Product Init — Data skill for Claude Code

product-init

**AI sets the goal. product-init makes sure you're shooting at the right one.**

"Vibe-coding without a product spec isn't moving fast. It's building the wrong thing at the speed of AI."

Codex ships `/goal`. Cursor ships `/build`. Every AI tool now moves faster. 43% of startups still die from the same cause: wrong product.

product-init is the gate before the gate — 9 hard stops between your idea and your deploy, each blocked by a Python audit script with real pass/fail criteria. CRITICAL findings stop the pipeline. No `--skip` flag.

Works on Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenClaw/Hermes.

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How it works

/product-init "build an HR assessment tool"

Three questions. AI drafts the rest. 9 gates run in sequence.

Gate 1  Discovery Constitution   JTBD + four-risk model
Gate 2  Statement of Work        Shape Up appetite + PR-FAQ
Gate 3  Design                   Every screen maps to a job from Gate 1
Gate 4  Build                    Commit-to-AC, no orphan TODOs
Gate 5  QA                       Unit + integration + E2E — all green
Gate 6  UAT                      Real human signs off on real URL
Gate 7  Deploy                   HTTP 200 to prod, smoke job, rollback drill
Gate 8  Handoff                  ADRs + runbook + DEBT.md — a contract, not a README
Gate 9  Warranty                 72h monitoring window: error rate, latency, uptime

Gate 1 is the one that matters most. It asks: *who gets fired if this fails, what job are they hiring it for, and what does failure look like in production?* That's the goal you're shooting at. Everything else is build speed.

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Install

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mturac/product-init/main/install.sh | bash

That's it. The script detects which AI tools you have installed (Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenClaw) and installs there automatically. Works on all of them at once if you have multiple.

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Usage

# Bootstrap a new project
python3 scripts/orchest