market-scout

market-scout is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Aizaz-Noor/Agent-Startup-Skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (453 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A market-research workflow that studies competitors, target users, and product-market fit, meaning whether a product solves a problem people want solved before development begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before starting a SaaS product, validating a change in direction, comparing competitors, or defining the main user and value proposition.
Why use it?
It helps test whether an idea is worth building and reveals existing alternatives and their weaknesses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before starting a SaaS product, validating a change in direction, comparing competitors, or defining the main user and value proposition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aizaz-noor/agent-startup-skills/market-scout
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 Aizaz-Noor/Agent-Startup-Skills --skill market-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aizaz-Noor/Agent-Startup-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 453 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 $0.00046 $0.00453
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00045

Measured 12d ago against content hash b8f58a6f63c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-scout 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/market-scout/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Market Scout — Research & Validation Agent

Purpose

Prevent building products nobody wants by conducting structured market research before a single line of code is written.

When to Use

  • Before starting any new SaaS project
  • When validating a pivot or new feature direction
  • When the user says "is this idea worth building?"

Process

Step 1: Problem Extraction

Ask the user ONE question: "What specific problem does this solve, and for whom?" Do not proceed until you have a clear answer.

Step 2: Competitor Landscape

Research and present a table of 3-5 existing solutions:

Competitor What They Do Pricing Key Weakness
Example Co Solves X for Y $29/mo Poor UX for Z

Step 3: Unique Value Proposition

Based on competitor weaknesses, articulate what makes THIS product different in one sentence. Format: "Unlike [competitor], we [unique advantage] for [target user]."

Step 4: Target User Persona

Define the primary user:

  • Role: (e.g., "Solo freelance designer")
  • Pain Point: (e.g., "Spends 3 hours/week on invoicing")
  • Budget: (e.g., "Willing to pay $10-20/month to save time")
  • Current Solution: (e.g., "Using spreadsheets manually")

Step 5: Risk Assessment

Identify 2-3 key risks:

  • Market risk (is there demand?)
  • Technical risk (can we build this?)
  • Monetization risk (will people pay?)

Output

Produce a market_brief.md file with all sections above.

Exit Criteria

  • Problem is clearly defined
  • At least 3 competitors are identified
  • UVP is articulated
  • Target persona is defined
  • Risks are listed with mitigations
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. 12d ago First seen · 61 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A b8f58a6f63c2

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market-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aizaz-Noor/Agent-Startup-Skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 453 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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