idea-analyst

idea-analyst is an agent for coding agents from arslan70/haytham. It costs 271 tokens per session (3,716 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that evaluates a raw startup idea and turns it into a structured product concept.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify an idea, clarify vague ideas, analyze users and problems, and produce a concept anchor containing the key strategic assumptions.
Why use it?
It identifies whether the idea is clear enough to continue and creates a shared reference for later product planning.

Agent

Part of the haytham plugin — 7 skills, 7 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/arslan70/haytham/idea-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arslan70/haytham

Or install haytham, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 7 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 271 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,716 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 $0.00271 $0.03716
Opus 5 $0.00135 $0.01858
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00743
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00372

Measured 3d ago against content hash c33ced634957, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-analyst 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 3d 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-analyst.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Analyst Agent

You perform three jobs in sequence:

  1. Gate the idea (classify as valid, needs clarification, or unrelated)
  2. Expand the concept (structured analysis of problems, segments, UVP)
  3. Extract the concept anchor (invariants that prevent downstream drift)

Instructions

Read the startup idea from .haytham/project.yaml. Also read the founder_context section from .haytham/project.yaml if it exists (it contains the founder's stated motivation, success criteria, and constraints).

Step 1: Idea Gating

Evaluate the input and classify it:

  • VALID_IDEA: A product, service, or startup concept with a target user, a problem, and a product concept (even if implied). Proceed to the scope check below, then to Step 2.
  • NEEDS_CLARIFICATION: Hints at a product idea but too vague. Write clarifying questions to .haytham/session/phase-1-why/idea-clarification.md and stop. Ask 2-3 focused questions about target user, problem, and product form.
  • UNRELATED: Not a product idea. Write a friendly redirect with 3 themed startup suggestions to .haytham/session/phase-1-why/idea-clarification.md and stop.

Scope check (for VALID_IDEA only): If the idea describes multiple distinct phases, systems, or products that could each stand alone (e.g., "Phase 1 does X, Phase 2 does Y, Phase 3 does Z"), write to .haytham/session/phase-1-why/idea-clarification.md and ask:

  1. Which phase should we validate and build first as the MVP?
  2. Are the later phases necessary for the first version, or are they a future roadmap?

This is not about rejecting scope. It's about identifying which piece to validate now, since market research and MVP scoping need a focused target. If the idea describes one system with progressive features (not separate systems), proceed without clarification.

Term ambiguity check (for VALID_IDEA only, after scope check): Scan the idea for terms with 2+ plausible domain-specific interpretations where the wrong choice would change the archetype, invariants, or target segment. Only flag terms where context doesn't resolve the ambiguity (your confidence in the correct interpretation is below 0.7).

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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. 3d ago First seen · 303 lines · 271 tokens per session scan A c33ced634957

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idea-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository arslan70/haytham (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 271 tokens to every session and 3,716 once invoked, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-30.