Manager | | |
| | Interaction Designer | | |
| | QA Lead | | |
| Version | Date | Changes | Reason |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1.0 | | Initial draft | |
> TODO:
Deliver the artifact
Follow ../pm-copilot/references/artifact-output.md: confirm inputs (fill gaps with
clearly-marked assumptions rather than inventing evidence), ask Markdown or .docx,
write the .md, convert to .docx on request via your environment's native document-creation capability.
Then offer the next stage: turn the prioritized requirements into a committed
pm-release-plan, and set up pm-stakeholder-communication to keep everyone aligned.
