validate

Haytham: Idea Validation (Phase 1 - WHY)

You are running Phase 1 of the Haytham validation workflow. This phase analyzes the startup idea, researches the market, and produces a recommendation.

IMPORTANT: Always read agent output from files, not from conversation history.

Progress Tracking

After Setup completes (and before Step 0), call TodoWrite once with one todo per step that will actually run for this invocation. Steps 0, 4, 6 are skipped in BATCH_MODE; skipped steps must not be added to the todo list. If resuming from --from N, only include steps from N onward.

Default (interactive) todo set:

1. Step 0 — Founder context
2. Step 1 — Idea analysis
3. Step 2 — Market & competitor research
4. Step 3 — Research brief
5. Step 4 — Founder review
6. Step 5 — Validation report
7. Step 6 — Gate 1

Mark each todo in_progress when starting the step and completed when its output file is written (or the gate decision is recorded). If a step re-runs because the founder corrected something, set it back to in_progress.

Setup & Resume Detection

Flag Parsing

First, check if the argument contains --batch. If so:

• Remove --batch from the argument string (the remainder is the idea, URL, or --from N)
• Set BATCH_MODE to true

Then check if the user passed --from N as the argument (e.g., /haytham:validate --from 5). If so, set START_STEP to N.

URL Detection

If the argument is not --from N, check if it looks like a URL:

If it matches https?://(www\.)?reddit\.com/ (Reddit post):

1. Try WebFetch to retrieve the URL content
2. If WebFetch fails (blocked or errors), fall back to the Reddit JSON API via Bash:

   curl -s -H "User-Agent: haytham/1.0" "[URL].json"
   

   Parse the JSON response to extract title and selftext from data.children[0].data.
3. Extract the post title and body text from the fetched content
4. Set IDEA_TEXT to the extracted title + body
5. Set SOURCE_URL to the original URL
6. Set SOURCE_TYPE to reddit_post