continuous-discovery

continuous-discovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RefoundAI/lenny-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to continuous product discovery: regularly speaking with customers and testing what they need before building software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan interviews and demos, map unmet needs, involve the product team in discovery, and test ideas with prototypes or observed behavior.
Why use it?
It helps teams replace occasional, assumption-based feedback with repeated evidence about real customer problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan interviews and demos, map unmet needs, involve the product team in discovery, and test ideas with prototypes or observed behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/continuous-discovery
About the project

Lenny Skills is a collection of product-management and engineering workflows for Claude Code and other AI agents, covering areas such as strategy, research, planning, shipping, growth, and hiring. Each skill gives an agent specialized guidance, frameworks, checklists, or templates for product work, and the catalogue contains many of these skills.

RefoundAI/lenny-skills · 1,315 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill continuous-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,543 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00029 $0.01543
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00772
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00154

Measured 10d ago against content hash f5cccd8109a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

continuous-discovery 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 10d ago.

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.

skills/continuous-discovery/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Continuous Product Discovery

Turn customer feedback from a periodic chore into a high-frequency engine for product decisions.

Help the user with continuous product discovery using insights from 23 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

How to Help

  1. Audit current proximity - Evaluate the frequency and quality of direct team-to-user interactions and identify existing gatekeepers.
  2. Define discovery rituals - Help set up recurring cadences for interviews, demo days, and support shifts that involve the entire product trio.
  3. Structure the opportunity space - Guide the translation of raw feedback into a visual map of unmet needs, pain points, and desires.
  4. Accelerate evidence gathering - Recommend lightweight methods for testing assumptions through prototypes and behavior mapping before committing to full builds.

Core Principles

Distinguish needs from solutions

Teresa Torres: "I can tell you that opportunity is an unmet need pain point or desire, and that's great. But I can tell you that 98% of people that write opportunities write them as solutions. So we tend to just really struggle with this distinction between the problem space and the solution space."

True discovery requires defining every opportunity strictly as an unmet customer need rather than a pre-conceived feature idea.

Remove layers between builders and users

Brian Tolkin: "Talking to customers every single day like one-on-one onboarding drivers responding to support tickets, there's no centralized support team, there was no closer to the customer, right? And so I think that foundation actually for really understanding what moves the business and being super close to the customer actually is a pretty good foundation for them going on to say, okay, what do we actually want to build in a more scalable technology way?"

Deep empathy is built by eliminating centralized filters and having product teams engage directly in onboarding and support.

Integrate discovery into execution

Itamar Gilad: "Google, was what I call an evidence guided company. So essentially it put a high premium on focusing on customers, coming up with a lot of ideas on looking at the data, looking at how these ideas actually worked out. They weren't shy about launching betas and things that were very rough and incomplete and learning from that and then they expected people to take action based on the results."

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 10d ago First seen · 95 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A f5cccd8109a4

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continuous-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository RefoundAI/lenny-skills (1,315 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,543 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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