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`socratic-questioning` skill for `pm-skills` marketplace.

Technical Positioning
Enhancing the `pm-skills` marketplace with a 'socratic-questioning' skill to address the critical failure mode of 'solving the wrong problem confidently' by slowing down and challenging assumptions during early product discovery.
SaaS Insight & Market Implications
This proposal identifies a crucial gap in the `pm-skills` marketplace: the absence of a 'socratic-questioning' skill. The core pain point articulated is the prevalent 'failure mode' of PMs and AI assistants 'solving the wrong problem confidently.' The proposed skill aims to counter the tendency of existing tools to merely accelerate execution, instead advocating for a structured slowdown to surface hidden assumptions and challenge problem framing during early discovery. This directly addresses a high-value B2B need for strategic clarity and risk mitigation before significant development investment. Integrating such a skill would significantly mature the `pm-skills` offering, moving it beyond pure efficiency to intelligent, problem-centric product development.
Proprietary Technical Taxonomy
socratic-questioning skill pm-skills marketplace PM tools AI assistants problem framing hidden assumptions early discovery /discover

Raw Developer Origin & Technical Request

Source Icon GitHub Issue Mar 10, 2026
Repo: phuryn/pm-skills
New skill proposal: socratic-questioning

Hi Pawel,

I've been following your newsletter and exploring the marketplace. I noticed one gap: there's no skill for asking better questions before jumping to solutions.

Most PM tools, including the ones here, help you move faster: brainstorm more ideas, map assumptions, write PRDs. That's valuable. But the failure mode I keep seeing is PMs (and AI assistants) solving the wrong problem confidently.

Socratic questioning is a structured way to slow down at the right moment. It surfaces hidden assumptions, challenges problem framing, and helps someone arrive at clarity they actually own. It's particularly useful in early discovery, before /discover kicks in.

Proposed skill: socratic-questioning

Suggested plugin: pm-product-discovery, fits naturally before identify-assumptions and interview-script

I built a working SKILL.md using Claude's skill-creator skill. Fair disclosure: the current version is fairly generic and not PM-specific. I'd love your input on how to adapt it to fit the marketplace's style and scope before submitting a PR.

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Adjacent Repository Pain Points

Other highly discussed features and pain points extracted from phuryn/pm-skills.

Extracted Positioning
Integration of `pm-skills` marketplace into Claude Desktop via the Cowork plugin UI.
Ensuring seamless installation and access to `pm-skills` plugins within the Claude Desktop environment, facilitating user adoption and expanding the utility of both platforms.
Extracted Positioning
`pm-governance` plugin for decision governance within the `pm-skills` ecosystem.
Enhancing the `pm-skills` marketplace with a strategic 'decision governance layer' to prevent misdirected development, shifting from pure execution to intelligent pausing and decision-making.
Extracted Positioning
Collaboration between `pm-skills` (PM frameworks) and `PM AI Partner` (agent interaction modes).
Expanding the `pm-skills` ecosystem through complementary integration with `PM AI Partner` to offer a more comprehensive, multi-faceted AI-driven product management solution, combining structured frameworks with dynamic AI interaction modes.
Extracted Positioning
Missing "Personal" tab in Claude Desktop's plugin marketplace, preventing custom marketplace integration
Open, extensible agent skills marketplace for Claude Desktop

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