The "problem-first" skill takes a team's proposed solution, decompresses it into the underlying problem, and outputs eight structured sections including assumption challenges with risk assessments and three alternative framings.

It runs in AI tools like Claude Code or Cursor in roughly 90 seconds, producing sections a human PM under time pressure typically skips. Used in reverse as a triage filter, it checks each idea against an evidence status field, which the author reports killed 90% of a 50-idea backlog in one pass.