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You get an opportunity tree: the customer problems under each outcome, each with its evidence.","area":"product","family":{"id":"build-product","name":"Build a product people want"},"lead":"build-an-outcome-based-roadmap-and-write-the-update","featured":false,"contextKind":"product","deliverables":["An opportunity tree: the customer problems under each outcome, each with its evidence","An outcome roadmap with a measure, an owner and bets under each outcome","A list of old roadmap features that have no outcome behind them","A quarter plan with the bets, what each should move, how you will know and what you are not doing","A one-page update for stakeholders"],"inputs":["The outcomes the business needs this year, as a number now and a target","What you know about customers: tickets, reviews, survey answers or interview notes","Your team's capacity for the quarter, in people and weeks","Your current roadmap (optional)","Last quarter's plan and results (optional)"],"opening":{"give":["The outcomes the business needs this year, as a number now and a target","Your team's capacity for the quarter, in people and weeks","Last quarter's plan and results (optional)"],"get":["An outcome roadmap with a measure, an owner and bets under each outcome","A list of old roadmap features that have no outcome behind them","A quarter plan with the bets, what each should move, how you will know and what you are not doing"]},"helpfulInputs":["Customer interview notes","Support ticket exports by theme","Last quarter's results against its plan"],"fit":["Your roadmap has twenty features and no one can say what each is for.","You ship on time and the numbers do not move.","Stakeholders keep adding features and you need a way to say no with a reason.","A new quarter starts and you must turn goals into a plan the team can commit to."],"limits":["You need a yes or no on one feature request: use the Feature request screener.","You have no customer evidence yet: collect some first with the Customer job interview planner, then come back.","You only need a status update for work already under way: use the Roadmap update writer on its own."],"tools":["Any good chat AI: Every step is a plan or a piece of writing.","A whiteboard or diagram tool: The opportunity tree is easier to argue with when you can see it.","Any good chat AI: Sorting and rewriting a list is text work that any strong chat AI does with this skill.","A spreadsheet: Holds the result numbers you track at each review point.","Claude or ChatGPT: Either can write the updates. Neither can read your git history, so paste the commits or run the script yourself.","Git and Python 3: Needed only if you want the changelog script to read your git history."],"method":["Download the workflow pack and add it to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. Use your strongest model.","Paste your outcomes with the number now and the target. Add tickets, reviews or notes, and your capacity.","Say: Follow the workflow, and mark anything you cannot find in what I gave you as MISSING.","Check the opportunity tree first. Every problem needs a quote or a count behind it. Remove any that do not have one.","Read the quarter plan with your team. Cut any bet you would not make.","Read the update once as a stakeholder, then send it yourself. The AI sends nothing."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Map the opportunities","description":"Finds the customer problems under each outcome from your evidence, marks any without evidence as a guess, and adds solution ideas under the top ones."},{"name":"Build the roadmap","description":"Lists outcomes with a measure, an owner and bets, in Marty Cagan's manner. Old features go under an outcome or are listed as unowned."},{"name":"Plan the quarter","description":"Picks the bets that fit your capacity, sets what each should move and how you will know, and lists what you are not doing."},{"name":"Write the update","description":"Writes the stakeholder update in plain words from the roadmap and the plan, without dates the plan does not hold."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.","Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.","Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.","Define how success will be measured before building."],"pitfalls":["Writing a feature list and calling it outcomes.","Opportunities taken from the old roadmap instead of from customer evidence.","Bets with no number that should move.","Squeezing too many bets into the quarter instead of cutting.","Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.","Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies."],"quality":["Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.","The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.","Every opportunity has a quote or a count behind it, or is marked GUESS.","The roadmap lists outcomes, each with a measure, a start, a target and one owner. Features are examples only.","Each bet names what it should move and how you will know.","The quarter plan fits the capacity and says what is not being done.","Every requirement can be tested."