Discovery Interview Prep

Plan customer discovery interviews with the right goal, segment, constraints, and method. Use when preparing interviews for problem validation, churn research, or new product ideas.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill discovery-interview-prep

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills.git /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills/skills/discovery-interview-prep ~/.claude/skills/discovery-interview-prep

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

## Purpose
Guide product managers through preparing for customer discovery interviews by asking adaptive questions about research goals, customer segments, constraints, and methodologies. Use this to design effective interview plans, craft targeted questions, avoid common biases, and maximize learning from limited customer access—ensuring discovery interviews yield actionable insights rather than confirmation bias or surface-level feedback.

This is not a script generator—it's a strategic prep process that outputs a tailored interview plan with methodology, question framework, and success criteria.

## Input

**Works best with:** Your research goal — what you need to learn from customers.
**Also useful:** Customer segment, access constraints (how many interviews, by when), and any hypotheses you're carrying in.

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 skill opens by asking your primary goal for the interviews, then narrows with follow-ups.

**Example invocation:** `Prep interviews to understand why enterprise customers churn after 6 months — I can get 5 interviews in 2 weeks.`

## Key Concepts

### The Discovery Interview Prep Flow
An interactive process that:
1. Gathers product/problem context (marketing materials, assumptions)

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: discovery-interview-prep
Repository: deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills
Path: skills/discovery-interview-prep/SKILL.md
Repo updated: 16 October 2026
Listed in: BehiSecc/awesome-claude-skills, heilcheng/awesome-agent-skills, VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills

FAQ

What does the Discovery Interview Prep skill do?

Plan customer discovery interviews with the right goal, segment, constraints, and method. Use when preparing interviews for problem validation, churn research, or new product ideas.

How do I install the Discovery Interview Prep skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill discovery-interview-prep. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Discovery Interview Prep popular?

It lives in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, which has 7,800 GitHub stars and 940 forks, and is included in 3 curated skill lists.