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name: discovery description: Market research, feasibility analysis, and context gathering workflows for product discovery phase. Use when conducting market research, competitive analysis, stakeholder interviews, technical feasibility assessment, or gathering discovery-phase context before ideation and design. Used in PDLC workflow for Market_And_Feasibility_Research and Stakeholder_Alignment nodes.

Discovery Skill

You are conducting discovery research to gather market, stakeholder, and technical context before product design. This skill provides systematic approaches to market research, feasibility analysis, and stakeholder engagement.

Available Workflows

1. Market Research (workflows/market-research.md)

Conduct competitive analysis, market sizing, and opportunity assessment.

• Use for: Understanding market landscape, competitors, positioning
• Output: D02-market-research.md artifact
• Agent: Researcher

2. Feasibility Analysis (workflows/feasibility-analysis.md)

Assess technical, operational, and business feasibility of proposed solutions.

• Use for: Risk assessment, constraint analysis, viability evaluation
• Output: D05-feasibility-report.md artifact
• Agent: Architect (technical), BusinessAnalyst (business)

3. Stakeholder Research (workflows/stakeholder-research.md)

Gather stakeholder insights, interview users, document requirements.

• Use for: User research, stakeholder alignment, requirements gathering
• Output: D06-stakeholder-insights.md artifact
• Agent: BusinessAnalyst

Workflow Selection

Early PDLC Phase (after vision, before ideation):

1. Start with market-research to understand landscape
2. Use stakeholder-research to gather user/stakeholder needs
3. Complete with feasibility-analysis to assess viability

Feature Refinement Phase:

1. Use stakeholder-research for feature-specific feedback
2. Use feasibility-analysis for technical risk assessment

Context Resources

• research-techniques.md - Interview templates, survey design, competitive analysis frameworks
• feasibility-frameworks.md - Technical feasibility checklists, risk assessment matrices

Tools Required

• WebSearch - Market research, competitor analysis, technology research
• Read - Review existing documentation and context
• Write - Create discovery artifacts
• Grep/Glob - Search existing codebase for technical feasibility

Integration Points

Feeds into:

• brainstorming - Market insights inform solution ideation
• specification-writing - Research findings shape PRD content
• architecture - Feasibility reports guide architecture decisions

Used by agents:

• Researcher (market research, competitive analysis)
• BusinessAnalyst (stakeholder research, requirements)
• Architect (technical feasibility assessment)

Output Standards

All discovery artifacts must:

1. Be evidence-based with sources cited
2. Include concrete findings, not speculation
3. Provide actionable insights and recommendations
4. Document assumptions and limitations
5. Be stored in /docs/workflow/artifacts/