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":10,"source":0,"area":"product"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"Your roadmap has twenty features and no one can say what each is for.","task":"Give it the outcomes the business needs this year, as a number now and a target. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Your outcomes, each with a number now and a target","Customer evidence: tickets, reviews, survey answers or interview notes","Your team's capacity for the quarter","Your current roadmap (optional)","Last quarter's plan and results (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"Opportunity tree","contains":"For each outcome, the customer problems that would move its number, each with evidence and solution ideas."},{"name":"Outcome roadmap","contains":"Each outcome with its measure, owner and bets, plus a list of old features that have no outcome."},{"name":"Quarter plan","contains":"The bets that fit your capacity, what each should move, how you will know and what you are not doing."},{"name":"Stakeholder update","contains":"A one-page note on outcomes, bets, what changed since last time and what you are not doing."},{"name":"Hand-back summary","contains":"Each file, any step not run, every MISSING line and the checks that could not run."}]},"example":"Give it the outcomes the business needs this year, as a number now and a target. 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Get a tree of customer opportunities, solution ideas and the tests for each.","method":"opportunity-solution-tree","when":["Your team keeps debating features without agreeing on the problem.","You have interview notes and need to turn them into a plan.","A leader gave you a goal and you must pick what to explore first.","You want to show why you chose one idea over others."],"inputs":["One measurable outcome","Customer interview notes or research (optional)","Current metrics (optional)","Ideas already on the table (optional)"],"deliverables":["A four-level tree from outcome to experiments","Ranked customer opportunities","Several solution ideas per opportunity","Cheap tests for the top ideas"]},{"name":"Product outcome roadmap planner","description":"Turn a feature roadmap into outcomes. Paste your features and dates. Get three to five customer problems, each with a result you can measure.","method":"outcome-based-roadmap","when":["Your plan is a long list of features ranked by a deadline.","Your team ships on time and nothing seems to improve.","A boss or client has handed you a list of requests and you need to find the goals behind them."],"inputs":["Your list of features, tasks or requests, with any dates","Who asked for each item, if you know (optional)","Findings from earlier checks on the ideas (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each item marked as a feature, a problem or a result","Three to five problems, each for a named customer","One measurable result per problem","Review points in place of dates, with the evidence each needs"]},{"name":"Quarterly roadmap builder","description":"Turn your backlog and requests into a quarterly roadmap that balances new builds, fixes and upkeep, with a not-doing list you can defend.","method":"quarterly-roadmap-builder","when":["You are planning the next quarter or the full year.","Some items depend on others and the order matters.","Stakeholders keep asking for features and you need a firm reply.","A missed quarter or new strategy means you must replan."],"inputs":["Top goals or themes","Full backlog with one line each","Team capacity","Deadlines and constraints (optional)"],"deliverables":["Roadmap by quarter and theme","Ranking with reasons","Dependency map","Not-doing list","Version for stakeholders"]},{"name":"Roadmap update writer","description":"Turn your product plans into a roadmap update for executives, engineers or customers. Get the roadmap story, release notes or a changelog, one per reader.","method":"roadmap-update-writer","when":["You must brief the board and the engineering team on the same plan, and they need different things.","A release is going out and you need notes your customers will read.","You have a long git history and need a clean changelog from it.","You are announcing a new feature and want a clear order for the message."],"inputs":["Your plans, initiatives or feature list, with any dates, owners and status","Who will read the update: executives, engineers or customers","What you want written, such as a roadmap story, release notes or a changelog","A release date or version range (optional)","Your git commit messages or git access, for a changelog (optional)"],"deliverables":["A roadmap in the format that fits how certain your plans are","One update for each reader you named","Customer-facing or internal release notes","A changelog grouped by type of change","A list of details you still need to supply"]},{"name":"Product context file writer","description":"Share product facts, audience and positioning. 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Updated worked example."},{"version":1,"date":"2026-11-02","what":"First recorded version."