How-to · Product Management · By Product Management Skills by Pawel Huryn

How to use Product Strategy Canvas in your AI agent

Install and use the Product Strategy Canvas skill in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and Windsurf — with sample prompts.

What you'll get

This skill helps you create a complete product strategy using a proven 9-section framework. It walks you through defining your vision, target customers, pricing approach, value proposition, strategic trade-offs, key metrics, growth plan, required capabilities, and competitive moat. Perfect for PMs, founders, and product leaders who need to align their team around a clear strategic direction.

Step 1 — Get the skill source URL

The Product Strategy Canvas skill lives at:

Step 2 — Add it to your AI agent

Copy one of these prompts and paste it into your AI tool. The agent will fetch and install the skill for you.

Claude Code

Add the agent skill from https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-product-strategy/skills/product-strategy to my project.

Cursor

Install this agent skill: https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-product-strategy/skills/product-strategy

Codex

Add this skill to .codex/skills/: https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-product-strategy/skills/product-strategy

Gemini CLI

Add the skill at https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-product-strategy/skills/product-strategy to my .gemini/skills/ directory.

OpenCode

Install this agent skill from https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-product-strategy/skills/product-strategy

Windsurf

Add this skill: https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-product-strategy/skills/product-strategy

Step 3 — Try these prompts

Once the skill is installed, ask your AI things like:

  • Launching a new product and need a comprehensive strategic plan
  • Align stakeholders around product direction and priorities
  • Quarterly planning and want to refresh your product strategy
  • Articulate how your product will compete and win in the market

What this skill does

  • Generates a structured product strategy covering vision, market segments, value propositions, and growth
  • Defines your North Star metric and the one metric that matters this quarter
  • Identifies strategic trade-offs and what you'll deliberately NOT do
  • Maps out competitive defensibility and barriers to entry
  • Validates strategy coherence and surfaces critical assumptions to test
Made byProduct Management Skills by Pawel Huryn
CategoryProduct Management