I Built PRDs 10x Faster with Claude (PM Hack)

Name: I Built PRDs 10x Faster with Claude (PM Hack)
Uploaded: 2026-03-20T12:05:29Z
Duration: 31 min 13 s
Description: In this session I walk through the PRD Maker skill for Claude, a simple workflow that takes a rough idea and turns it into a structured, ready to use Product Requirements Document in seconds.

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0:02deliver
0:03millions of products in a single
0:05Um at Zingga I was leading some
0:09at Zinga where we I was leading
0:12with millions of dollars of
0:14revenues and billions of daily
0:17users. Currently I build a
0:20called code. It's a e-commerce
0:24of loable if you can say and lot
0:26codepai 80% of code AI is built using
0:29code. So I'm a super super power
0:31of codep um super super power user
0:34cloud code and thanks to claude I'm I
0:37able to run and build codepi.
0:40with that introduction let's
0:42started. What are we going to cover
0:44right? Um I'll go through this
0:47so that uh I mean probably first
0:49an hour I'll go through um what is
0:52skill why is it important why
0:54we go through it I'll cover two
0:56demos um which I think I'm liking
1:00using it over last couple of days
1:03live demo is about how do you create
1:06entire PR um just with a simple idea
1:09very vague idea and I'll show you the
1:11of what is possible there right um
1:13from creating
1:15sequence diagram to user flows
1:18expanding the problem statement
1:20edge cases covering user
1:22lot of interesting things um
1:26in over there then we'll go
1:28a blog a blog writer skill um
1:31so
1:33show you a demo of how you can
1:35a very complete blog along with an
1:37generation and how do how is skill
1:40helpful here should you and and
1:42we'll end it up to say what is
1:44a framework and um state of mental
1:47which you have to follow if you
1:50to overengineer and create a skill
1:52you know basic prompts will work. So
1:53also cover through a small
1:55at the end. All right. Uh
1:58this short format probably I'll
2:00make it too interactive. I will
2:03cover these along with live
2:04for first half an hour and I'll
2:06up for questions in the last 15
2:08All right.
2:11So what is skills right like what
2:14it really matter um effectively
2:18all of us have been using prompts
2:21a very very good way like both in
2:24AI or chat gibbity or publicity
2:26cloud code different tools and
2:29skill sets and currently cloud
2:32as well. Now you might have
2:35um that often times you have to
2:38a lot of repetitive prompts right
2:40say you have a particular brand
2:43in mind right um and it has to
2:46the brand language every time
2:48the instructions have to be
2:50to the tea you don't want those
2:54or double dashes out there in the
2:57output right because it the output
2:59to look very very human especially
3:01the search engines penalizing all
3:05engines and social media
3:07AI generated content, right?
3:10need it to be very consistent out of
3:12box. Every time let's say you're
3:14a PRD, you got five or 10
3:17sections in mind. It has to
3:19that structure to the T. It
3:20not deviate from the structure
3:22by you. And you and maybe lot
3:25of you might have observed like
3:27you use cloud code especially or
3:29co-work um it tends to go in
3:33trying to figure out how this
3:36to be done right which means it's
3:38let's say you got a small code
3:41you ask it to write a small blog
3:45every time you ask it to write a new
3:47it's going to probably read your
3:49files it's going to read your
3:50code structure layouts
3:53then finally go back to start
3:56your blog. And again, the
3:58of repeating some mistakes that
4:00always makes is um pretty much
4:02right? So, um skills are
4:06a very good way to solve sort
4:09solve for token wastage as well,
4:11And then easier handoff, right?
4:13so let's say skills are easily
4:16which means once you create a
4:18which I'm going to show just now
4:20a while and I can also share these
4:23with you which means the PR skill
4:25I'm going to demo to you I'm going
4:27share it with you guys. You guys
4:29you guys can use it either from
4:31co-work or cloud code and try to
4:34the magic live right probably you
4:37should definitely try it over the
4:41right. Um, so given this, what is a
4:45is a high level anatomy of a claude
4:46right? Like how does it really?
4:58let's limit this group to the
5:01session that that's happening
5:05right. U, so what is cloud skill,
5:08So how what is the structure of a
5:09skill? How do you even write a
5:10skill? Right? Uh effectively it's
5:13prompt. Um you can write a small
5:15which defines what needs to be
5:17You can write set of rules. Um so
5:20don't want this to to become like a
5:24agent which which gets um
5:27at any random point in time.
