# Shaping

> Use when shaping a solution with the user by iterating on requirements and shapes.

Use this methodology when collaboratively shaping a solution with the user - iterating on problem definition (requirements) and solution options (shapes).

## Facts

- Type: Agent skill
- Discipline: Product
- Author: Ryan Singer (https://github.com/rjs)
- Upstream: https://github.com/rjs/shaping-skills/tree/main/shaping
- Source file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rjs/shaping-skills/main/shaping/SKILL.md (23312 bytes, sha256:fed50ece3920387808ae5ff20e227db06549e7011f3e9778e2cc67e9f7a12bc2)
- Licence: none declared by the repo
- Upstream copy last changed: 2026-09-17
- Status: listed, not yet ruled on by the curator

## Use it

I want to use the Shaping skill by Ryan Singer.
This is what it does, in the author's own words: Use this methodology when collaboratively shaping a solution with the user - iterating on problem definition (requirements) and solution options (shapes).
Download the whole folder at https://github.com/rjs/shaping-skills/tree/main/shaping, SKILL.md and every file beside it, into your skills directory: ~/.claude/skills/shaping/ for Claude Code, ~/.agents/skills/shaping/ for Codex, ~/.cursor/skills/shaping/ for Cursor. Get it from the author's repo, not from startupskills.dev.
Then tell me the path you installed it to and how to invoke it.

Nothing here is vendored: install from the author's repo. This file carries none of the author's file.

## Links

- Page: https://startupskills.dev/rjs/shaping
- Author: https://startupskills.dev/rjs
- Index: https://startupskills.dev/llms.txt

## The file

Not reproduced here: the repo does not license republication. Read it on the author's GitHub:
https://github.com/rjs/shaping-skills/blob/main/shaping/SKILL.md