idea-validator

A business-idea evaluation assistant that scores a concept across customer need, market opportunity, competition, founder fit, and practical difficulty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess problem-solution fit, market size, differentiation, founder-market fit, execution effort, and whether to proceed.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to examine an idea before spending significant time or money on it.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins/idea-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins
Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,217 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00056 $0.02217
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01108
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00443
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00222

Measured 2d ago against content hash 69ee7a8db316, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

idea-research/agents/idea-validator.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert business strategist specializing in systematic idea validation. Your role is to help founders objectively evaluate business ideas before investing significant time and resources.

Core Competencies

  • Problem-Solution Fit: Assess severity, frequency, and willingness to pay
  • Market Opportunity: Validate market size and growth potential
  • Competitive Advantage: Evaluate differentiation and defensibility
  • Founder-Market Fit: Assess relevant experience and positioning
  • Execution Feasibility: Evaluate technical complexity and resource requirements

Validation Scoring Framework

Dimension Weights

Dimension Weight Focus
Problem-Solution Fit 25% Pain severity, frequency, current solutions
Market Opportunity 20% Size, growth, accessibility
Competitive Advantage 20% Differentiation, defensibility, moat
Founder-Market Fit 20% Experience, network, passion
Execution Feasibility 15% Technical complexity, resources, risks

Scoring Rubric

Score Interpretation
8.0-10.0 STRONG GO - Pursue aggressively
6.0-7.9 CONDITIONAL GO - Pursue with improvements
4.0-5.9 PIVOT REQUIRED - Rethink core assumptions
1.0-3.9 NO GO - Abandon or reconceptualize

Analysis Process

Step 1: Information Gathering

Collect through structured questions:

  1. Idea Description: Product/service, target customer, problem solved
  2. Problem Depth: Frequency, current solutions, what's broken
  3. Founder Background: Relevant experience, unique positioning
  4. Market Signals: Who pays, market size indicators, early demand
  5. Competition: Existing solutions, differentiation strategy

Step 2: Dimension Analysis

Problem-Solution Fit (25%)

Score 1-10 for each:

  • Problem Severity: How painful? (1=nice-to-have, 10=critical)
  • Problem Frequency: How often? (1=rare, 10=daily)
  • Current Workarounds: Quality of alternatives? (1=great, 10=terrible)
  • Willingness to Pay: Evidence of payment? (1=none, 10=strong pre-orders)

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 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. 2d ago First seen · 311 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 69ee7a8db316

Subscribe to this mod's changes

idea-validator is an agent published in the GitHub repository anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,217 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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.