5:29you have you can set some controls in
5:31right okay given this cloud skill
5:33are the tools it can use? what are
5:35levels of permissions that we can
5:37give to the particular skill? Can
5:40be triggered by me or can it be
5:42by claude itself? Right? So
5:44are a lot of guardrails in place
5:45claude already provides. There are
5:48of files that you can provide um
5:51in terms of reference, right?
5:53in terms of PRD, if your
5:55follows a particular structure,
5:57can um give lot of examples and
6:00so that Claude can always
6:03the same structure. And finally,
6:05right? Uh when you create a
6:07typically claude works pretty well
6:10you create a MD or a markdown
6:13But let's say after the markdown
6:16completed, you want it to be uh
6:18into a PDF format or with your
6:22company's logo on top of it, right?
6:24maybe a doc format so that you can
6:26share with couple of your
6:28and you can collaborate on
6:29of it. So all these are part of
6:31and maybe a blog article where I
6:33to generate an image based on the
6:35that I the content that I just
6:38these are parts of scripts which
6:40think about this way right you you
6:43um creating a repeatable workflow
6:46yourself where you are giving
6:48instructions which goes into
6:50skills.mmd or the prompt file then
6:53setting some rules you are giving
6:56to couple of files where you can
6:58references examples and other
7:00and finally you have scripts so
7:02um claude can run some of those
7:04commands and do the job for you
7:07connecting to maybe external
7:09right?
7:16this is a skill.md structure you
7:18a name that you mention um so for
7:21for the PRD one I have given it
7:23name of feature breakdown uh you you
7:26to be very careful when you write
7:28descriptions because descriptions
7:31a way through which claude detects
7:34skill to pick right um so you you
7:38start typing to say hey create a PR
7:40me for this particular idea and
7:42autom automatically figures out
7:44Rajes has probably 20 skills
7:47out of which I need to pick
7:49breakdown skill right so
7:51are super super important
7:53need to be very specific to ensure
7:56gets triggered only on this only on
7:58particular skill that you require it
8:01trigger on right
8:03I can give a structure hey look I I
8:05a PR this is a high level structure
8:07terms of what I need so these are the
8:08that go to your skill.md
8:10which is a prompt Right now the
8:12can be stored at multiple
8:14similar to cloud.md file. It can
8:17be at a personal level which is
8:19your laptop or a desktop level. It
8:23which applies to all your projects.
8:25can trigger the skills from any of
8:26projects within your cloud
8:28The second one is at a
8:30level. You don't want skills to
8:32spread all across your projects. You
8:35skills to be presented uh and
8:37via particular products. You
8:40also define at that level. very
8:41to claude.md files. Claude.mmd
8:45more of instructions to claude in
8:46of following a a particular
8:49in terms of code generation. Um
8:53also apply at similar levels at a
8:55level and the project level and
8:57you have an organization you can also
8:59some plugins at a enterprise level.
9:04great uh I let's jump in. I think we
9:07limited time so let's jump in. I'll
9:10my screen.
9:23Great. So,
9:27is a PRM maker um folder that I
9:30in my um in my particular file.
9:33I'll show you how the skills.mmd
9:37and other things look for this. Let
9:39show you the magic first and then and
9:42I'll show you the structure in in
9:43of what I have built here. Right.
9:52create
9:54PRD for a new feature
10:01on code pop AI
10:19start
10:30Stripe integrations. As a product
10:32I need a new integration which
10:34with PayPal where um any builder who
10:37their website on codei can attach
10:40PayPal account and start receiving
10:43over that particular channel.
10:44So, again, I kept it very vague
10:46very simple. Obviously as product
10:48we go much deeper but let's see
10:50cloth does right so this is the one
10:53PayPal that I that I created
10:56right in this case if you can
11:01this was uh me um improvising on
11:04prompts and clot skills in this
11:07case it came back with a very
11:13are the product decisions that we
11:15going to do what are the key
11:16flows was a highle sequence
11:19right in terms of how the
11:21happen between a builder
11:24front end back end and my PayPal
11:27um pretty useful when you are a
11:30pain this takes some time to
11:32but thanks to the cloud skills and
11:35scripts that I use this um all this
11:38in an instant right in a in a
11:40or so
11:42then tada
11:45is a user flow diagram What happens
11:47a PayPal integration, right? Um
11:51comes in, they open a payments
11:53click connect with PayPal
11:56then um does he have a pay PayPal
11:58If so, follow this particular
12:00flow and if completed once
12:03you know, probably check if
12:06hook payments are received or not
12:09then you know the payments are
12:10right? So pretty elaborate in
12:13of uh what it came out with.
