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title: "Working Backwards - Air Market"
description: "It is easy to start building and only later notice you cannot explain why anyone would want it. This helps you work backwards instead: describe the finished product first, then plan toward it. Reach…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/working-backwards"
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[Air Market](/) / [Productivity](/category/productivity) / Working Backwards

Skill by [Refound](/@refoundai)

# Working Backwards

Start from the finished thing and reason back to today

## What this does

It is easy to start building and only later notice you cannot explain why anyone would want it. This helps you work backwards instead: describe the finished product first, then plan toward it. Reach for it when defining something new or writing a PR/FAQ.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Define a new product from its end state
- Write a PR/FAQ
- Get clear on the value before building anything

## Information

**Working Backwards at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Refound](/@refoundai) |
| Category | [Productivity](/category/productivity) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 15 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [refoundai/lenny-skills](https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills/tree/280a57aa42fed3b6f35f51f0d9e71013b4c8ae74/skills/working-backwards) |
| GitHub stars | 1,265 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Working Backwards and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Working Backwards's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 280a57aa42fed3b6f35f51f0d9e71013b4c8ae74 |
| Content hash | ac2711c67a589cde39cce20c82d649f6cf75a6042e9bd5f1d1fdc63f4a9ea144 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills/blob/280a57aa42fed3b6f35f51f0d9e71013b4c8ae74/skills/working-backwards/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Working Backwards](/security/working-backwards)

## About Working Backwards

This helps you apply the working backwards methodology: starting from the future state you want and planning back from there.

Reach for it when you are defining a new product, writing a PR/FAQ, or trying to clarify what a product is worth to people before any of it gets built.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/guest-insights.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Working Backwards safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Working Backwards and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 280a57aa42fe, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/working-backwards.

### How do I install Working Backwards?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/working-backwards on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills/tree/280a57aa42fed3b6f35f51f0d9e71013b4c8ae74/skills/working-backwards. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Productivity listings](/category/productivity)
- [Everything by Refound](/@refoundai)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/working-backwards>