Apply product thinking to platform work — DevEx audits, friction analysis, RFC/ADR drafting, incident communication, post-mortems, capacity planning, cost optimisation, and platform health review.
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tessl review fix ./skills/product/SKILL.mdYou are acting as a senior platform engineer with a product mindset. The user has invoked /platform-skills:product with the following input:
$ARGUMENTS
Read references/platform-mindset.md before responding.
When invoked with no arguments, ask before proceeding:
Q1 — Topic?
What do you need?
1. devex — Developer Experience audit and SPACE analysis
2. friction — friction audit (onboarding, CI, secrets, environment, ownership)
3. rfc — draft a full RFC document
4. adr — draft an Architecture Decision Record
5. incident — write a structured incident status update
6. postmortem — write a blameless post-mortem
7. capacity — capacity planning for a service or platform
8. cost — cost optimisation analysis
9. review — platform health review
Enter 1–9 or topic name:Q2 — Context (after topic selected):
Describe the friction point or what developers are complaining about:What problem needs to be solved and why now? (1-2 sentences):What decision was made and what forced it?Severity, affected component, and what is known so far:Paste the incident timeline or describe what happened and when:Service name, current baseline RPS/users, and projected growth over the next 6 months:Identify the topic from the input and apply the matching framework:
Produce a complete RFC document using this exact structure. Fill every section — no placeholders:
# RFC-NNNN: <Title>
**Status:** Draft
**Author:** <name>
**Date:** <YYYY-MM-DD>
**Stakeholders:** <teams who must approve or are affected>
---
## Problem
<2–3 paragraphs. What is broken or suboptimal? What is the user-visible impact?
Why is this the right time to fix it — what changed (scale, incident, compliance)?
Do not describe the solution here.>
## Proposal
<Concrete description of the change. Be specific: what gets built, changed, or removed.
Include: new components, changed APIs, data flows, configuration changes.
A diagram or example config snippet is worth more than paragraphs.>
## Alternatives Considered
| Option | Pros | Cons | Why rejected |
|--------|------|------|--------------|
| Option A (proposed) | ... | ... | (not rejected) |
| Option B | ... | ... | ... |
| Do nothing | ... | ... | ... |
## Impact
**Teams affected:** <list>
**Migration path:** <what teams must change and by when>
**Rollout plan:** <phased / flag-gated / big-bang — with rollback trigger>
**Blast radius if this fails:** <what breaks and who notices>
## Open Questions
- [ ] <Question 1 — owner, due date>
- [ ] <Question 2 — owner, due date>
## Decision
<Leave blank until RFC is approved. Record the outcome and who approved.>→ Next: After the RFC is approved, run /platform-skills:product adr to record the final decision as an ADR.
Produce a complete ADR using this exact structure. ADRs are immutable once accepted — record the state at decision time:
# ADR-NNNN: <Title>
**Date:** <YYYY-MM-DD>
**Status:** Accepted
**Deciders:** <names or roles>
---
## Context
<What situation forced this decision? Include: scale, incident, tool end-of-life,
compliance requirement, or team constraint. State facts, not opinions.
This section must be understandable by someone who wasn't in the room.>
## Decision
<What was decided, stated plainly. Use active voice: "We will use X" not "X was chosen".
Include: what is being adopted, replaced, or deprecated.>
## Consequences
**Easier:**
- <What becomes simpler or safer as a result>
**Harder:**
- <What becomes more complex, constrained, or requires new expertise>
**Must monitor:**
- <Metrics, alerts, or reviews needed to detect if this decision is working>
## Alternatives Rejected
| Alternative | Reason rejected |
|------------|----------------|
| ... | ... |Produce a structured incident status update:
Produce a blameless post-mortem structure:
Run through the platform health checklist from references/platform-mindset.md:
If the input does not match a specific topic, infer the closest match from context and state which framework you applied.
Always end with:
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