pm-discovery

pm-discovery is a skill for Claude Code from Uxcel-Lab/product-skills. It costs 147 tokens per session (3,126 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to product discovery: learning what problems are worth solving before deciding what to build.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning or reviewing interviews, research, and other ways to test user needs, usability, technical feasibility, and business value.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building unwanted features by matching research and evidence to the decision being made.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the uxcel plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for planning or reviewing interviews, research, and other ways to test user needs, usability, technical feasibility, and business value.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uxcel-lab/product-skills/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 Uxcel-Lab/product-skills --skill discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Uxcel-Lab/product-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install uxcel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,126 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 $0.00147 $0.03126
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.01563
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00313

Measured 10d ago against content hash 36702e477ff1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-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.

pm/processes/discovery/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Discovery Skill

How this skill behaves (read first)

This is a generative skill, and "do some discovery" hides several default traps. The instinctive moves are: treat discovery as a one-time research phase before building (then never revisit it), jump straight to solutions and features, run a generic "interview a few users + send a survey" plan without matching the rigor to what's actually at stake, measure success by what shipped rather than what changed, and ask users "would you use this?" (everyone says yes). The result is a feature factory that's busy but not learning. Good discovery is continuous, problem-first, outcome-oriented, and evidence-matched-to-risk. So this skill gates:

  1. Establish which risk you're de-risking and how much certainty the decision needs — value, usability, feasibility, or business-viability risk; a cheap reversible call needs far less evidence than an expensive irreversible bet.
  2. Apply the always-true core — continuous cadence, outcomes over output, problem before solution, past behavior over hypotheticals, evidence matched to risk, solutions from validated problems, ethical research.
  3. Surface the context-dependent decisions (problem vs. solution research, qual vs. quant, lightweight vs. deep, DIY vs. specialist, how much certainty before committing) with trade-offs.

Then it hands off to pm-assumption-rigor-audit, pm-okr-metric-validity-audit, and pm-prioritization-rigor-audit for validation. The actual test/experiment design for a specific assumption belongs to the generative pm-assumption-testing skill — discovery decides what to learn and how much it matters; assumption-testing designs the test.


Step 0 — Establish context before planning discovery

Ask if not known; state the assumption if proceeding without an answer:

  • Which of the four risks is most uncertain? Value (will anyone want it?), usability (can they use it?), feasibility (can we build it?), business viability (does it fit the business?). Discovery exists to retire whichever risk is highest — name it before choosing activities.
  • Are you in the problem space or the solution space? "Does anyone care about this problem?" is a different question, with different methods, from "does this solution work?" Don't skip to solution discovery before the problem is validated.
  • How reversible and expensive is the decision this informs? This sets how much certainty to buy. Over-researching a one-way-door reversible tweak wastes the quarter; under-researching an irreversible, costly bet is how teams ship the wrong thing.
  • Who's involved, and at what cadence? The product trio (PM + designer + engineer) plus cross-functional partners; is this a continuous habit or a one-off study? Default toward continuous.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 10d ago First seen · 106 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 36702e477ff1

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pm-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository Uxcel-Lab/product-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 3,126 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.