Opportunity Solution Tree
Build an Opportunity Solution Tree from outcomes to opportunities, solutions, and tests. Use when a stakeholder request needs problem framing before you decide what to build.
Install
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill opportunity-solution-treegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills.git /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills/skills/opportunity-solution-tree ~/.claude/skills/opportunity-solution-treePersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
## Purpose Guide product managers through creating an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) by extracting target outcomes from stakeholder requests, generating opportunity options (problems to solve), mapping potential solutions, and selecting the best proof-of-concept (POC) based on feasibility, impact, and market fit. Use this to move from vague product requests to structured discovery, ensuring teams solve the right problems before jumping to solutions—avoiding "feature factory" syndrome and premature convergence on ideas. This is not a roadmap generator—it's a structured discovery process that outputs validated opportunities with testable solution hypotheses. ## Input **Works best with:** The stakeholder request or the target outcome you're starting from. **Also useful:** Customer evidence you already have, constraints, and solutions already being pushed. Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask. **Arriving empty-handed? That works too.** The skill opens by asking for the request or desired outcome, then extracts the measurable target outcome from it. **Example invocation:** `Build an OST from this request: 'Sales says we need a mobile app because competitors have one.'` ## Key Concepts ### What is an Opportunity Solution Tree (OST)?
Details
- Skill name
opportunity-solution-tree- Repository
- deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
- Path
skills/opportunity-solution-tree/SKILL.md- Repo updated
- 16 October 2026
FAQ
What does the Opportunity Solution Tree skill do?
Build an Opportunity Solution Tree from outcomes to opportunities, solutions, and tests. Use when a stakeholder request needs problem framing before you decide what to build.
How do I install the Opportunity Solution Tree skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill opportunity-solution-tree. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Opportunity Solution Tree popular?
It lives in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, which has 7,800 GitHub stars and 940 forks, and is included in 3 curated skill lists.
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