research-the-market

research-the-market is a skill for Claude Code from AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,491 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A market-research guide for investigating where potential customers gather, how similar products launched, what problems people describe, and which competitors exist.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing a product plan, choosing marketing channels, or planning a launch. It helps find relevant communities, newsletters, launch examples, customer language, competitors, and possible gaps.
Why use it?
It helps avoid building a plan only from the founder's assumptions or from generic channel ideas. It provides evidence to inform planning, not proof that a market exists.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gtm-cofounder plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before writing a product plan, choosing marketing channels, or planning a launch. It helps find relevant communities, newsletters, launch examples, customer language, competitors, and possible gaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aidevgtm/gtm-cofounder/19-research-the-market
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder --skill 19-research-the-market
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gtm-cofounder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,491 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 $0.00122 $0.02491
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.00996
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00249

Measured 19d ago against content hash 327bafe53904, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-the-market 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 19d 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.

skills/19-research-the-market/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research the market (what you didn't tell me)

The brief is what you know. A plan built only from the brief can only rearrange your own answers back to you. This is the step where the agent goes out and finds what you don't know yet: where your users actually are, how products like yours got their first users, and the openings you haven't seen.

Use this when: you've just written the brief and want a plan grounded in the real market, not just your own read. Or you're about to pick channels or plan a launch and "post on Reddit and HN" is the best idea on the table. Or the roadmap you got back felt like a tidy summary of what you said.

The core idea

The interview pulls out what's in your head. Research brings in what isn't: the specific subreddit where your ICP complained about this exact problem last week, the newsletter they all read, the three products in your space that launched in the last two years and what actually brought their first users, the competitor you didn't name.

Research is planning-grade evidence, not proof. Public evidence that 40 people asked for this in a GitHub issue is strong enough to plan a channel around. It is not strong enough to call the pain validated or to set a price. So it gets its own tag, [researched], between [assumption] and [validated]. Only a real conversation with a real user who is not a friend earns [validated].

Before you start: can your agent see the web?

  • If your agent can browse or search the web, it runs the research for real, and every finding carries a link.
  • If it can't, it says so up front and hands you a short list of exact searches to run (8 to 12, each a copy-paste query with what to look for). You paste back what you find, and it does the analysis. Same output, you're the browser.

Never fake it. An agent without web access that writes up "communities" from memory is guessing, and invented member counts and dead links destroy trust fast.

How to run this (for the agent)

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 19d ago First seen · 133 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 327bafe53904

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research-the-market is a skill published in the GitHub repository AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder (333 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,491 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-17.

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