Product Brief

This is a Hermes-native product-brief workflow skill.

Why This Exists

product-brief turns product evidence into a reviewable PRD and prioritization frame before delivery planning without treating a draft as an accepted roadmap commitment.

Do Not Use When

• The input is unprocessed feedback, bug reports, or feature asks that first need clustering and evidence boundaries; use feedback-triage.
• The user needs a company or product strategy decision across high-level options rather than a requirements or roadmap artifact; use strategy-brief.
• The request is an accepted, code-ready change with repository constraints and verification needs; use ralplan or ultrawork rather than recreating a PRD.
• The user asks to create or update Jira, Linear, Aha!, or a roadmap system directly; use connector-operator with explicit target, approval, and observed evidence.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: Create a PRD and prioritization options for reducing first-time user drop-off in onboarding.
• Expected behavior: Prepare the product problem, user and metric brief, PRD, roadmap options, tradeoffs, and downstream prerequisites.
• Why: The request needs a decision-ready requirements and prioritization artifact before delivery planning.

Bad example:

• Prompt: Implement the accepted onboarding PRD and open a PR.
• Expected behavior: Route to ultrawork or ralplan, not product-brief.
• Why: Accepted implementation work should move into planning or delivery rather than recreate a PRD.

Completion Checklist

• The plan names goals, non-goals, assumptions, acceptance criteria, and verification shape.
• Draft recommendations, accepted decisions, and executor handoffs are separate states.
• Rejected options or unresolved tradeoffs are recorded before handoff.

Recovery Notes

• If acceptance criteria or verification are missing, route back to clarification before handoff.
• If assumptions materially affect the plan, keep them visible and avoid treating the plan as accepted.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Intent -> plan (oh-my-hermes, meta-router, deep-interview, context, plan, ralplan, codebase-onboarding, codegraph-refresh, +4 more) - clarify, plan, ship, or loop goals.
• If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
• Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.

Use When

Use when a product owner needs a problem frame, user/outcome definition, PRD, prioritization/roadmap options, dependencies, acceptance shape, and decision record before delivery planning.

Strong routing signals: product requirements document, PRD, roadmap prioritization, 제품 요구사항 문서, 제품 기획서, 로드맵 우선순위

Catalog Metadata

Category: planning Phase: product-brief Hermes role: planner Quality tier: planning-gated Reasoning demand: standard

Quality bar:

• Name problem, user, metric, goals, non-goals, requirements, dependencies, risks, and acceptance shape.
• Preserve decision owner and downstream prerequisite boundaries.

Handoff policy:

Keep domain framing, clarification, source/evidence synthesis, draft outputs, and next-work routing in Hermes. A prepared brief, review, reply, or plan is not an external action, approval, filing, send, publish, data mutation, implementation, review, CI, or merge claim. Prepare a connector, file, coding, or human-review handoff only when the user explicitly accepts that next step; report it only from observed evidence. A PRD or roadmap is prepared planning, not stakeholder acceptance, Jira or Linear mutation, implementation, test evidence, delivery, or a market commitment.

Required inputs:

• product evidence
• problem and user
• goal and non-goals
• decision owner

Expert clarification questions:

• product evidence
• English: What product evidence should anchor this brief?
• Korean: 이 브리프의 근거가 될 제품 증거는 무엇인가요?

Expected outputs:

• problem, user, evidence, metric, goal, and non-goal brief
• PRD with requirements, open questions, risks, dependencies, and acceptance shape
• prioritization/roadmap options with tradeoffs and decision owner
• explicit downstream route to ralplan, strategy-brief, or ultrawork only when its prerequisite is satisfied

Artifact expectations:

• prepared product brief or PRD when a wrapper captures it

Safety rules:

• Separate product evidence, assumptions, prioritization options, and stakeholder acceptance.
• Do not claim roadmap-system mutation, implementation, test evidence, delivery, or market commitment.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: planning.

sh
omh runtime record --skill product-brief --harness planning --status started

Record observed delegation results; otherwise return not_available or not_observed. Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

• Treat wrapper memory/context summaries as advisory local context, not proof of opaque Hermes memory reads or changes.

Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion.

Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.

Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.