discovery-workflow

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:

1. Checks initiative state: Looks for initiatives/[name]/ folder
   • If it doesn't exist, runs /setup-initiative first
2. 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?
3. Identifies the next stage and tells you what to do next
4. 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.