discovery-researchlisted

## Purpose Produce a **Research Synthesis Brief** -- a structured, evidence-graded synthesis of user research from multiple sources that separates validated findings from hypotheses, grades every claim by evidence quality, and connects insights to product decisions. The core question this skill answers: "What does the evidence actually say?" This is not a research plan or a methodology guide -- it is a reasoning engine that takes raw research inputs and produces findings a PM can act on, with explicit confidence levels and evidence gaps that drive the next research cycle. ## When to Use / When NOT to Use **Use this skill when:** - Synthesizing findings from multiple user interviews into a coherent picture - Evaluating whether research evidence is strong enough to support a product decision - Running a discovery sprint and need to structure findings as they accumulate - Analyzing qualitative data (interview transcripts, support tickets, forum posts) for patterns - Building research-backed feature hypotheses before committing engineering resources - Resolving conflicting signals across different research sources (surveys say X, interviews say Y, behavioral data says Z) - Assessing what you still do NOT know and where evidence is dangerously thin **Do NOT use this skill when:** - You need competitive market analysis (-> Competitive & Market Analysis skill -- that is market-side structural analysis, this is demand-side primary research) - You need to design metrics or experim