# Product Spec Agent Template

Paste this into an AI agent before asking it to plan, critique, or implement a product change.

## Context

```md
Product:
Surface:
Audience:
Current behavior:
Desired behavior:
Primary user job:
Business reason:
Deadline:
Non-goals:
```

## Constraints

```md
Design system constraints:
Engineering constraints:
Data/API constraints:
Permission constraints:
Analytics constraints:
Accessibility requirements:
Mobile requirements:
Dependencies:
```

## Required States

- [ ] Loading
- [ ] Empty
- [ ] Error
- [ ] Partial data
- [ ] Permission denied
- [ ] Long content
- [ ] Small viewport
- [ ] Slow network
- [ ] Success
- [ ] Undo or recovery

## Agent Instructions

Ask the agent to:

1. Restate the product job.
2. List assumptions.
3. Identify risky missing states.
4. Propose the smallest useful shipped version.
5. Describe implementation boundaries.
6. Write acceptance criteria.
7. Suggest tests and manual QA steps.
8. Flag any invented behavior before implementation.

## Acceptance Criteria

```md
User can:
System should:
System should not:
Analytics should capture:
QA should verify:
Known tradeoffs:
```