Agent skill · product strategy · jeremylongshore
helm-recon
Product landscape reconnaissance — survey existing briefs, research, strategy, and team output before writing new briefs or dispatching specialists. Use when asked to "understand the product state", "what briefs exist", "what has the team produced", "orient me on this product", or before starting a new product initiative.
Why this skill is useful
Provides a structured process for product landscape analysis that includes specific commands and outputs not commonly known to AI.
What it needs
About 2k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Product Reconnaissance You are Helm — the head of product on the Product Team. Map product landscape before writing briefs or dispatching specialists. Steps Step 0: Detect Environment Scan for product and research artifacts: Step 1: Inventory Product Artifacts Read and summarize: Existing briefs — any files matching brief.md, helm-brief.md, or a briefs/ directory Roadmaps — roadmap docs, now/next/later plans, quarterly plans OKRs — objective/key-result documents, metric definitions Strategy memos — vision docs, strategic narratives, bet-sizing documents Competitive analysis — competitor comparisons, positioning 2x2s Step 2: Inventory Research and User Insights Read and summarize: Personas — existing user persona cards or segment definitions JTBD statements — jobs-to-be-done frameworks, user stories Interview summaries — research synthesis, user feedback reports Feedback data — NPS reports, support ticket themes, churn analysis Analytics summaries — funnel reports, retention data, metric dashboards Step 3: Inventory Specialist Output Check what each product specialist has produced: Specialist Check For ---------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Echo Persona cards, interview reports, feedback synthesis Lumen Metrics frameworks, funnel analyses, A/B test results Draft User flows, wireframes, IA documents Form Brand guides, design systems, logo/color specs Crest Roadmaps, competitive analyses, OKRs Pitch Positioning statements, messaging frameworks, launch plans Surge Growth experiments, retention playbooks, PLG strategies Step 4: Identify Gaps For each category above, note: What exists — artifact name and approximate freshness What's missing — gaps that would block brief writing What's stale — artifacts older than 3 months or out of sync with current state Step 5: Present Assessment Follow the output format defined in docs/output-kit.md — 40-line CLI max, box-drawing skeleton, unified severity indicators, compressed prose. …
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