How to use Discovery Interview Prep in your AI agent

What you'll get

This skill walks you through designing effective customer discovery interviews step-by-step. It helps you define your research goal (like understanding why customers churn or validating a product idea), pick the right people to talk to, and build a question framework that avoids common biases. You'll get a complete interview plan ready to use with real customers.

Step 1 — Get the skill source URL

The Discovery Interview Prep skill lives at:

Step 2 — Add it to your AI agent

Copy one of these prompts and paste it into your AI tool. The agent will fetch and install the skill for you.

Add the agent skill from https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-interview-prep to my project.

Install this agent skill: https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-interview-prep

Add this skill to .codex/skills/: https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-interview-prep

Add the skill at https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-interview-prep to my .gemini/skills/ directory.

Install this agent skill from https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-interview-prep

Add this skill: https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/main/skills/discovery-interview-prep

Step 3 — Try these prompts

Once the skill is installed, ask your AI things like:

• Validating a new product idea and need to confirm the problem is real
• Investigating why customers are churning or not activating on key features
• Prepare for customer development interviews but aren't sure where to start
• Understand what jobs customers are trying to get done before building features

What this skill does

• Asks adaptive questions about your research goals, target customers, and constraints
• Recommends the right interview methodology based on your product stage and what you need to learn
• Generates a tailored question framework with bias warnings and success criteria
• Helps you avoid leading questions and confirmation bias during customer interviews
• Outputs a ready-to-use interview guide for qualitative customer research