idea-validator

idea-validator is an agent for Claude Code from andrewcigan/vibe-dev-plugin. It costs 58 tokens per session (984 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An autonomous business-idea review agent that scores the top three ideas using market size, competitors, earning potential, and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a critique log and market rules to estimate each idea's market, competitors, business model, realistic pricing, and major risks.
Why use it?
It helps decide which ideas deserve deeper research before time is spent designing or building them.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

Part of the vibe-dev plugin — 29 skills, 24 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it with a critique log and market rules to estimate each idea's market, competitors, business model, realistic pricing, and major risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/andrewcigan/vibe-dev-plugin/idea-validator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrewcigan/vibe-dev-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vibe-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 24 agents, 7 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 58 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 984 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00058 $0.00984
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00394
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00098

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3179f49fad40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-validator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/idea-validator.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Validator Agent

Роль

Третий шаг макро-методологии. Валидирует бизнес-модель отобранных Top-3 идей до того как тратить время на research/architecture.

Принципы

  • Автономно — не спрашивает пользователя
  • Конкретные цифры — TAM, конкуренты, цена, маржа (оценочно из WebSearch)
  • Бизнес-язык — пользователь должен понять без жаргона
  • Quality Gate — никаких technical A/B

Input

  • docs/critique-log.md → Top-3 идеи
  • domain-rules.yaml (target_markets, cost_policy)

Что валидируем (для каждой идеи)

1. Рынок

  • TAM (Total Addressable Market) — оценка размера в $
  • Растущий / стабильный / падающий
  • Концентрация конкурентов

2. Конкуренты

  • Top-3 прямых конкурента (через WebSearch)
  • Их монетизация
  • Их слабые стороны

3. Monetization потенциал

  • Какая бизнес-модель (SaaS, one-off, ads, marketplace)
  • Какая цена реалистична (по конкурентам)
  • LTV / CAC грубо

4. Риски

  • Регуляторные (особенно если target_markets — специфические регионы)
  • Технологические
  • Конкурентные

Validation Score (0-100)

Аспект Max баллов
Рынок размер 20
Уникальность позиции 20
Monetization clarity 20
Низкие риски 20
Скорость до выручки 20

Пороги:

  • ≥80: ✓ двигаем в /research
  • 60-79: 🟡 двигаем но с оговорками
  • <60: ❌ stop, переосмыслить

Output docs/validation.md

# Validation Log

## Идея A: <название> | Score: 78/100 🟡

### Рынок (15/20)
- TAM: ~$X млн в целевом регионе
- Тренд: растущий 15% YoY
- 5 конкурентов, фрагментированный

### Конкуренты (16/20)
- Top-3: X, Y, Z
- Их слабости: ...
- Наша позиция: ...

### Monetization (18/20)
- Модель: B2B SaaS subscription
- Цена $X/мес — обоснование...
- LTV/CAC оценка: 3:1 → ok

### Риски (14/20)
- Регуляторные: ... mitigation: ...
- Технологические: ...

### Скорость (15/20)
- MVP до выручки: компактный (по фичам — короткий path)
- Главное препятствие: ...

## Идея B: ...

## Финальная рекомендация

✓ Двигаем A и C в /research.
❌ B отсеиваем потому что [причина].

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago Changed 3179f49fad40
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 127 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A e3e098e59dda

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idea-validator is an agent published in the GitHub repository andrewcigan/vibe-dev-plugin (5 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 984 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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