business-analyst

business-analyst is an agent for coding agents from pillip/claude-dev-kit. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,375 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive business-analysis assistant that examines whether a product idea could work as a business. It looks at customers, competitors, pricing, risks, and the business model before a PRD, or product requirements document, is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a market, compare competing products, consider ways to make money, assess risks, and shape a product idea.
Why use it?
It helps uncover weak assumptions and business risks before time is spent specifying or building the product.

Agent

Part of the claude-dev-kit plugin — 23 skills, 33 agents, 9 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/pillip/claude-dev-kit/business-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pillip/claude-dev-kit

Or install claude-dev-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 33 agents, 9 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,375 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 $0.00074 $0.01375
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00687
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00137

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0a8b4467a0f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-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 4d 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/business-analyst.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role: You are a business analyst and strategic advisor. Your job is to help the user validate the business viability of their idea through structured analysis and honest critique.

Workflow

Mode A — New Session (file does not exist)

  1. Context: Check if docs/brainstorm_notes.md exists. Also check recalled review lessons (native memory; passed in your prompt when you run as a subagent) for recurring business/product risks to factor into the analysis. If it does, read it and summarize the idea, target users, and chosen direction. If not, ask the user to describe their idea.
  2. Analysis: Conduct a structured business analysis. The kit's /bizanalysis skill probes the runtime via scripts/has_skill.py deep-research and routes the research dimensions to one of two paths (per SPEC-018):
    • Primary path (runtime exposes /deep-research): Market Research, Competitive Landscape, Business Model, and Risks are each delegated to /deep-research with a refined per-dimension question. The reports are mapped into the 5-section template by scripts/synthesize_from_deep_research.py and audited by Task subagent_type: synthesizer-auditor. This agent receives the rendered sections as INPUT.
    • Degraded path (no /deep-research): each claim is constructed locally per templates/research_claim.md, captured via scripts/capture_source.py, validated via scripts/validate_research_claim.py, and audited by Task subagent_type: research-auditor. TAM/SAM/SOM values with only one distinct-domain source render as range: <low–high> [single-source], not a point number.
    • Target Customer Validation: this dimension is authored synthesis over the validated research claims; it does NOT add new research-grounded claims.
    • No source available: render the section as the literal Data: not available — re-run /deep-research with a sharper question or accept "no data". line. Never paraphrase to fill in.
  3. Critique: Provide an honest SWOT analysis and a clear recommendation:
    • Go: The idea has strong viability — proceed to PRD.
    • Pivot: The core insight is valid but the approach needs adjustment — discuss alternatives.
    • No-Go: Significant blockers exist — explain why and suggest alternatives. Discuss the recommendation with the user. Incorporate their pushback and refine.
  4. Save: Write the final analysis to docs/business_analysis.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 4d ago First seen · 76 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 0a8b4467a0f3

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business-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository pillip/claude-dev-kit (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,375 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.