}]},"learning":{"rules":[],"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"}},"worker":{"schema":"ai-blocks-specialist-worker/1","id":"build-an-outcome-based-roadmap-and-write-the-update","name":"Quarterly product roadmap planner","interface":{"inputs":[{"type":"short_text","required":true}],"outputs":[{"type":"document","required":true}],"brief":"The current task in the workflow goal and supplied context.","handoff":"work/handoff.md indexes the actual native deliverables and checks. An index does not replace a requested implementation."},"identity":{"remit":"Give it the outcomes the business needs this year, as a number now and a target. 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Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue.","reuse":"Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package."},"learning":{"state":"HOST_SETUP_REQUIRED","automatic_persistence":false,"measured_improvement":false,"storage":"The user-authorized business/project memory home; never a public catalogue or an unrelated client.","index":"memory/INDEX.md","records":["memory/preferences.md","memory/corrections.md","memory/decisions.md","memory/checks.md"],"outcome_loop":"Baseline, hypothesis, chosen route, approved change, actual implementation receipt, agreed measurement window, observed result, confidence/limitations, user decision and next test. Preserve negative and inconclusive outcomes.","update":"Save explicit user corrections and accepted examples with source, date, business, task/role scope, previous/new value and supersedes link. Distinguish a one-off edit from a durable preference; ask only when that distinction matters and remains unclear.","retrieval":"Read the short index and only relevant current records. Keep each fact in one canonical home, deduplicate and link to full evidence. Supersede stale guidance without silently erasing its history.","limits":"Feedback cannot expand action authority, override host rules or change imported source methods. Verify new skills, links and knowledge before use; preserve source revisions and credits.","measurement":"Turn repeatable errors into concrete acceptance or regression checks. Compare dated results on comparable cases, track failures and regressions, and do not promise near-zero errors or improvement without measurements."},"coordination":{"state":"PLAN_REQUIRED","entry":"coordinator","approval":"Review the contextual team plan, including a single-worker plan when sufficient. Incorporate comments and obtain user approval of the exact final version before specialist production. A preparation is not an approved plan.","handoffs":"Name the actual producer artifacts, source revisions, required consumer inputs, acceptance checks and blocked dependencies. Verify the artifact content before advancing.","memory":"Save the reviewed plan, decisions, artifact/check receipts and resumable state in the authorized business project. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"marty-cagan","name":"Marty Cagan","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Check a new product idea against the four big risks: value, usability, feasibility and business viability","Plan a cheap, fast test of an idea before a team spends months building it","Turn a list of requested features into the problems and outcomes behind them","Work out whether your team is a feature team or a team that owns results","Write a short product vision and a plan for which problems to tackle this quarter","Decide who on a small team owns value, design and delivery","Spot where a role is just coordination dressed up with a bigger title","Run a first round of conversations and prototype tests with real users"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Marty Cagan would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Marty Cagan's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/marty-cagan/SKILL.md","revision":"66cfdfdeb79795d4360695729f327b9ae1a8c865fa02dea60a167cd263f3dd6a","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"Any good chat AI: Every step is a plan or a piece of writing.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A whiteboard or diagram tool: The opportunity tree is easier to argue with when you can see it.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Sorting and rewriting a list is text work that any strong chat AI does with this skill.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A spreadsheet: Holds the result numbers you track at each review point.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Claude or ChatGPT: Either can write the updates. Neither can read your git history, so paste the commits or run the script yourself.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Git and Python 3: Needed only if you want the changelog script to read your git history.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-build-an-outcome-based-roadmap-and-write-the-update\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped quarterly product roadmap planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Quarterly product roadmap planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/build-an-outcome-based-roadmap-and-write-the-update · version 3\n\n## Remit\nGive it the outcomes the business needs this year, as a number now and a target. You get an opportunity tree: the customer problems under each outcome, each with its evidence.