product-management

A product management plugin primarily designed for Cowork, Anthropic's agentic desktop application — though it also works in Claude Code. Covers the full PM workflow: writing feature specs, managing roadmaps, communicating with stakeholders, synthesizing user research, analyzing competitors, and tracking product metrics.

Installation

claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
claude plugin install product-management@knowledge-work-plugins

What It Does

This plugin gives you an AI-powered product management partner that can help with:

• Feature Specs & PRDs — Generate structured product requirements documents from a problem statement or feature idea. Includes user stories, requirements prioritization, success metrics, and scope management.
• Roadmap Planning — Create, update, and reprioritize your product roadmap. Supports Now/Next/Later, quarterly themes, and OKR-aligned formats with dependency mapping.
• Stakeholder Updates — Generate status updates tailored to your audience (executives, engineering, customers). Pulls context from connected tools to save you the weekly update grind.
• User Research Synthesis — Turn interview notes, survey data, and support tickets into structured insights. Identifies themes, builds personas, and surfaces opportunity areas with supporting evidence.
• Competitive Analysis — Research competitors and generate briefs with feature comparisons, positioning analysis, and strategic implications.
• Metrics Review — Analyze product metrics, identify trends, compare against targets, and surface actionable insights.
• Product Brainstorming — Explore problem spaces, generate ideas, and stress-test product thinking with a sharp sparring partner. Supports divergent ideation, assumption testing, and strategy exploration using frameworks like How Might We, Jobs-to-be-Done, First Principles, and Opportunity Solution Trees.

Commands

Command	What It Does
/write-spec	Write a feature spec or PRD from a problem statement
/roadmap-update	Update, create, or reprioritize your roadmap
/stakeholder-update	Generate a stakeholder update (weekly, monthly, launch)
/synthesize-research	Synthesize user research from interviews, surveys, and tickets
/competitive-brief	Create a competitive analysis brief
/metrics-review	Review and analyze product metrics
/brainstorm	Brainstorm a product idea, problem space, or strategic question with a thinking partner

Skills

Skill	What It Covers
feature-spec	PRD structure, user stories, requirements categorization, acceptance criteria
roadmap-management	Prioritization frameworks (RICE, MoSCoW), roadmap formats, dependency mapping
stakeholder-comms	Update templates by audience, risk communication, decision documentation
user-research-synthesis	Thematic analysis, affinity mapping, persona development, opportunity sizing
competitive-analysis	Feature comparison matrices, positioning analysis, win/loss analysis
metrics-tracking	Product metrics hierarchy, goal setting (OKRs), dashboard design, review cadences
product-brainstorming	Brainstorming modes (problem exploration, solution ideation, assumption testing, strategy), PM frameworks, session structure, thinking partner behaviors

Example Workflows

Writing a PRD

You: /write-spec
Claude: What feature or problem are you speccing out?
You: We need to add SSO support for enterprise customers
Claude: [Asks about target users, constraints, success metrics]
Claude: [Generates full PRD with problem statement, user stories, requirements, success metrics, open questions]

Preparing a Stakeholder Update

You: /stakeholder-update
Claude: What type of update? (weekly, monthly, launch, ad-hoc)
You: Weekly update for the exec team
Claude: [Pulls context from project management tool, chat, and docs]
Claude: [Generates executive summary with progress, decisions, risks, and next milestones]

Synthesizing User Research

You: /synthesize-research
Claude: What research do you want to synthesize? You can paste interview notes, upload files, or I can pull from connected sources.
You: [Pastes 8 interview transcripts]
Claude: [Identifies themes, patterns, and insights across interviews]
Claude: [Generates synthesis with key findings, personas, opportunity areas, and evidence]

Brainstorming a Product Idea

You: /brainstorm Should we add AI-powered search to our product?
Claude: Before we jump to AI search — what problem are your users hitting with search today?
You: They can't find things. Support tickets about "can't find X" are our #2 category.
Claude: That's a discovery problem, not necessarily a search technology problem. Let me push on this...
Claude: [Explores whether the issue is search quality, information architecture, or content discoverability]
Claude: [Generates 5 distinct approaches ranging from better taxonomy to AI search to guided navigation]
Claude: [Challenges assumptions, suggests cheapest experiment to test the riskiest one]

Competitive Analysis

You: /competitive-brief
Claude: Which competitor(s) or feature area do you want to analyze?
You: Compare our onboarding flow to [competitor A] and [competitor B]
Claude: [Researches competitor onboarding approaches]
Claude: [Generates brief with feature comparison, strengths/weaknesses, and strategic implications]

Data Sources

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Connect your project management and communication tools for the best experience. Without them, provide context manually.

Included MCP connections:

• Chat (Slack) for team context and stakeholder threads
• Project tracker (Linear, Asana, monday.com, ClickUp, Atlassian) for roadmap integration, ticket context, and status tracking
• Knowledge base (Notion) for existing specs, research, and meeting notes
• Design (Figma) for design context and handoff
• Product analytics (Amplitude, Pendo) for usage data, metrics, and behavioral analysis
• User feedback (Intercom) for support tickets, feature requests, and user conversations
• Meeting transcription (Fireflies) for meeting notes and discussion context

Additional options:

• See CONNECTORS.md for alternative tools in each category