# continuous-discovery

Builds a weekly customer interview habit, maps opportunities to solutions, and tests assumptions before writing code.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 5200 installs · ★ 2508
- Author: wondelai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/HEAD/continuous-discovery/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/continuous-discovery

## What it does

The skill establishes continuous discovery habits for the product trio of manager, designer, and engineer. It replaces quarterly research sprints with a weekly interview cadence. The benchmark requires at least one customer touchpoint every week. Practice quality starts at 3 and targets 10 out of 10.

At the center sits the Opportunity Solution Tree. It connects business outcomes to customer pain points, solutions, and small experiments. The tree remains a living artifact updated weekly with new evidence. The skill strictly forbids cherry-picking opportunities to justify predetermined features: every branch must trace back to real research.

Interviews focus strictly on past behavior rather than speculative opinions. The trio conducts interviews together. Findings go directly into one-page snapshots that build a shared evidence library. For specific interview phrasing the skill points to `mom-test`, while organizational structure relies on `inspired-product`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill continuous-discovery -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/continuous-discovery/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/continuous-discovery/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill continuous-discovery -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/continuous-discovery/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill continuous-discovery -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/continuous-discovery/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install wondelai/skills continuous-discovery
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/continuous-discovery/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill continuous-discovery -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/wondelai/skills --path continuous-discovery
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/continuous-discovery/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add wondelai/skills --skill continuous-discovery -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/HEAD/continuous-discovery/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build an Opportunity Solution Tree for a target business outcome
- diagnose team discovery habits on a 10-point scale
- map customer current-state experiences to identify pain points
- structure one-page interview snapshots from weekly customer calls
- connect research findings to engineering backlog experiments

## Example prompts
- We keep building things nobody uses. Help us set up a weekly customer interview cadence.
- Build an Opportunity Solution Tree to increase our trial-to-paid conversion rate.
- Score our discovery practice using the diagnostic framework and suggest specific fixes.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: continuous-discovery
description: 'Build a weekly cadence of customer touchpoints using Opportunity Solution Trees, assumption mapping, and interview snapshots. Use when the user mentions "continuous discovery", "opportunity solution tree", "weekly interviews", "assumption testing", "discovery habits", "product trio", "outcome-based roadmap", "how do I talk to customers regularly", "we keep building things nobody uses", or "connect research to the roadmap". Also trigger when setting up regular customer feedback loops, prioritizing which experiments to run, or tying discovery insights to delivery work. Covers experience mapping, co-creation, and prioritizing opportunities. For interview technique, see mom-test. For team structure, see inspired-product.'
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: wondelai
  version: "1.4.0"
---

# Continuous Discovery Habits Framework

Framework for building a sustainable weekly practice of customer discovery that keeps product teams progressing toward desired outcomes. Discovery is not a phase before development — it is embedded in the ongoing rhythm of product work so every decision is informed by fresh evidence.

## Core Principle

**Good product discovery requires a continuous cadence, not a one-time event.** Teams that talk to customers every week, map opportunities visually, and test assumptions before building consistently outperform teams that rely on intuition, stakeholder opinions, or quarterly research cycles. The benchmark: at least one customer touchpoint per week, every week, by the product trio (product manager, designer, engineer).

## Scoring

**Goal: 10/10.** Score a discovery practice by the seven Quick Diagnostic rows below — start at 3, add 1 point per row answered "yes" (max 10). Bands: **9-10** = weekly cadence, a living Opportunity Solution Tree, systematic assumption testing, and every shipped feature traceable to a customer opportunity; **5-6** = some discovery happening but ad hoc, PM-only, or disconnected from delivery; **≤3** = intuition- and stakeholder-driven with no regular customer contact. Report the current score, the failing rows, and the specific fix for each.

## Framework

### 1. Opportunity Solution Trees

**Core concept:** An Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) visually connects a desired outcome (top) to customer opportunities (middle) to potential solutions and experiments (bottom), making implicit product thinking explicit and shared.

**Why it works:** Most teams jump from business outcome straight to solutions, skipping the customer need entirely; the OST forces understanding of the opportunity space first, preventing features nobody wants.
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