12:16to the skills that I created and
12:18this was one shot. Right now I got a
12:21workflow for my PRDS where I
12:23write a single sentence and claude
12:26up with all these elements thanks
12:28the skills and also as you can see I
12:31added a small watermark of code pub
12:33I have also added a header and
12:35you know to show my brand theme
12:38brand color which is pretty
12:39all across.
12:42these were possible thanks to clot
12:44Right
12:46let's jump into how that file looks
12:49Right. Um
13:00file that I created right. Um
13:04go this sits in my um claude root
13:08and there's a folder called under
13:10there's a folder called feature
13:12and if you see there is a
13:22how it looks okay this how a
13:26file looks given a very good
13:29in terms of when this this
13:31be triggered Right? I'm I have
13:34explicit instructions to say hey
13:36this whenever user says
13:37like write a PR for me or help
13:40with a spec or break down this
13:41Right? This is super super
13:44otherwise your cloud skill
13:45not be triggered.
13:48have given some configurations because
13:50wanted it to be portable. So um I'll
13:53it probably after this call. All
13:56need to do is there's a skill skill
13:58MD file where you need to enter
14:00own details and claude will start
14:02for your companies based on your
14:04colors, brand themes, instructions
14:07other sorts. And I told about hey um
14:11very clear about some of these who
14:13you building for, what is the
14:14statement, I need a PR summary,
14:17need a problem statement, solution,
14:19now? All the sections you see over
14:21and I also gave detailed
14:23in terms of technical flow,
14:25examples of mermaid diagrams, what
14:27the business rules it has to follow,
14:30flow diagram, some examples of the
14:32um pretty much lot of instructions
14:36ensure my workflow is repeatable and
14:40a way I have trained claw to you know
14:42my custom instructions every time
14:46every time I create a spec
14:56examples. Um I've given examples of
14:59colors. I've given a checklist of
15:02release notes should look like. Um I
15:04given examples of different
15:07Uh a PR template, analytics
15:10template, brand colors, lot of
15:13things, right? So this pretty
15:15what we covered just now which says
15:17a skill.md file which is more of
15:19instruction. Um I improvised it
15:22to say I also created a skill
15:24MD file so that any of you can
15:27the skill that I have created for
15:29own organization.
15:31are a lot of files which I created
15:33claude uses as reference at the
15:35These are super helpful because
15:38don't want to bloat up your context
15:40right on the first go. So what
15:42does is it it only looks at
15:44file uh during your initial
15:47set and if the skill matches
15:50only when required it goes to your
15:52documents right so that way you
15:54keep the context very concise and
15:59all right and also so I also talked
16:02scripts right so convert_pd
16:04there's a script that runs every
16:07my u my overall pd is generated
16:11So how this works is claude works
16:13all these in instructions
16:15a markdown file and that
16:18file is converted into a PDF
16:20doc file which I just displayed to
16:22documentation file. Um and all this
16:25done thanks to the scripts that I
16:27generated. So so pretty much an
16:30use case in terms of how I use
16:32skill to create my PR.
16:36great. This is one good example. I
16:39other good example probably I'm
16:41able to show you because Claude is
16:44some issues but I can also show
16:47a blog file that I generated right
17:06simpler
17:12a website right now which is uh
17:15website.
17:22in here and all these blogs are
17:25in a particular format right
17:26you look at a blog I need a uh
17:29I need a subtitle I need a
17:31I need a small image to be
17:33and then um you know the the
17:36body of what the blog says right
17:40I don't want this to be AI so I
17:42to humanize the entire blog content
17:45so it doesn't look like AI has
17:47this entire content Right. Um
17:50my codebase has a particular
17:52Um I sort of automate this
17:55thing by storing the blog data in
17:58JSON format. So so claude what I did
18:01in the cloud skills I sort of created
18:06cloud skill which is highly
18:08for my particular use case.
18:17for my use case, right? I
18:20just go in punch in a topic and
18:24blog writer skill will create the
18:27JSON structure for me which will
18:31push to production and my blog
18:33published automatically, right? And I
18:35wrote a script that should be
18:37which automatically calls the
18:39APIs to create an image for me.
