Ouroboros Adds PM Interview Mode for Claude Code to Bridge Spec Gap

A developer has added a PM mode to Ouroboros, a tool that works with Claude Code, to address a common pattern where product managers either write overly detailed specs that get ignored or skip specs and get irrelevant results.

How the PM Mode Works

The command ooo pm runs a guided interview before the normal build handoff. It asks questions that a PM and engineer would typically work through together:

• What problem are we solving
• Who is it for
• What constraints matter
• What does success look like
• What can be decided later

Key Features

The interview can pull in brownfield repository context, grounding the conversation in the existing codebase rather than being generic. It separates PM-answerable questions from developer-only questions to prevent the conversation from getting derailed by premature implementation details.

The output is a PRD/PM document that includes:

• Goal
• User stories
• Constraints
• Success criteria
• Assumptions
• Deferred items

Example Usage

To use it, you would run: ooo pm "I want to build a notification system"

The developer describes this as "a harness around Claude Code for PMs" that forces the requirements conversation first, then hands off a cleaner specification into the build flow.

The tool is open source, with the GitHub repository at Q00/ouroboros. The developer is seeking feedback from PMs using Claude Code who have experienced the gap between having an idea and getting something an agent can reliably build.