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Discovery Interview Guide
🟢 Production-Ready🕐 updated 2026-07-14
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-discovery
Create a structured user discovery interview guide with screener questions, a discussion guide, and a synthesis framework. Use when planning user interviews, customer discovery sessions, Jobs-to-be-Done research, or problem validation. Produces a complete guide covering warm-up, problem exploration, and a per-session synthesis template.
📚 Based on Continuous Discovery — Teresa Torres, Continuous Discovery Habits
What to give it
▸Research topic or question — what decision will this inform?
▸Target participant profile — role, behaviour, company type
▸Session length — 30 / 45 / 60 / 90 minutes
▸Number of interviews planned
▸Known hypotheses to test or avoid confirming prematurely (optional) — optional
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓No future-tense questions ("would you...") — only past-behaviour questions
✓Product or solution not mentioned until after pain is confirmed
✓Questions open-ended (cannot be answered yes/no)
✓Synthesis template included for per-session notes
✓Screener questions identify and disqualify wrong participants
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not use future-tense questions ("Would you use this?") — hypothetical responses do not predict real behaviour and produce false confidence in an idea
Do not mention your product or solution before problem exploration is complete — doing so anchors the participant's responses and invalidates the discovery
Do not synthesise across fewer than 5 interviews — themes from 2–3 interviews reflect anecdote, not pattern; wait for saturation
Do not write screener questions that are too easy to pass — if participants can guess the "right" answer, you will recruit the wrong people
Do not treat participant opinions as evidence of future behaviour — what people say they will do consistently diverges from what they actually do
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpStart with
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