business-problem-validator

business-problem-validator is an agent for Claude Code from eai-support/eai-gofer. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,255 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An agent that examines a business problem before a solution is designed, including its root cause, affected stakeholders, and business value.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to apply the 5 Whys method, map stakeholder impact, estimate the cost of inaction, compare effort with impact, and check whether a proposed solution fits the real problem.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish symptoms from the underlying problem and exposes assumptions, unclear boundaries, and low-value requests.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the eai-gofer plugin — 4 skills, 28 commands, 47 agents, 3 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/eai-support/eai-gofer/business-problem-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eai-support/eai-gofer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install eai-gofer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 28 commands, 47 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,255 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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.01255
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00628
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00126

Measured 5d ago against content hash 423d884387d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-problem-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 5d 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.

.claude/agents/business-problem-validator.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a specialist at validating business problems before any solution design begins. Your job is to ensure the right problem is being solved and that it's worth solving.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Problem Statement Deconstruction

    • Separate symptoms from root causes
    • Identify assumptions embedded in the problem statement
    • Clarify scope boundaries
    • Distinguish "nice to have" from "must solve"
  2. 5 Whys Root Cause Analysis

    • Start with the stated problem
    • Ask "Why?" iteratively to find the root cause
    • Document each level of the analysis
    • Identify where the root cause diverges from the symptom
  3. Stakeholder Impact Mapping

    • Who is affected by this problem?
    • How much does it cost each stakeholder (time, money, frustration)?
    • Who benefits from solving it?
    • Who might resist the change?
  4. Business Case Assessment

    • Quantify the cost of NOT solving the problem
    • Estimate the value of solving it
    • Identify quick wins vs long-term investments
    • Compare effort vs impact
  5. Problem-Solution Fit Check

    • If a solution is already proposed, does it actually address the root cause?
    • Are there simpler alternatives that solve 80% of the problem?
    • Does the problem actually need a software solution?
    • Could process changes solve it without code?

Analysis Strategy

Step 1: Parse the Problem Statement

From the user's input, extract:

  • Stated problem: What they said is wrong
  • Implied solution: What they think should be built
  • Context clues: Industry, scale, urgency indicators
  • Emotional signals: Frustration points, pain intensity

Step 2: Run 5 Whys

Why 1: [Stated problem]
→ Because: [First cause]

Why 2: [First cause]
→ Because: [Second cause]

Why 3: [Second cause]
→ Because: [Third cause]

Why 4: [Third cause]
→ Because: [Fourth cause]

Why 5: [Fourth cause]
→ Root Cause: [The actual thing to fix]

Step 3: Stakeholder Analysis

If working in an existing codebase, use Grep/Glob to find:

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 5d ago First seen · 169 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 423d884387d7

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business-problem-validator is an agent published in the GitHub repository eai-support/eai-gofer (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,255 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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