18:42I write a simple oneliner in terms of
18:44blog that I need. Claude skill takes
18:47of the rest and publishes the blog
18:49with an image. Right? So if you
18:51at this MD file, I give detailed
18:54in terms of what to do,
18:56not to do, uh which sort of lang
18:58to use, what sort of tone to
19:00Uh there are different components
19:03a blog like you know the the title
19:05metadata description uh what goes
19:08first paragraph what are the
19:10tags that it should create
19:11um multiple elements and also
19:15are SEO optimized right so I need
19:18create a something in this format
19:22which is required for front end to
19:24and I also show a lot of relevant
19:27under each blog right so I give
19:29instructions in terms of what
19:31do what not to do and finally once
19:34does I also give it a script
19:35run right so if you see there's a
19:37that I already have which I want
19:40to run uh where it takes input as
19:43title of this blog and it runs it
19:46a Gemini API to create an image
19:48for me. So yeah uh this is a
19:51simple instruction file but again
19:54I had to do this again and again on
19:57a claude code probably I'll have
20:00create a memory file claude will um
20:04probably divert once in a while and
20:06have to course correct which means
20:07waste lot of tokens right so this is a
20:11way to automate your workflows
20:14you have a definitive repeatable path
20:17you want to follow again and Okay.
20:20right. Cool.
20:24treadm let me go back to the PPT.
20:33by the way, so these are just, you
20:35we are touching just scratching
20:37surface of what claude skills or
20:39can do. Um I'm also hosting a
20:42um from starting from March 27th
20:45we go pretty deep into AI coding
20:47this is the entire knowledge that
20:49gained over last one year in terms
20:51using cloud code to build codep
20:54into one simple cohort over 6
20:57period. Right? So we'll have a lot
20:59capstone project. We'll have hands-on
21:01We'll go topic by topic in
21:03of what you need to learn within
21:06code to become a a good expert in
21:09of building um building real
21:12that that that that you can
21:14live. Right. The success metric for
21:16would be like all my cohort students
21:18be able to repeatably and
21:22build some of these products
21:25take them to production and live. So
21:27is a confidence that all these
21:29students will will get. Uh
21:32a QR code. You can scan the QR
21:33or you can go to the link. Uh this
21:36available I mean this available on
21:37So feel free to check it out.
21:41U again blog writer skill. I
21:43we discussed enough about this. I
21:45a content idea which u which I go
21:49which goes through cloud skill
21:50creates a detailed blog JSON as
21:52as runs the image script for me.
21:55how the blog was was getting
21:57right? Um all right. So I
22:01I will
22:03leave you with one thought and then
22:05open it for Q&A. Uh what is a
22:08that you should keep in mind
22:09you skill, right? Very simple. If
22:13is a repeatable process, if you have
22:16structure, um, if the structure of
22:18output really matters to you, if you
22:20a consistent output anytime,
22:23and every time, and if you want
22:25to follow your instructions in the
22:27exact way again and again, right?
22:29so think about some of these mental
22:32I think I love it when we use it
22:35PR generation because it's a
22:36executional task. I love it
22:39block generations. Um and it follows
22:42brand tone and brand colors to the
22:44Front end generation there are a
22:46of interesting skills available
22:48now to avoid the AI slop. Um I
22:51there is a repository called taste
22:53which you guys should definitely
22:55There are some by versel. There is
22:58front end design skill by claude as
22:59Anthropic as well. All those are
23:02interesting right u social media
23:04Brilliant. Right. Again, lovely
23:07these are different formats and
23:09are very small formats, right? So,
23:12does fantastic job in in terms of
23:14your social media posts,
23:17summarization, customer email
23:19and again uh the space is wide
23:21It depends on which use case you
23:24to build and how you want to
23:25But key thing to keep in mind
23:28whichever is a repeatable process
23:30you want to automate using cloud,
23:33should definitely go for cloud
23:41will stop here. I'll open it open it
23:44for questions. Um, one second. I'll
23:49you the chat access.
23:56Probably this is a good time
23:57ask.
24:12I'm good.
24:14Uh this is Eddie. Thank you. Uh
24:16So when you build out these
24:19very detailed PRDs, um do you just
24:22it into clawed code to and it
24:26them out and it follows the
24:28precisely? Cuz it it just
24:30like a lot. And I've I've used
24:32but uh never that detailed. So it
24:36like is it going to lose some of
24:38context? Is is some of it going to
24:40lost? How and and in some ways also
24:43necessary it is versus how desired
24:47is I guess would be another way of
24:49it too.
