Cookbook
Go from rough idea to buildable PRD
Turn a rough idea into a grounded PRD with real metrics and a Non-goals section, or it doesn't ship.
Productstarter
What this does
- Pulls past research synthesis, related Linear issues, and live PostHog metrics
- Drafts the PRD with Problem, Goals, Requirements, and Non-goals sections
- Flags any metric without a source instead of guessing a number
- Adds evals and fallback behavior automatically when the feature is AI
Workflow
- Trigger
New idea dropped
A rough idea, one paragraph, in a doc or Slack, kicks it off.
- Prompt
Pull the grounding
Past research synthesis, relevant PostHog metrics, related Linear issues.
- Prompt
Draft the PRD
Problem, goals, requirements, and a Non-goals section.
- Prompt
Check every metric
Real numbers only; missing ones render as [baseline needed].
- Result
Deliver for review
Doc saved and shared, summary posted to
Recommended skills
Reusable skills the recipe pulls in, add them once, every agent can use them.
PRD structureProblem, goals, requirements, Non-goals, in the team's standard shape.
Metric groundingEvery quantitative claim traces to a real PostHog number or a stored baseline.
AI-feature extensionFor AI features, add evals, confidence thresholds, and fallback behavior.
How to use this recipe
- 1Connect Linear, PostHog, and your doc destination to the agent
- 2Fire it when a rough idea drops in a doc or Slack
- 3Paste the prompt and answer the first-run questions once, memory keeps them
- 4Review the draft PRD and its metric citations before sharing
Recipe files
Copy the prompt
Install the "Go from rough idea to buildable PRD" recipe from the Eluu cookbook. 1. Fetch https://eluu.ai/cookbook/prd-from-idea/skill.md and save it into your skills folder as "prd-from-idea". 2. Ask me its first-run questions and store my answers in memory. 3. Then run the skill once end to end so we can review the output together.
eluu.ai/cookbook/prd-from-idea.md
Paste it into any agent. It fetches the recipe file and pulls in the skills and prompts on its own, the prompt stays short, the detail lives at the URL.
