Assumption mapper

01What is it?
Exposes hidden risks by identifying and ranking assumptions across desirability, feasibility, and viability categories. Use when evaluating new products or features to surface the highest-risk assumption to test first. The value is a focused slice of assumption mapper judgment, useful when several similar skills cover the same ground.
02Inputs
Context the agent needs: your goals, audience, constraints, and any source material the skill asks for.
03Output
A ready-to-use result: the analysis, copy, or recommendations the agent produces.
Install-only

Install as a package

Installs this one skill package for your coding agent, including any supporting files that skill ships with — not every skill in the repository. Read the tutorial.

Terminal
$ npx skills add pratikshadake/claude-product-management-skills --skill assumption-mapper

Skill instructions

The instruction file for this skill. The skill also includes other files you need to install to use it.

SKILL.md

Assumption Mapper

Purpose

Expose hidden risks by identifying and ranking assumptions.

Categories

  • Desirability (users want it)
  • Feasibility (can we build it)
  • Viability (business works)

Steps

  1. List assumptions in each category.
  2. Rate risk and uncertainty.
  3. Identify highest-risk assumption to test first.

Output

Key Assumptions

Highest-Risk Assumption

Validation Method

Decision Before Building

References

See worked example (references/example.md) for a complete scenario.


Supporting file: references/example.md

Example: Assumption Mapping — AI Meeting Notes

Key Assumptions

Desirability

Founders want automatic summaries.

Feasibility

Speech-to-text accuracy is sufficient.

Viability

Users will pay for automation.

Highest-Risk Assumption

Users trust AI-generated summaries.

Validation Method

Prototype with 10 founders and collect feedback.

Decision Before Building

Validate trust before full product build.

How do I install Assumption mapper in Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex?

Run npx skills add pratikshadake/claude-product-management-skills --skill assumption-mapper in the project where you want it, then ask your agent for the skill by name. The --skill flag installs only Assumption mapper, not every skill in the repository.

Where does Assumption mapper come from and what license is it under?

Assumption mapper comes from the pratikshadake/claude-product-management-skills repository on GitHub. That repository has 30 GitHub stars. The skill is published under the MIT license.

Prefer plain text? Read the Assumption mapper guide as markdown.