Unlock Your Project's North Star with AI-Powered Guidance

Unlock Your Project's North Star with AI-Powered Guidance

This skill, designed for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, assists in the early stages of new projects, businesses, or pivots by creating a structured foundational artifact. It conducts a self-interview with the founder, generating a document that encapsulates the project's core objectives and intended trajectory, aiming to prevent identity drift and ensure alignment throughout the development process.

What this skill does

• Facilitates a three-question self-interview to capture the founder's intentions and context at the project's inception.
• Produces a concise 3 to 5 sentence summary document located at /docs/00-north-star.md, which outlines the project's purpose and approach, formatted with YAML frontmatter for machine readability.
• Generates a comprehensive session log saved to /docs/build-logs/north-star-v{N}.md, providing a record of the interview process and cross-model review, necessary for maintaining project coherence.
• Supports a drift mode feature to update the north star document when the original framework no longer suits the evolving project vision.

Who it is for

• Developers and teams using AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex at the initial stages of a project.
• Founders and project leads who seek to document and preserve their project's core vision and strategy from the outset.

Use cases

• Initiating a newly conceived project where a clear foundational document is required to guide downstream development efforts.
• Pivoting an existing business and needing to realign and document new strategic goals and directions.
• Revisiting and revising the project's north star during development if the initial plan becomes misaligned with current objectives.

Technical details

• Compatible with AI coding agents: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex.
• Utilizes structured interview processes and YAML for creating and managing project goal artifacts and logs.

Source & Licence

This package is built on open-source work published by mollyretter (mollyretter/forward-deployed-engineer-toolkit) and distributed under MIT. The original licence text and copyright notice are included in your download.

Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted, provided the original copyright and licence notice are retained.

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Delivery & Support

• Delivery: instant — a secure download link is emailed to you as soon as payment is confirmed.
• Format: ZIP archive containing the skill files, documentation and the original licence.
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• Updates: updates are included only where stated on this page.

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