# Continuous Discovery

> Implements Teresa Torres' continuous discovery habits for weekly customer contact, opportunity solution trees, and assumption testing. Use when building discovery processes, conducting user research, validating assumptions, or establishing product trio workflows.

- Skill: `newmindsgroup/continuous-discovery` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add newmindsgroup/continuous-discovery`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/newmindsgroup/continuous-discovery/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Product & Planning
- License: MIT
- Author: newmindsgroup (https://skillmd.com/u/newmindsgroup)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/newmindsgroup/continuous-discovery

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# Continuous Discovery Habits

Implements Teresa Torres' continuous discovery habits for weekly customer contact, opportunity solution trees, and assumption testing. Use when building discovery processes, conducting user research, validating assumptions, or establishing product trio workflows.

## When to Use
- The request matches the skill description: Implements Teresa Torres' continuous discovery habits for weekly customer contact, opportunity solution trees, and assumption testing. Use when building discovery processes, conducting user research, validating assumptions, or establishing product trio workflows.
- The task needs the implementation patterns, examples, validation checks, or edge cases listed in the topic map.
- The work would benefit from the complete guidance preserved in `references/full-guidance.md`.

## Core Workflow
1. Confirm the request matches this skill's trigger, scope, and risk profile.
2. Use the topic map to identify the relevant pattern, checklist, or example before writing detailed guidance or code.
3. Load `references/full-guidance.md` when implementation details, examples, anti-patterns, validation checks, or edge cases are needed.
4. Apply only the relevant guidance instead of loading or repeating the entire reference by default.
5. Verify the result against any validation checks, limitations, security notes, or platform constraints in the reference.

## Topic Map
- When This Skill Activates
- Core Frameworks
- Continuous Discovery Habits (Source: Teresa Torres)
- The Product Trio
- Opportunity Solution Trees
- Interview Snapshot
- Assumption Testing
- Decision Trees
- Should I Build This Feature?
- How Should I Test This Assumption?
- Action Templates
- Template: Weekly Discovery Plan
- Outcome We're Pursuing
- This Week's Focus
- Discovery Activities (Minimum 1 per week)
- Monday-Wednesday: Research
- Thursday: Synthesis
- Friday: Planning

## Reference Map
- `references/full-guidance.md` preserves the complete original guidance, including examples and detailed edge cases.

## Progressive Loading
Keep this `SKILL.md` as the compact routing and workflow entrypoint. Load the reference file only when the user task requires the deeper implementation material.