product-discovery

product-discovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tmj-90/gaffer. It costs 64 tokens per session (931 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A product-discovery guide for checking whether a product idea solves a real user problem before committing development time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map desired outcomes, user opportunities, solution ideas, and experiments, and to assess desirability, business viability, technical feasibility, and usability risks.
Why use it?
It separates evidence about user needs from assumptions and tests risky ideas cheaply before they become expensive software work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to map desired outcomes, user opportunities, solution ideas, and experiments, and to assess desirability, business viability, technical feasibility, and usability risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmj-90/gaffer/product-discovery
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 tmj-90/gaffer --skill product-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmj-90/gaffer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 931 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.
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 $0.00064 $0.00931
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00465
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00093

Measured 9d ago against content hash c0fb08610b01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-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 9d 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.

runner/skills/product-discovery/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

De-risk product bets before building

Discovery's job is to fail fast and cheaply — identify wrong assumptions before they're baked into shipped software.

Opportunity Solution Tree (Teresa Torres)

Desired outcome (metric to move)
  └── Opportunity (unmet user need / pain / desire)
       └── Solution idea (intervention)
            └── Experiment (cheapest test)

Rules:

  • Opportunities come from user evidence — interviews, support tickets, analytics — not internal opinions.
  • One desired outcome per tree. Multiple outcomes = no prioritisation.
  • Solutions are hypotheses; experiments are the cheapest way to test each hypothesis.
  • The tree is a living document — update as evidence accumulates.

Assumption mapping

For each solution idea, map its assumptions across four risk dimensions:

Dimension Question Example assumption
Desirability Do users want this? "Users will pay $10/month for this feature"
Viability Does this create sustainable business value? "This will reduce churn by 5%"
Feasibility Can we build this? "The API supports the required event granularity"
Usability Can users use this without training? "Users will understand the new onboarding flow without docs"

Score each assumption: Risk (1–3) × Certainty (1–3 inverse — low certainty = high score). Highest scores = test first.

Validation methods (choose by cost)

Method Cost Validates
Desk research Hours Market size, competitor landscape, existing solutions
Customer interview (problem) Days Pain existence, frequency, severity, willingness to solve
Fake-door test Days Demand signal (click-through to a "coming soon" page)
Prototype usability test Days–week Usability, core interaction
Wizard-of-Oz / concierge Week Desirability + willingness to pay without building the feature
A/B experiment Week–months Behavioural impact on a metric

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 81 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A c0fb08610b01

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product-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmj-90/gaffer (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 931 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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