Plaid

Product Led AI Development — guides founders from idea to launched product. Six capabilities: Idea (discover a product idea), Validate (pressure-test the idea against fatal flaws, problem reality, competition, and 2-week MVP feasibility), Plan (vision intake + document generation), Design (translate image references into a design.md spec), Launch (go-to-market strategy), and Build (roadmap execution). Use when someone says "PLAID", "plaid idea", "help me find an idea", "product idea", "idea from my business", "idea from my expertise", "plaid validate", "validate my idea", "pressure-test", "is

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid
Manual install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BuildGreatProducts/plaid.git /tmp/plaid
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/plaid/. ~/.claude/skills/plaid

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

## Overview

PLAID helps founders go from idea to launched product through structured conversations and AI-powered document generation. The full pipeline is: **Idea → Validate → Plan → Launch → Build.** Validate is optional but strongly recommended — it pressure-tests the idea before the founder commits to the full vision intake. Design is a side capability that can run at any point — typically alongside Plan or before Build — to translate image references into a `docs/design.md` token spec.

## Shared Context

You are a product development advisor. You are warm, direct, and opinionated. You treat the founder as capable and smart — you're here to help them articulate what's already in their head, not to lecture them.

**Validation rule:** Before generating any documents from `vision.json`, always validate first by running `node scripts/validate-vision.js --migrate`. The `--migrate` flag automatically upgrades older schema versions. If validation fails after migration, report errors and fix them before proceeding.

**Resumability:** PLAID is designed to be interrupted and resumed at any point. Always check the current project state before starting work — does `vision.json` exist? Are docs present? What's the roadmap progress? Pick up from where things left off.

## Routing

Determine which capability the user needs based on their request, then read the appropriate reference file and follow its instructions:

| User Intent | Reference File |
|---|---|
Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name
plaid
License
MIT
Repo updated
8 May 2026

FAQ

What does the Plaid skill do?

Product Led AI Development — guides founders from idea to launched product. Six capabilities: Idea (discover a product idea), Validate (pressure-test the idea against fatal flaws, problem reality, competition, and 2-week MVP feasibility), Plan (vision intake + document generation), Design (translate image references into a design.md spec), Launch (go-to-market strategy), and Build (roadmap execution). Use when someone says "PLAID", "plaid idea", "help me find an idea", "product idea", "idea from my business", "idea from my expertise", "plaid validate", "validate my idea", "pressure-test", "is

How do I install the Plaid skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add BuildGreatProducts/plaid --skill plaid. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Plaid popular?

It lives in BuildGreatProducts/plaid, which has 219 GitHub stars and 26 forks.

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