Product & Innovation skills for your AI agent.
Ten skills covering the full arc of product work: deciding what to build, deciding whether it worked, and getting people to come back. The Mom Test and Jobs to Be Done handle evidence — how to ask, and what to listen for. Continuous Discovery, Design Sprint and Lean Startup handle the shape of learning: a weekly cadence, a facilitated week, or a designed experiment with the pivot threshold written down first. Lean Analytics picks the number. Inspired and The 37signals Way handle how the work gets organized and capped. Improve Retention and Hooked UX handle what happens after people arrive.
What changes is where your agent starts. Asked to “plan the next quarter,” an unequipped agent produces a feature list with dates. With these it asks what outcome the quarter is accountable for, maps opportunities beneath it, marks which of your interview questions begin with “would you,” names the one metric that would actually change a decision, and tells you the roadmap item everyone agreed on has no stated hypothesis behind it.
02 Choosing
Which product skill answers the question I’m stuck on?
Pick by the question you can’t currently answer. Ten questions, ten answers.
Discovery stacks best as a trio — The Mom Test, Jobs to Be Done, Continuous Discovery — because they answer how to ask, what to listen for, and how to keep doing it.
Pair whichever you pick with analytics, or you will learn a great deal and improve nothing.
03 The ten skills
All ten Product & Innovation skills.
Each installs on its own, in about thirty seconds, and works in any agent that reads the open agentskills.io format.
04 Used by
Where these ten
get sequenced.
Guides and guided journeys that run Product & Innovation skills alongside the rest of the library — in the order that stops you fixing the wrong thing first.
05 Questions
Before you install.
The four we get asked most about this stack. The generic ones — pricing, licence, agents — live on the library page.
Ten is a lot. Which three cover the most ground?
The Mom Test, Jobs to Be Done and Lean Analytics. The first two stop you building confidently on compliments, and the third stops you celebrating a number that only goes up. That trio spans the two failures that waste the most time: shipping something nobody wanted, and not noticing. Everything else in the category refines how you run that loop — as a five-day sprint, a weekly habit, a six-week bet, or an org design.
Do Hooked UX and Improve Retention do the same thing?
They diagnose retention differently, and picking the wrong one wastes a quarter. Improve Retention uses B=MAP and assumes the behavior failed on motivation, ability or prompt — usually ability, so the fix is to shrink the action. Hooked UX assumes people would return if the product gave them a reason, and builds a trigger–action–variable reward–investment loop. If users want to come back and can’t, use Improve Retention. If they can and don’t, use Hooked UX.
I’m a solo founder with no product team. Which of these apply?
Most of them, with one exception. Inspired is written about product organizations — empowered teams, product leadership, discovery-and-delivery structure — and there’s little to apply when you are the whole team. The Mom Test, Jobs to Be Done, Lean Startup and Lean Analytics work at any size. The 37signals Way is arguably better for one person than for a company: appetite instead of estimates, and a hard stop on scope.
Where do these end and the Create an App journey begin?
The journey runs validation and architecture together in a fixed sequence, which is what you want when starting from an idea. These skills are for a live product with a specific unanswered question — week-two retention dropped, a feature everyone requested went unused, the roadmap has no stated outcomes. You reach for one framework, apply it, and get back to work rather than starting a phased program.
Every skill installs alone. The library installs together.
Install all ten, or just one.
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