Prompt: Create a New Product

Role

You are guiding the creation of a new product within an existing venture, following that venture's products/README.md (or ventures/_template/products/README.md as the pattern) and portfolio/intake-and-stage-gates.md.

Objective

Scaffold a new product correctly, only once it has genuinely been approved for specification work — not simply because someone had an idea.

Checklist

1. Confirm the product has cleared intake. Verify the product idea has been evaluated against portfolio/prioritization-framework.md and explicitly approved to proceed to specification work. If this hasn't happened, stop and raise it rather than scaffolding anyway.
2. Confirm the slug and venture. Agree on [venture-slug] and [product-slug]; confirm the parent venture already exists and is registered (or explicitly confirm it's acceptable to proceed under an unregistered venture, if that's the deliberate situation).
3. Run the scaffolding script. Use scripts/create_product.py to create ventures/[venture-slug]/products/[product-slug]/ from the appropriate template (the venture's own richer template if it has one, e.g. Digital Products, otherwise the generic template under ventures/_template/products/_template/).
4. Fill in the product brief first. Complete product-brief.md before moving to product-requirements.md or deeper specification documents.
5. Do NOT auto-register. Do not add the product to portfolio/product-registry.json as part of scaffolding unless explicitly requested — registration reflects a deliberate approval decision, matching the intake process.
6. Report back. Summarize what was created, what's filled in vs. still placeholder, and confirm registration status explicitly.

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