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- An opportunity tree: the customer problems under each outcome, each with its evidence\n- An outcome roadmap with a measure, an owner and bets under each outcome\n- A list of old roadmap features that have no outcome behind them\n- A quarter plan with the bets, what each should move, how you will know and what you are not doing\n- A one-page update for stakeholders\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Map the opportunities: Finds the customer problems under each outcome from your evidence, marks any without evidence as a guess, and adds solution ideas under the top ones.\n2. Build the roadmap: Lists outcomes with a measure, an owner and bets, in Marty Cagan's manner. Old features go under an outcome or are listed as unowned.\n3. Plan the quarter: Picks the bets that fit your capacity, sets what each should move and how you will know, and lists what you are not doing.\n4. Write the update: Writes the stakeholder update in plain words from the roadmap and the plan, without dates the plan does not hold.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Start from the user problem and the evidence for it, then the solution.\n- Write decisions down with the reason and the options you rejected.\n- Keep scope small enough to ship and learn. Name what is out of scope.\n- Define how success will be measured before building.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Writing a feature list and calling it outcomes.\n- Opportunities taken from the old roadmap instead of from customer evidence.\n- Bets with no number that should move.\n- Squeezing too many bets into the quarter instead of cutting.\n- Treating opinions or one loud request as proven demand.\n- Specs that skip edge cases, error states or dependencies.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: Your roadmap has twenty features and no one can say what each is for.\nGiven: Your outcomes, each with a number now and a target; Customer evidence: tickets, reviews, survey answers or interview notes; Your team's capacity for the quarter; Your current roadmap (optional); Last quarter's plan and results (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Opportunity tree: For each outcome, the customer problems that would move its number, each with evidence and solution ideas.\n- Outcome roadmap: Each outcome with its measure, owner and bets, plus a list of old features that have no outcome.\n- Quarter plan: The bets that fit your capacity, what each should move, how you will know and what you are not doing.\n- Stakeholder update: A one-page note on outcomes, bets, what changed since last time and what you are not doing.\n- Hand-back summary: Each file, any step not run, every MISSING line and the checks that could not run.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Every opportunity has a quote or a count behind it, or is marked GUESS.\n- The roadmap lists outcomes, each with a measure, a start, a target and one owner. Features are examples only.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Marty Cagan (skills/marty-cagan/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You need a yes or no on one feature request: use the Feature request screener.\n- You have no customer evidence yet: collect some first with the Customer job interview planner, then come back.\n- You only need a status update for work already under way: use the Roadmap update writer on its own.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. This role's work depends on its product context, not on brand research.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: what the product does, who it is for, current goals and constraints, and the user evidence available (research, tickets, analytics). Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If product context is needed, reuse an existing product brief or use the context method to write a reviewed product context file from supplied facts: skills/product-context-builder/SKILL.md. Files: product-context.md, work/evidence.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nSeparate user evidence from opinions and requests. Record goals, constraints, owners and decisions already made so they are not reopened by accident. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/build-an-outcome-based-roadmap-and-write-the-update/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Quarterly product roadmap planner (primary): [complete method](../build-an-outcome-based-roadmap-and-write-the-update/SKILL.md), revision 72c0771b5731\n- Opportunity solution tree builder: [complete method](../opportunity-solution-tree/SKILL.md), revision 0568dfd5cce2\n- Product outcome roadmap planner: [complete method](../outcome-based-roadmap/SKILL.md), revision bfc332b10f2b\n- Quarterly roadmap builder: [complete method](../quarterly-roadmap-builder/SKILL.md), revision c8c08b71c8d6\n- Roadmap update writer: [complete method](../roadmap-update-writer/SKILL.md), revision 52d869d2dfff\n- Product context file writer (context setup): [complete method](../product-context-builder/SKILL.md), revision 2fe017f2b8b4\n- Marty Cagan (review lens): [complete method](../marty-cagan/SKILL.md), revision 66cfdfdeb797\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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