Why What Acceptance

Why What Acceptance is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by phuryn in pm-skills.

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Install Why What Acceptance

Copy Why What Acceptance into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills/tree/main/pm-execution/skills/wwas ~/.claude/skills/wwas

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: pm-execution/skills/wwas/SKILL.md in phuryn/pm-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/wwas
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Why What Acceptance does

Why What Acceptance creates product backlog items in Why-What-Acceptance format, producing independent, valuable, testable items with strategic context. Use it when writing structured backlog items, breaking features into work items, or communicating strategic intent to teams.

Why What Acceptance is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Why What Acceptance comes from a repository tagged agent-skill-repository, agent-skills, agentic-skills, claude-code-marketplace and claude-code-plugins.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Why-What-Acceptance (WWA)

Create product backlog items in Why-What-Acceptance format. Produces independent, valuable, testable items with strategic context.

Use when: Writing backlog items, creating product increments, breaking features into work items, or communicating strategic intent to teams.

Arguments:

$PRODUCT: The product or system name
$FEATURE: The new feature or capability
$DESIGN: Link to design files (Figma, Miro, etc.)
$ASSUMPTIONS: Key assumptions and strategic context

Step-by-Step Process

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Why What Acceptance

What else does phuryn publish alongside Why What Acceptance?
Why What Acceptance is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from phuryn/pm-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include A/B Test Analysis, Beachhead Segment and Brainstorm Team OKRs. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Why What Acceptance does, and is maintained by phuryn in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the phuryn/pm-skills page.
How does Why What Acceptance compare to other Writing skills?
Why What Acceptance ranks #52 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Why What Acceptance against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.