athene-product-discovery

Topics in the source

• Athene: Product Discovery
• Check for an already-tracked repo first
• Discover the intent
• Map and score opportunities
• Generate and choose options
• Scope deliberately
• Produce the handoff
• Product-quality checks

Use this skill for product brainstorming, feature discovery, strategy/scope conversations, and planning a new product or capability. Skip it for a precise, low-risk task that can be completed directly, or for a specification the user has already approved. The goal is shared understanding, not an interrogation or a theatrical specification. Make the user's product judgment stronger; don't substitute this skill's preferences for it. Before starting discovery from zero, look for .athene/state.md at the repo root. Not found: this is a genuinely fresh idea with no Athene footprint yet. Continue below. Found: read all four sections before doing anything else — don't just confirm the file exists and barge into the flow below. Check Active skill: Anything other than athene-product-discovery: this skill doesn't own the repo right now. Read and follow whichever skill file Active skill names instead — stop and say so if that file isn't packaged where this skill is installed. Don't start discovery or touch state another skill owns. athene-product-discovery: don't restart discovery from scratch just because this skill was invoked directly. Ask instead, conversationally: "Is this a new feature o

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