86 product management skills distilled from Lenny's Podcast interviews with world-class product leaders. Built for PMs, founders, and product teams who want Claude to help with real product work.

"The best product advice from Shreyas Doshi, Marty Cagan, Elena Verna, and 90+ more leaders — available in your terminal."

Curated by Refound AI from 100+ podcast episodes featuring guests like Shreyas Doshi, Marty Cagan, Elena Verna, Christina Wodtke, and more.

Contributions welcome! Found a way to improve a skill or have a new one to add? Open a PR.

Skills are markdown files that give AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows for specific tasks. When you add these to your project, Claude Code can recognize when you're working on a product task and apply the right frameworks and best practices from experienced product leaders.

Use npx skills to install skills directly:

# Install all skills
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills

# Install specific skills
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill evaluating-candidates writing-prds

# List available skills
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --list

This automatically installs to your .claude/skills/ directory.

Clone the repo and copy skills to your project:

git clone https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills.git
cp -r lenny-skills/skills/* .claude/skills/

Add as a submodule for easy updates:

git submodule add https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills.git .claude/lenny-skills

Then reference skills from .claude/lenny-skills/skills/.

1. Fork this repository
2. Customize skills for your specific needs
3. Clone your fork into your projects

Once installed, just ask Claude Code to help with product tasks:

"Help me evaluate this PM candidate"
→ Uses evaluating-candidates skill

"I need to write a PRD for our new feature"
→ Uses writing-prds skill

"How do I get stakeholder buy-in for this project?"
→ Uses stakeholder-alignment skill

"We're not shipping fast enough"
→ Uses shipping-products skill

You can also invoke skills directly:

/evaluating-candidates
/writing-prds
/stakeholder-alignment

• evaluating-candidates - Make better hiring decisions
• conducting-interviews - Run effective interviews
• writing-job-descriptions - Write compelling job posts
• onboarding-new-hires - Onboard new team members
• building-team-culture - Build strong team culture
• coaching-pms - Develop and coach PMs

• conducting-user-interviews - Run better discovery conversations
• analyzing-user-feedback - Synthesize customer feedback
• usability-testing - Conduct effective usability tests
• designing-surveys - Design effective surveys
• measuring-product-market-fit - Assess and achieve PMF

• defining-product-vision - Create compelling visions
• prioritizing-roadmap - Prioritize effectively
• setting-okrs-goals - Set effective OKRs
• writing-prds - Write effective PRDs
• working-backwards - Apply Amazon's methodology
• problem-definition - Define problems clearly

• shipping-products - Ship faster with higher quality
• managing-timelines - Set and hit deadlines
• scoping-cutting - Scope and cut features
• managing-tech-debt - Manage tech debt strategically
• post-mortems-retrospectives - Run effective retros

• stakeholder-alignment - Get buy-in
• managing-up - Work with your manager
• having-difficult-conversations - Navigate tough feedback
• running-effective-meetings - Run better meetings
• running-effective-1-1s - Run effective 1:1s
• giving-presentations - Present compellingly

• designing-growth-loops - Design growth loops
• retention-engagement - Improve retention
• pricing-strategy - Design pricing
• user-onboarding - Design product onboarding

• founder-sales - Close first customers
• enterprise-sales - Navigate enterprise deals
• launch-marketing - Plan product launches
• positioning-messaging - Craft positioning

• building-a-promotion-case - Get promoted
• career-transitions - Navigate career changes
• finding-mentors-sponsors - Build mentorship relationships
• managing-imposter-syndrome - Work through self-doubt
• negotiating-offers - Negotiate compensation

• building-with-llms - Build AI applications
• ai-product-strategy - Define AI strategy
• ai-evals - Create AI evaluations
• vibe-coding - Build with AI coding tools

Found a way to improve a skill? Have a new skill to suggest? PRs and issues welcome!

1. Create a folder in skills/ with your skill name (kebab-case)
2. Add a SKILL.md with frontmatter and content
3. Optionally add a references/ folder with source material
4. Update the README skill table
5. Open a PR

• Fix errors or outdated information
• Add missing frameworks or insights
• Improve actionability and specificity
• Add better diagnostic questions

See individual skill files for the expected format.

These skills were created by analyzing 100+ episodes of Lenny's Podcast and extracting actionable frameworks from guests including:

• Shreyas Doshi (Twitter, Stripe)
• Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
• Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro)
• Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
• Dylan Field (Figma)
• And 90+ more product leaders

Built by Refound AI - helping companies transform with AI.

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