Press Release

Write an Amazon-style press release that defines customer value before building. Use when aligning stakeholders on a new product, feature, or strategic bet.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill press-release
Manual install
git 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/press-release ~/.claude/skills/press-release

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

From the SKILL.md

## Purpose
Create a visionary press release following Amazon's "Working Backwards" methodology to define and communicate a product or feature before building it. Use this to align stakeholders on the customer value proposition, clarify the problem being solved, and test if the product story resonates—treating the press release as a forcing function for clarity and customer-centricity.

This is not a marketing artifact for launch day—it's a planning tool that asks "If we shipped this perfectly, how would we explain it to the world?"

## Input

**Works best with:** The product or feature idea, plus who it's for.
**Also useful:** The customer problem, the headline benefit, and an internal quote-worthy point of view.

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 asks who the customer is and what changes for them on launch day — the two things a working-backwards press release cannot fake.

**Example invocation:** `Amazon-style press release: instant expense approval for field technicians, launching Q3.`

## Key Concepts

### The Amazon Working Backwards Framework
Popularized by Amazon, the Working Backwards process starts with a press release and FAQ before any code is written. The press release must:
- Be written from the customer's perspective
Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name
press-release
Path
skills/press-release/SKILL.md
Repo updated
16 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Press Release skill do?

Write an Amazon-style press release that defines customer value before building. Use when aligning stakeholders on a new product, feature, or strategic bet.

How do I install the Press Release skill?

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

Is Press Release 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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