# Roadmap Shaping

> Turn ready work into themes, bets, and a defended sequence.

- Skill: `tinyhumansai/roadmap-shaping` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tinyhumansai/roadmap-shaping`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tinyhumansai/roadmap-shaping/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Product & Planning
- Author: tinyhumansai (https://skillmd.com/u/tinyhumansai)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tinyhumansai/roadmap-shaping

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# Roadmap Shaping

A roadmap is themes with bets and an order, not a list of features with dates.

## When to use

- The weekly review, when what is ready has changed.
- Whenever new evidence contradicts the current order.

## Steps

1. **Theme** the ready work: what change in the product is being attempted.
2. **State the bet** for each theme — what has to be true for it to matter.
3. **Sequence** by dependency, then evidence, then reversibility, then cost.
   Cost is a tie-breaker, never the lead.
4. **Date** as ranges, naming what each range depends on.
5. **Diff** it: what moved, what dropped, and the reason for each.

## Output

The sequenced roadmap plus a change note. Every move carries a reason, and a
`decisions` row records it.