| 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"]}} |
Problem Validation
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
Decide whether the captured problem should proceed, pivot, or park.
Required Load Set (mandatory)
references/framework-customer-pain-points.md
ideas/<slug>/00-idea-capture.md
If any required file is not loaded, return BLOCKED.
Output
ideas/<slug>/00-idea-capture.md → append ## Problem Validation
Required Decision
The output must conclude with one of:
Must Answer
- Is this a real problem?
- How frequently does it occur?
- How painful is it?
- How many people have it?
- Are people already paying time or money to solve it?