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user-interview is agent-read markdown (skill) from rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os: Build an interview guide from a research question, run the session on a note sheet that keeps facts apart from compliments, and turn each session into an evidence note. Use when a discovery question needs answers from real users, when Gate 1 cites fewer than five conversations, or when a persona or job statement is still marked assumption. Takes the research questions, a segment, and the team's current beliefs; returns the guide, one note sheet and one evidence note per session, and a handoff to.

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# User Interview: questions that get facts, notes that survive the week

Interviews fail quietly. The guide asks whether people would use the idea, the room fills with compliments, the notes blend what was said with what the interviewer hoped, and a week later nobody can tell a pattern from a polite participant. This skill builds a guide that cannot pitch, runs the session so facts and compliments are counted apart, and files each session as evidence a gate can check.

## Files this skill drives

- [../../templates/discovery/interview-guide.md](../../templates/discovery/interview-guide.md), one per study
- [../../templates/discovery/interview-notes.md](../../templates/discovery/interview-notes.md), one per session
- [../../templates/discovery/user-research-plan.md](../../templates/discovery/user-research-plan.md), sections 1 to 5
- [../../templates/discovery/evidence-note.md](../../templates/discovery/evidence-note.md), one per session
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rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

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