Terminology

A quick overview of the pieces and how they fit together.

The Four Pieces

Skills

Slash commands that do one product management job. Type /prd-generator and Claude walks you through writing a PRD. Type /competitive-profile-builder and it analyzes a competitor.

Each skill follows a proven product management framework (Marty Cagan, Teresa Torres, April Dunford) and produces structured output you can use immediately.

70+ skills included — from discovery to strategy to communication.

Workflows

Multi-step processes that chain skills together. Instead of running one skill at a time, a workflow runs an entire sequence — sometimes with multiple Claude agents working in parallel.

Example: The Batch Interview Analysis workflow processes 10 interview transcripts simultaneously, then synthesizes findings across all of them. What takes 4 hours manually takes 20 minutes.

Templates

Output formats that skills use. A PRD always follows the same structure. A status update always hits the same sections. Templates give you consistency without you thinking about formatting.

You can customize templates in the templates/ folder if the defaults don't match your team's format.

Context

Your company, product, personas, and competitors — stored in markdown files in the context/ folder. Every skill reads these automatically.

This is the difference between Second and generic AI. You never re-explain your product. Every output references your actual users, competitors, and priorities — not generic placeholders.

How They Connect

Context (your company info)
    ↓ feeds into
Skills (slash commands)
    ↓ use
Templates (output formats)
    ↓ chain into
Workflows (multi-step processes)

Context makes everything personalized. Skills do the work. Templates keep output consistent. Workflows handle complex multi-step tasks.

The Inputs/Outputs Pattern

Every work folder follows the same structure:

discovery/
├── inputs/    ← Drop files here (transcripts, research)
└── outputs/   ← Second saves results here

strategy/
├── inputs/    ← Drop files here (competitor info)
└── outputs/   ← Second saves results here

You always know where to put things and where to find results.

Why Context Matters

The more specific your context files, the better every output. You can enrich your context anytime.