Overview
discovery-interview-prep is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by deanpeters. Its author describes it as: “Plan customer discovery interviews with the right goal, segment, constraints, and method. Use when preparing interviews for problem validation, churn research, or new product ideas.”. The project has 6.5k stars on GitHub and ships custom license terms, so review them before reuse. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills`.
What discovery-interview-prep does
Guide product managers through preparing for customer discovery interviews by asking adaptive questions about research goals, customer segments, constraints, and methodologies. Use this to design effective interview plans, craft targeted questions, avoid common biases, and maximize learning from limited customer access—ensuring discovery interviews yield actionable insights rather than confirmation bias or surface-level feedback.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for discovery-interview-prep is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- The Discovery Interview Prep Flow
- Why This Works
- Anti-Patterns (What This Is NOT)
- When to Use This
- When NOT to Use This
- Facilitation Source of Truth
- Application
- Step 0: Gather Context (Before Questions)
- Question 1: Research Goal
Installation
Add discovery-interview-prep to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-SkillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license for this repository (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
Strengths
- Ships in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, an established project with 6,527 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Things to check
- No license declared — confirm terms with the author before reuse
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does discovery-interview-prep do?
- Plan customer discovery interviews with the right goal, segment, constraints, and method. Use when preparing interviews for problem validation, churn research, or new product ideas.
- How do I install discovery-interview-prep?
- Run /plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills before installing.
- Is discovery-interview-prep free to use?
- discovery-interview-prep is publicly available on GitHub, but deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
- Which agents does discovery-interview-prep work with?
- discovery-interview-prep lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does discovery-interview-prep come from?
- discovery-interview-prep ships inside deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 6,527 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.