discovery-interview-guide
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.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill discovery-interview-guide --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Discovery Interview Guide Skill Design interviews that surface genuine insight — not validation of what you already believe. Every guide follows a story-based, past-behaviour-focused structure. ## Core Principles 1. **Never ask about the future.** "Would you use X?" tells you nothing. "Tell me about the last time you did X" tells you everything. 2. **Interview for behaviour, not opinion.** Opinions are cheap. Behaviour is evidence. 3. **The 5 Whys.** Every surface answer is a door. Keep opening doors. 4. **Confirm the problem before exploring the solution.** Never show a prototype until you've confirmed the pain exists unprompted. ## Interview Structure (60 minutes standard) ### 1. Warm-Up (5 min) Build rapport. Get them talking. Don't discuss the topic yet. - "Tell me a bit about your role and what a typical week looks like for you." - "What tools do you rely on most day-to-day?" ### 2. Context Setting (10 min) Understand their world before diving into the problem space. - "Walk me through how you currently [handle the domain area]." - "What does that process look like from start to finish?" - "Who else is involved when you do this?" ### 3. Problem Exploration (25 min) — THE COR
- Core Principles
- Interview Structure (60 minutes standard)
- 1. Warm-Up (5 min)
- 2. Context Setting (10 min)
- 3. Problem Exploration (25 min) — THE CORE
- 4. Current Solutions (10 min)
- 5. Wrap-Up (10 min)
- Output Format
- Discovery Interview Guide — [Topic] — [Date]
- Required Inputs
- Deeper Materials
- Scoring Rubric (0–40)
- Quality Checks
- Guidelines
What does the discovery-interview-guide skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill discovery-interview-guide --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.