Prd Review

PRD Review

This skill performs a deep PRD and requirements quality audit. It is for understanding and challenging the business logic in a requirement document, not for checking whether a document follows a fixed template.

Core Intent

Review whether the requirement is correct, clear, consistent, complete, implementable, and testable.

Before criticizing, build a business understanding:

• Business goal and system boundary
• Actors, roles, and permissions
• Business objects and data relationships
• Module responsibilities and module boundaries
• Core workflows and state transitions
• Cross-module dependencies and side effects
• Normal, exception, boundary, retry, rollback, and audit rules

Distinguish explicitly between:

• Stated: directly present in the source document
• Inferred: reasonable inference from the document
• Missing: required for implementation or testing but absent
• Question: must be confirmed by product/business owner

When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks to:

• Deeply review a PRD or requirement document
• Find business logic errors, omissions, contradictions, or ambiguity
• Evaluate module relationships, internal rules, and cross-module flows
• Check whether developers and testers can implement and verify the requirement
• Produce detailed modification advice, not just a score

Do not use this as the primary skill when the user only wants grammar cleanup, document formatting, or a fixed delivery checklist review.

Required Workflow

1. Ingest source material

   • Read the user-provided document(s), preserving section names and locations.
   • For DOCX/PDF inputs, extract text with the appropriate document tooling.
   • Note unreadable diagrams, external links, missing attachments, or image-only flowcharts.

2. Load review framework

   • Read references/review-framework.md before the first substantive review.
   • Read references/issue-taxonomy.md before classifying findings.
   • Read references/report-template.md before writing the final report.
   • Read additional reference files only when needed:
     • references/module-review-template.md for per-module review.
     • references/cross-module-checklist.md for module interaction and consistency checks.
     • references/business-rule-checklist.md for rules, states, data, permission, and exception checks.
     • references/requirement-quality-checklist.md for clarity, consistency, priority, terminology, data definition, and ambiguity checks.

3. Build business model first

   • Summarize the business goal, system boundary, actors, objects, modules, flows, states, data dependencies, and permissions.
   • Mark each important point as Stated, Inferred, Missing, or Question.
   • If the business model cannot be built, report blockers before issuing detailed findings.

4. Perform module-level review

   • For each module, identify responsibilities, inputs, outputs, dependencies, rules, states, permissions, normal flow, exception flow, and missing decisions.
   • Find internal contradictions, underspecified rules, incomplete states, ambiguous wording, and test gaps.
   • Check whether business rules are explicitly defined and whether requirement descriptions are unambiguous enough for design, development, and QA.

5. Perform cross-module review

   • Check whether upstream data exists before downstream use.
   • Check consistency of field definitions, conflict handling, permissions, retries, status names, and side effects.
   • Check consistency of terminology, feature descriptions, data definitions, priority labels, and priority criteria.
   • Check whether data changes in one module affect other modules and whether those effects are specified.

6. Assess implementation and testing risk

   • Identify rules that cannot be implemented deterministically.
   • Identify acceptance criteria or test cases that cannot be derived from the current document.
   • Identify external system, data migration, concurrency, audit, rollback, and security risks.

7. Write findings with fixes

   • Every important finding must include why it matters, impact, specific recommendation, and a suggested replacement/addition when useful.
   • Do not merely say "missing acceptance criteria"; name the concrete scenario and propose testable wording.
   • Put open business decisions into a separate "Questions For Product" section.

Output Expectations

The final report should be actionable for product, engineering, and QA.

Include:

• Overall conclusion: whether the requirement is ready for design/development/testing.
• Business understanding: concise model of the domain as read from the document.
• Key risks: the highest impact logic, data, permission, or testability risks.
• Module-level findings.
• Cross-module findings.
• Detailed findings table.
• Suggested document changes, including suggested wording for high-value fixes.
• Questions for product/business owner.
• Suggested test scenarios.

Scoring is optional. If a score is useful, keep it secondary to the findings and rationale.

Review Discipline

• Do not invent facts. Label inferences.
• Do not stop at template gaps. Find business and rule gaps.
• Do not treat screenshots or diagrams as sufficient when the underlying rules are not specified.
• Do not require a single universal template; adapt the review to the document's domain.
• Prefer precise, cited findings over broad criticism.
• Use source section names, line numbers, headings, or quoted short phrases to locate issues.
• Keep the tone firm, specific, and constructive.