| name | woos-product-research |
| description | Research the market, competitors, feasibility, and existing solutions to produce a product discovery research document. |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| author | Hermes Profile |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"hermes":{"tags":["product","discovery","research","competitive-analysis"],"related_skills":["woos-product-discovery"]}} |
Product Research
Output Language
- Author all user-facing prose (narratives, findings, summaries) in the user's most recent input language (e.g. if the user is writing in Chinese, write the PRD body, review findings, and summaries in Chinese).
- Keep these tokens verbatim in English regardless of the user's language, because they are contract identifiers consumed by other skills and gates:
- Verdict tokens:
PASS, REQUEST_CHANGES, BLOCKED, NOT_RUN
- Severity tokens:
critical, high, medium, low, warning
- Tag tokens:
[ASSUMPTION: ...], [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: ...], [NEEDS INPUT: ...]
- Phase / dimension IDs:
P0 … P11, P2a, Phase A, Phase B
- Shape values:
internal-tool, single-operator, consumer-product, multi-stakeholder, CLI
- P0 rating values:
strong, adequate, thin, broken
- Section headings declared in templates (e.g.
## Background, ## Functional Requirements, ## Assumptions Index) — translations break downstream structural checks
- Field labels inside templates (e.g.
**Consequences (testable):**, **Out of Scope:**, **User value:**, Given … When … Then …)
- Code, file paths, IDs, and quoted PRD excerpts stay in their original form.
Purpose
Produce the research document that discovery uses to justify roadmap and architecture choices.
Required Load Set (mandatory)
references/framework-market-research.md
references/framework-competitive-analysis.md
ideas/<slug>/00-idea-capture.md
If any required file is not loaded, return BLOCKED.
Output
Required Coverage
- Market landscape
- Competitive analysis
- Technical feasibility
- Existing solutions or reusable components
- Risks and unknowns
Research must cite sources and include a recommendation.