discovery-process SKILL.md skillA
discovery-process from deanpeters/product-manager-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/discovery-process@git:20260704.6a4fbf2Pins git:20260704.6a4fbf2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deanpeters/product-manager-skills
- Path
skills/discovery-process/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260704.6a4fbf2, committed Jul 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 10, 2026
- Size
- 19,607 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,599
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Run a full discovery cycle from problem hypothesis to validated solution. Use when a team needs a structured path through framing, interviews, synthesis, and experiments.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## Purpose Guide product managers through a complete discovery cycle—from initial problem hypothesis to validated solution—by orchestrating problem framing, customer interviews, synthesis, and experimentation skills into a structured process. Use this to systematically explore problem spaces, validate assumptions, and build confidence before committing to full development—avoiding "build it and they will come" syndrome and ensuring you're solving real customer problems. This is not a one-time research project—it's a continuous discovery practice that runs in parallel with delivery, typically 1-2 discovery cycles per quarter. ## Input **Works best with:** Your starting problem hypothesis — even a rough one. **Also useful:** Prior research, customer access, timeline, and what decision the discovery must inform. Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended `ARGUMENTS:` line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask. **Arriving empty-handed? That works too.** The workflow starts at problem framing and helps you construct the hypothesis first. …
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How to install
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/discovery-process@sha256:5a3cb36cc985b6e7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260704.6a4fbf2, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 10, 2026 and Jul 4, 2026, about one every 36 days.
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| git:20260704.6a4fbf2 latest | 2026-07-04 | 6a4fbf2 | 19,607 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260309.0a8f6ac | 2026-03-09 | 0a8f6ac | 18,874 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260227.26a442b | 2026-02-27 | 26a442b | 18,421 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260211.cc730da | 2026-02-11 | cc730da | 17,932 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260210.c95ff78 | 2026-02-10 | c95ff78 | 17,829 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (19607 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
deanpeters/product-manager-skills · 7,599 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kzcefh6hxpsl3zde GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/discovery-process GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5a3cb36cc985b6e7c72afc9de1a3f59645bdf63891d58fc17994982b0abaab03
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