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Validate whether the captured problem is real, painful, frequent, and worth pursuing before broader discovery work begins.
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Produce the high-level architecture overview used by downstream product design and engineering.
Independent high-level architecture review gate for discovery.
Capture and structure raw ideas through guided interview or quick note. Produces a structured idea document ready for research or PRD pass. Focuses purely on product intent — no technical decisions.
Entry-point product workflow from raw idea to validated product design artifacts. Stops at reviewed PRD readiness and does not include engineering implementation.
Write the per-feature PRD from the ranked requirements contract using the mandatory PRD template.
Dedicated analyze gate for PRD and UI brief consistency. Runs script extraction first, then semantic review with evidence-backed findings.
| name | woos-problem-validation |
| description | Validate whether the captured problem is real, painful, frequent, and worth pursuing before broader discovery work begins. |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| author | Hermes Profile |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"hermes":{"tags":["product","discovery","validation","research"],"related_skills":["woos-product-discovery"]}} |
PASS, REQUEST_CHANGES, BLOCKED, NOT_RUNcritical, high, medium, low, warning[ASSUMPTION: ...], [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: ...], [NEEDS INPUT: ...]P0 … P11, P2a, Phase A, Phase Binternal-tool, single-operator, consumer-product, multi-stakeholder, CLIstrong, adequate, thin, broken## Background, ## Functional Requirements, ## Assumptions Index) — translations break downstream structural checks**Consequences (testable):**, **Out of Scope:**, **User value:**, Given … When … Then …)Decide whether the captured problem should proceed, pivot, or park.
references/framework-customer-pain-points.mdideas/<slug>/00-idea-capture.mdIf any required file is not loaded, return BLOCKED.
ideas/<slug>/00-idea-capture.md → append ## Problem ValidationThe output must conclude with one of:
PROCEEDPIVOTPARK