discovery-interviews-surveys

discovery-interviews-surveys is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nicepkg/ai-workflow. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,672 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for interviewing users and running surveys to learn about their problems, needs, workflows, and reactions to product ideas. It explains jobs-to-be-done, meaning what users are trying to accomplish and why.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before building to validate ideas, discover unmet needs, test positioning, understand willingness to pay, prioritize features, and investigate churn after launch.
Why use it?
It replaces assumptions about customers with evidence from the people who use or might use a product. This helps uncover pain points, workarounds, adoption barriers, and reasons for leaving.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/discovery-interviews-surveys
Any agent
npx skills add nicepkg/ai-workflow --skill discovery-interviews-surveys
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/ai-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,672 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00077 $0.02672
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01336
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00534
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00267

Measured yesterday against content hash da617d1d2555, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discovery-interviews-surveys scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

workflows/product-manager-workflow/.claude/skills/discovery-interviews-surveys/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Discovery Interviews & Surveys

Table of Contents

Purpose

Discovery Interviews & Surveys help you learn from users systematically to:

  • Validate assumptions before investing in building
  • Discover real problems users experience (not just stated needs)
  • Understand jobs-to-be-done (what users "hire" your product to do)
  • Identify pain points and current workarounds
  • Test concepts and positioning with target audience
  • Uncover unmet needs that users may not articulate directly

This moves from guessing to evidence-based product decisions.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Pre-build validation: Testing product ideas before development
  • Problem discovery: Understanding user pain points and workflows
  • Jobs-to-be-done research: Identifying hiring/firing triggers and desired outcomes
  • Market research: Understanding target audience, competitive landscape, willingness to pay
  • Concept testing: Validating positioning, messaging, feature prioritization
  • Post-launch learning: Understanding adoption barriers, churn reasons, expansion opportunities
  • Customer satisfaction research: Identifying satisfaction/dissatisfaction drivers
  • UX research: Mental models, task flows, usability issues
  • Voice of customer: Gathering qualitative insights for roadmap prioritization

Trigger phrases: "user research", "customer interviews", "surveys", "discovery", "validation study", "voice of customer", "jobs-to-be-done", "JTBD", "user needs"

What Is It?

Discovery Interviews & Surveys provide structured approaches to learn from users while avoiding common biases (leading questions, confirmation bias, selection bias).

Key components:

  1. Interview guides: Open-ended questions that reveal problems and context
  2. Survey instruments: Scaled questions for quantitative validation at scale
  3. JTBD probes: Questions focused on hiring/firing triggers and desired outcomes
  4. Bias-avoidance techniques: Past behavior focus, "show me" requests, avoiding hypotheticals
  5. Analysis frameworks: Thematic coding, affinity mapping, statistical analysis

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 211 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A da617d1d2555

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discovery-interviews-surveys is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/ai-workflow (282 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,672 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.