# Conversion capability (#1539) — flow-discovery-track Step 4.
apiVersion: flow.aiwg.io/v1
kind: FlowCapability
metadata:
  name: discovery-validate-spikes
  labels: { domain: discovery }
spec:
  description: Identify high-risk assumptions (technical-researcher), run time-boxed spikes/POCs to validate them with GO/NO-GO/PIVOT recommendations (software-implementer), and update the risk register (project-manager) (flow Step 4).
  version: "1.0.0"
  inputs: []
  outputs:
    - { name: spike_results, type: array }
    - { name: risk_updates, type: object }
  agent: technical-researcher
  idempotent: false