Tool Foundation Sprint Founding Hypothesis
Day 2 end capstone move of a Foundation Sprint.
Install
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill tool-foundation-sprint-founding-hypothesis -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- product-on-purpose/pm-skills780
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 5d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,247 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Day 2 end capstone move of a Foundation Sprint. Compresses the sprint's full strategic frame into a single canonical sentence (the Founding Hypothesis) plus an assumption scorecard, why-we-believe, what-could-prove-us-wrong, and recommended next validation step. Use after Magic Lenses is signed. Strict canonical template; paraphrase is not accepted in v0.1.0. The Founding Hypothesis is the spine artifact the sprint exists to produce.
Foundation Sprint Founding Hypothesis
Day 2 end of a Foundation Sprint. The team compresses the full sprint output into a single canonical sentence plus a testable scorecard. This is the artifact the sprint exists to produce; everything before this skill was preparation. Without a ratifiable Founding Hypothesis, the sprint failed.
Family contract: site/src/content/docs/reference/skill-families/foundation-sprint-skills-contract.md. This skill is a member of foundation-sprint-skills.
When to Use
- Day 2 end of a Foundation Sprint.
- Magic Lenses is signed; top bet and backup are named.
- The team has 30-45 minutes left in Day 2 and the energy to write the sentence carefully.
When NOT to Use
- Magic Lenses did not produce a clear top bet. Return to Magic Lenses; the Founding Hypothesis cannot stabilize on an unstable top bet.
- The team wants to "polish the hypothesis later." The hypothesis must be ratified by end of Day 2 or the sprint output is incomplete. Polishing later means re-litigating; that defeats the sprint's purpose.
- The team wants to ratify a vague hypothesis to "ship the sprint." A vague hypothesis is worse than no hypothesis; it gives false confidence and burns trust when validation fails.
What This Skill Produces
A single bundled artifact with five sections:
