Who it is forA product manager whose team sees low retention and wants to add push notifications right away.

The problemLow retention can come from forgetting or from never experiencing value, and each needs a different fix.

The outcomeA tested framing of the retention problem and one cheap observation that separates the two explanations.

What you need first

Git installed on your machine
A terminal for the install commands, separate from the agent prompt
A host agent that supports Agent Skills or reusable Markdown instructions, such as Codex

Steps

Open a terminal in the root of your project.
mkdir -p .agents/skills
git clone https://github.com/ordinary-s/falsify-the-problem.git .agents/skills/falsify-the-problem
In your agent, invoke the Falsify the Problem skill by name.
Describe the retention problem and the proposed push notifications, then ask for the cheapest observation that would tell the two explanations apart.

Prompt for your agent

Use the falsify-the-problem skill on this retention problem: <the retention data and the proposed push notifications>. Identify the current framing and materially different alternatives, then name one primary discriminating test. Verify that the output lists which observations are facts and which are assumptions.

Caveat. The skill relies on the evidence you provide or that the host agent can access, and it does not measure retention itself.

The repo

REPO ordinary-s/falsify-the-problem

Falsify the Problem

falsify-the-problem is an open-source Agent Skill, delivered as one SKILL.md file, that challenges a problem framing with cheap evidence before any solution is designed.

View repo on GitHub

Work and operations
Intermediate
15 minutes
Any agent

What you need first

Steps

Prompt for your agent

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