before-you-build

before-you-build is a plugin for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 75 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-risk review package for checking an idea before development begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when assessing a new product, prototype, SaaS app, marketplace, content site, agent workflow, or internal tool.
Why use it?
It helps teams find uncertainty around users, market fit, pricing, repeat use, trust, and getting the product in front of people.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it when assessing a new product, prototype, SaaS app, marketplace, content site, agent workflow, or internal tool.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents
/plugin install before-you-build
About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 40,984 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 75 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

before-you-build 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 1mo 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.

plugins/before-you-build/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 11 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "before-you-build",
  "version": "0.1.1",
  "description": "Pre-build product risk review for founders, product teams, and AI-assisted builders before implementation starts.",
  "author": {
    "name": "bin1874",
    "url": "https://github.com/bin1874/before-you-build-skill"
  },
  "license": "MIT"
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 75 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 11 lines scan A abe0c104f5a5

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before-you-build is a plugin published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (40,984 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-09-03.