| name | Discovery Workflow |
| description | Full Continuous Discovery Habits pipeline orchestrator. Walks through all stages from initiative setup through assumptions testing, picking up where you left off.
|
| argument-hint | <initiative-name> |
Discovery Workflow
Orchestrate the full Continuous Discovery Habits pipeline for an initiative. This meta-skill walks through all stages in order, checking your initiative folder state to pick up where you left off.
Pipeline stages
1. Setup Initiative
2. Conduct Interviews -> Create Snapshots
3. Synthesize Patterns
4. Create Opportunities
5. Generate Solutions
6. Identify & Test Assumptions
7. Create PRD
8. Generate Tasks
How it works
When invoked with an initiative name, this workflow:
- Checks initiative state: Looks for
initiatives/[name]/ folder
- If it doesn't exist, runs
/setup-initiative first
- Scans each stage folder to determine progress:
user-interviews/snapshots/ - Any snapshot files?user-interviews/synthesis/ - Any synthesis files?opportunities/ - Any opportunity files?solutions/ - Any solution files?assumptions/ - Any assumption files?prd/ - Any PRD files?tasks/ - Any task files?
- Identifies the next stage and tells you what to do next
- Invokes the appropriate skill for the current stage
Stage detection logic
| Stage | Condition to advance | Next skill |
|---|
| 1. Setup | initiatives/[name]/ exists | /interview-snapshot |
| 2. Snapshots | >= 3 snapshot files | /synthesize-interviews |
| 3. Synthesis | >= 1 synthesis file | /create-opportunities |
| 4. Opportunities | >= 1 opportunities file | /generate-solutions |
| 5. Solutions | >= 1 solutions file | /test-assumptions |
| 6. Assumptions | >= 1 assumptions file with test results | /prd |
| 7. PRD | >= 1 PRD file | /generate-tasks |
| 8. Tasks | Task list exists | /process-tasks |
Usage
/discovery-workflow mobile-app-redesign
The workflow will:
- Check if
initiatives/mobile-app-redesign/ exists
- Scan all stage folders
- Report current progress
- Suggest and run the next step
Resumability
This workflow is entirely file-system based. No database or state file needed. You can:
- Stop at any point and resume later
- Skip stages if you've done work outside this workflow
- Re-run any stage to iterate
Progress report format
## Discovery Progress: [Initiative Name]
| Stage | Status | Files |
|-------|--------|-------|
| Setup | Done | README.md |
| Snapshots | Done (4 files) | snapshot-*.md |
| Synthesis | Done (1 file) | synthesis-v1.md |
| Opportunities | In Progress | - |
| Solutions | Not Started | - |
| Assumptions | Not Started | - |
| PRD | Not Started | - |
| Tasks | Not Started | - |
**Next step:** Create opportunities from your synthesis.
Run `/create-opportunities [initiative-name]` to continue.
Follow the writing standards in _shared/writing-standards.md for all outputs.
