product-discovery is agent-read markdown (skill) from nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher: Find the real problem behind a feature request before anyone scopes a solution — whose job is stuck, what evidence exists already, and what observation would prove the assumption wrong. Use when a request arrives phrased as a solution ("add a dashboard", "we need notifications"), when a team is about to build on a belief nobody has checked, or when asked whether something is worth building at all. Not for writing the spec once the problem is settled, not for ranking work that is already understo.
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What the file says
# Product discovery
A feature request is an answer. Discovery is recovering the question it answers, and finding out
whether the question is real. Most of the evidence you need already exists and nobody has read it.
## When this fires
A request names a solution and not a problem; a plan rests on a belief about users that has never
been checked; someone asks whether a thing is worth building. It does not fire when the problem
and its evidence are already established and the job is to write the scope — that is
`prd-and-stories`.
## Procedure
1. **Split the request into solution and problem.** Write the request verbatim, then write the
sentence under it: who is trying to do what, and what happens today instead. If you cannot
write that second sentence from what you were given, that gap is the finding — say so before
going further.
2. **Name the person and the job.** A named role doing a specific task on a specific occasion
("a support agent closing a ticket after a refund"), not a segment. Ask who is *not* affected
too — a problem everyone allegedly has usually belongs to nobody in particular.
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Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mt2zmjly3cx5livk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/product-discovery
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/167ba3bb9e5f3cfdc0269e68532dadb1dbd584930bfc44bc87016226736fd540
Your agent does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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