Add product-context skill extracted from Karen's AGENTS.md

Extracts the product context section (plugin portfolio, target users,
competitive landscape, evaluation framework, feature spec template)
into a version-controlled company skill at skills/product-context/SKILL.md.
Updates CLAUDE.md with skill documentation and loading order.

Part of PRI-1094 — agent and process review.

Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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- `skills/safety/SKILL.md` — Non-negotiable safety rules (secret handling, destructive action restrictions, sealed-secrets workflow, escalation protocol) - `skills/safety/SKILL.md` — Non-negotiable safety rules (secret handling, destructive action restrictions, sealed-secrets workflow, escalation protocol)
- `skills/sdlc/SKILL.md` — Software development lifecycle rules (GitHub auth, issue approval gates, branch strategy, PR review policy, handoff protocol, CI/CD) - `skills/sdlc/SKILL.md` — Software development lifecycle rules (GitHub auth, issue approval gates, branch strategy, PR review policy, handoff protocol, CI/CD)
- `skills/coding-standards/SKILL.md` — Headlamp plugin development conventions (stack, commands, registration API, shared libraries) - `skills/coding-standards/SKILL.md` — Headlamp plugin development conventions (stack, commands, registration API, shared libraries)
- `skills/product-context/SKILL.md` — Product context (plugin portfolio, target users, competitive landscape, evaluation framework, feature spec template)
## Skill File Format ## Skill File Format
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## Skill Loading Order ## Skill Loading Order
Skills are loaded by Paperclip in this order: `safety``sdlc``coding-standards`. Later skills can assume earlier ones are already loaded and should not duplicate their content. Skills are loaded by Paperclip in this order: `safety``sdlc``coding-standards``product-context`. Later skills can assume earlier ones are already loaded and should not duplicate their content.
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---
name: product-context
description: >
Product context for Privileged Escalation. Covers current plugin portfolio,
target users, competitive landscape, plugin evaluation framework, and feature
spec template.
---
# Product Context
Load this section when triaging feature requests, evaluating new plugin proposals, or writing specs.
## Current plugin portfolio
| Plugin | Repo | What it does | Status |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------ |
| **Polaris** | `headlamp-polaris-plugin` | Kubernetes best practice validation and scoring | Active |
| **Kube-VIP** | `headlamp-kube-vip-plugin` | Kube-VIP load balancer management | Active |
| **Rook/Ceph** | `headlamp-rook-plugin` | Rook-Ceph storage cluster monitoring | Active |
| **Sealed Secrets** | `headlamp-sealed-secrets-plugin` | Bitnami Sealed Secrets management | Active |
| **Intel GPU** | `headlamp-intel-gpu-plugin` | Intel GPU device plugin monitoring | Active |
| **TrueNAS CSI** | `headlamp-tns-csi-plugin` | TrueNAS SCALE CSI driver monitoring | Active |
All plugins distributed via **ArtifactHub**, installed through Headlamp's native plugin installer only.
## Target users
**Primary: The Platform Engineer**
* Manages 1-50 Kubernetes clusters, mid-size company (100-2000 employees)
* Pain point: "I have 15 tools open to monitor my clusters. I want one dashboard that shows me everything."
* Very high tech comfort. Knows Kubernetes deeply. Will read your source code.
* Will adopt a plugin in 5 minutes if it solves a real problem. Will drop it in 5 seconds if it's buggy or doesn't add value over `kubectl`.
**Secondary: The DevOps Lead / SRE Manager**
* Manages a platform team, responsible for cluster health and reliability.
* Wants plugins that visualize what matters and surface problems proactively — NOT another monitoring tool.
**Anti-persona: The Application Developer**
App developers care about their deployments, not the cluster. Features like "show me my pod logs" are already in Headlamp core. Don't build for them.
## Scope
**In scope**
* Headlamp plugins that visualize and manage specific Kubernetes ecosystem tools
* Plugins that surface operational insights not available in Headlamp core
* Plugins for CNCF projects and widely-adopted K8s ecosystem tools
* ArtifactHub packaging and distribution
**Explicitly out of scope**
* Plugins that duplicate Headlamp core functionality
* Non-Kubernetes tools
* Hosted/SaaS versions of plugins
* Helm-based or sidecar-based plugin installation
* Custom Headlamp forks
* Monitoring/alerting backends (we visualize, we don't collect metrics)
* Multi-cluster management
* CLI tools
## Competitive landscape
| Competitor | Where PRI differs |
| -------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Headlamp core** | We extend it, not compete. If a feature belongs in core, contribute upstream. |
| **Lens** | Heavy, desktop-only, commercial. We make web-based, open source Headlamp better. |
| **k9s** | Different modality (TUI vs web). Not competitive. |
| **Komodor / Kubecost / Robusta** | Standalone products. Our plugins bring their insights INTO Headlamp. Complementary. |
PRI's moat: leading third-party Headlamp plugin developer. Plugins are free, open source, on ArtifactHub.
## Plugin evaluation framework
1. **Is there a widely-adopted K8s ecosystem tool that lacks Headlamp visibility?**
* Fewer than 1,000 GitHub stars or in alpha → too early. Close with "revisit when more mature."
* Already has a Headlamp plugin → duplicate. Close.
2. **Does the plugin add value over `kubectl` + the tool's own CLI/UI?**
* "It shows the same thing but in Headlamp" → weak value prop. Good plugins correlate data, surface problems proactively, simplify complex operations.
3. **Can Gandalf build and maintain it?**
* One engineer can maintain ~6-8 plugins at current complexity. We're at 6 now. New plugins mean either dropping an existing one or hiring.
4. **Is it installable via ArtifactHub without extras?**
* Plugin requires CRDs/RBAC/cluster resources installed separately → degraded experience.
* Unacceptable: plugin requires its own operator or sidecar.
**Priority tiers**
* **P0**: Bugs in existing plugins that break functionality or produce incorrect data
* **P1**: Enhancements to existing plugins users are requesting
* **P2**: New plugins for high-value K8s tools with clear user demand
* **P3**: Speculative plugins, cross-plugin features, UX experiments
## Feature spec template
```markdown
## Problem
What operational visibility or capability is missing? Who needs it? What do they do today instead?
## Proposed Solution
What should the plugin show or enable that isn't available today?
## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] Plugin displays...
- [ ] User can...
- [ ] Data is accurate when compared to `kubectl` / native CLI output
- [ ] Works with [tool name] version X.Y+
- [ ] Installable via ArtifactHub without additional cluster-level setup
- [ ] Has unit tests covering core display logic
## Out of Scope for This Issue
## Dependencies
What must exist in the cluster for this plugin to work? (CRDs, operators, RBAC)
## Priority
P0/P1/P2/P3 with one-sentence justification.
```