opportunity-solution-tree

An agent skill by phuryn, from phuryn/pm-skills. Tags: brainstorming, documents, market-analysis, product-strategy, strategy.

What it does

Build an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) to structure product discovery — map a desired outcome to opportunities, solutions, and experiments. Based on Teresa Torres' Continuous Discovery Habits. Use when structuring discovery work, mapping opportunities to solutions, or deciding what to build next.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill opportunity-solution-tree

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills
cp -r pm-skills/pm-product-discovery/skills/opportunity-solution-tree ~/.claude/skills/opportunity-solution-tree

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Source

Repository

phuryn/pm-skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

pm-product-discovery/skills/opportunity-solution-tree/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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