Interview Hypotheses
A third-party skill by Jason Cohen from A Smart Bear. It is step 2 of the Customer Interviews workshop (a six-step method for turning customer conversations into decisions). It reads your goal questions, asks what you believe about each, and sharpens vague beliefs into claims you can test. It writes HYPOTHESES.md. It reads GOALS.md from step 1, so run asb-interview-goals first or paste your goals.
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What it does
Write down your current best guesses as testable statements, so interviews can prove them wrong.
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- Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear
- Category
- Research
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Interview Hypotheses
A third-party skill by Jason Cohen from A Smart Bear. It is step 2 of the Customer Interviews workshop (a six-step method for turning customer conversations into decisions). It reads your goal questions, asks what you believe about each, and sharpens vague beliefs into claims you can test. It writes HYPOTHESES.md. It reads GOALS.md from step 1, so run asb-interview-goals first or paste your goals.
Third-party, by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear
October 18, 2026
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This skill ships inside Jason Cohen's asb-skills plugin. Install the plugin to get this skill along with the other twenty.
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Download the SKILL.md file and place it in a folder named asb-interview-hypotheses inside your .claude/skills directory.
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What this skill does
This is an overview of the skill from the site, not the skill's real instructions. The full SKILL.md Claude reads when this skill is active lives on GitHub at the source below.
Jason Cohen from A Smart Bear wrote this skill. We list it here so you can see what it does. This skill was written and reviewed by Jason Cohen. Read his own page for it at skills.asmartbear.com/skills/asb-interview-hypotheses. It reads GOALS.md from step 1, so run asb-interview-goals first or paste your goals.
This skill is one of twenty-one in the Skills from A Smart Bear plugin, which you can install in one step.
View full SKILL.md on GitHub