24:50good question Eddie. Look, what
24:53is uh in a typical PR
24:56so this is an evolution,
24:58uh when I started using claude
25:01really claude code maybe claude as a
25:03the web I used to give in bunch of
25:07documents that I have I probably
25:09three or four documents of my
25:11PSDs and I ask to ask claw to
25:14back with a PR for a new feature
25:16that used to be my typical
25:18but when the output comes um
25:21output is not 100% accurate right so
25:24probably the document didn't have my
25:26tone or you know the formatting.
25:28which means I need to copy a very
25:30prompt again and again. Um, and
25:34um I probably have to do at least
25:3720 conversations before I'm finally
25:41about consistency of the
25:42Right? Cloud skill is a
25:45way to automate. Again, the
25:46I have showed is show shown you
25:48the most advanced way because I want
25:50cover diverse set of users uh
25:53PMS, customerf facing PMs and
25:55sort of product managers. But the
25:57is you can optimize this as per
26:00own organization and your own
26:02and you can further reduce this
26:04customize it right and the best
26:06is claude skills will always
26:09least possible amount of tokens
26:12get to um your final goal. So if you
26:16less token consumption u less money
26:19be spent on a deflative workflow
26:21PR creation you should
26:23go for it. Does it answer
26:26question, Eddie?
26:28it does. It does. And when you
26:31when you're building with the PRDS,
26:33thing I use is uh cuz I've used
26:36I'm still new. I've only used
26:38and I'm I'm trying to jump on a
26:40others. Uh I I make sure that
26:44a task MD basically or sprint
26:47So everything goes in sprint and
26:48So I could pretty much monitor
26:51development. Do you do that as well
26:53the PRD or do you just feed it
26:55the the PRD and let it pretty much
26:58like how do you structure the
27:01actual development? How do you
27:03it as it continues?
27:05I think what I think I took lot of
27:08in terms of optimizing
27:10particular uh skill.md files,
27:14Um so if you look at this
27:26have fed PR template here I fed brand
27:29here it took me a couple of
27:32to build this entire um skill
27:35myself uh but once I have built this
27:39works like a charm right so now I
27:41I do is I'm very sorry guys I could
27:43open cloud and show you the real
27:45but what happens now is when I go
27:47cloud code I say write a PR for
27:50integration for me. It
27:53triggers this claude skill
27:55within 1 minute my full PR is ready
27:57full PR document PDF uh all those
28:00are ready along with all the
28:04it adders consistently to my
28:05instructions so I think that's
28:08beauty so I don't monitor generally
28:10just do control and cloud code and I
28:12at what it tends to do it took me
28:14of iterations to um sort of build
28:16skill but once it is built it is
28:19reusable every time and it
28:21me perfect output
28:28you.
28:30right.
28:33Any other questions, folks?
28:47chat. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Idea. I'm
28:50to share this document with all of
28:51guys and I'm also going to uh share
28:54PR skill specifically and I'll give
28:58an instruction in terms of how you
28:59import into your own cloud code or
29:02co-work and you can reuse it
29:04for yourself. So u so that way
29:07think um you'll not you'll not at
29:09one week of your time will be
29:11So you can just customize it and
29:13using for yourself.
29:22you tried nesting skills or we
29:25keep them separate?
29:28haven't tried nesting skills per se. I
29:31used one skill at a time. But
29:33an interesting thing. Probably
29:35try it out next time. But I haven't
29:37typically for a even for this
29:40skill. If you see we have
29:41some advanced concepts like u
29:43context loading right in
29:46for the feature breakdown I
29:48had specific set of instructions
29:50when clot triggers at skill we had
29:53detailed documentation like PR
29:54add brand colors other things
29:56is a progressive disclosure of
29:59so that we don't load up the
30:00window and we also had a
30:02script right which runs
30:05which converts a MD file into a PDF
30:08document and everything happens one
30:10So, um but but I'll definitely try
30:14skills next time.
30:23s I am on LinkedIn. I'll ping you
30:26link.
30:45anything that you need. All right,
30:47guys. Thank you so much for your
30:49Thank you for patiently listening
30:51the entire session. Hopefully um uh
30:54guys have gained some knowledge
30:55and I'll ensure I'll follow up
30:57um a detailed instruction in terms
31:00how to import the skill and start
31:02your PSDs uh dynamically. All
31:04have a nice day. Bye-bye.

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