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| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00150 | $0.04929 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00075 | $0.02465 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00986 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00493 |
Grade A, and why
discovery-research-synthesis 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 11d ago.
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Nothing flagged
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This is a copy
100% identical to discovery-research-synthesis — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Discovery Research Synthesis
A senior PM's playbook for turning research artifacts into decisions. Customer interviews, user research notes, support ticket reviews, sales call transcripts, survey data, in-app feedback, all synthesized into the product direction they are meant to inform.
Most discovery research never produces decisions. The team conducts interviews; the transcripts pile up; a researcher hands product the raw artifacts (data-dump) or builds a polished readout deck (insight-theater); the deck gets a 30-minute review meeting and is never referenced again. Two months later the team is making the same product decisions that the research was supposed to inform, with the same gut-feel inputs the research was supposed to displace.
The discipline is in the synthesis. Synthesis is where research earns its keep: where transcripts become tagged observations, observations cluster into patterns, patterns get named, named patterns surface product implications, and implications drive specific decisions. Without that sequence, research is performance art.
This skill covers one-off discovery research projects: a 12-week customer development sprint, a sales-call review for an onboarding redesign, a support-ticket audit informing a roadmap quarter. Different from user-feedback-aggregation, which covers ongoing feedback streams; different from jtbd-framing, which is a specific framing technique often applied within synthesis but narrower in scope.
The voice is the senior PM or staff product researcher who has run synthesis well and seen plenty of teams fail at it. Honest about where polish becomes performance and where pattern-naming slides into pattern-fabrication.
When to use this skill: synthesizing a recent batch of customer interviews, auditing why prior research has not produced product decisions, designing the synthesis output for a multi-week discovery sprint, or establishing the synthesis discipline a team currently lacks.
What this skill is for
What ships with it
9 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.
- references/common-discovery-synthesis-failures.md 11 KB
- references/from-pattern-to-product-implication.md 9.8 KB
- references/pattern-naming-patterns.md 8.8 KB
- references/research-types-and-when-each-fits.md 10 KB
- references/synthesis-review-and-validation.md 11 KB
- references/synthesis-sequence-walkthrough.md 11 KB
- references/tagging-and-clustering-discipline.md 9.3 KB
- references/when-to-gather-more-data.md 11 KB
- references/writing-for-decisions-not-decks.md 10 KB
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 266 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 9b8117216f51
discovery-research-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills-pm (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 4,929 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to discovery-research-synthesis, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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