deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills

user-story

Create user stories with Mike Cohn format and Gherkin acceptance criteria. Use when turning user needs into development-ready work with clear outcomes and testable conditions.

4.0K installs 7.5K stars

Before you install

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Install

npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills@user-story

Runs in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.

Install for your agent

npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills@user-story --agent claude-code -y
Project install writes to
.claude/skills/user-story
Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/user-story

Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /user-story.

What it does

Purpose Create clear, concise user stories that combine Mike Cohn's user story format with Gherkin-style acceptance criteria. Use this to translate user needs into actionable development work that focuses on outcomes, ensures shared understanding between product and engineering, and provides testable success criteria. This is not a feature spec—it's a conversation starter that captures who benefits, what they're trying to do, why it matters, and how you'll know it works. Input Works best with: The feature or user need the story captures. Also useful: The user role, the outcome they want, and…

Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.

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