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.
npx skills add ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills --skill product-ideationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashaykubal/essential-agents-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills/product-ideation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills/product-ideation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills/product-ideation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills/product-ideation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills/product-ideation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00055 | $0.04082 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.02041 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00816 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00408 |
Grade A, and why
product-ideation 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 11d 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.
This is a copy
98% identical to product-ideation — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 373 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Product Ideation
Evaluates a product idea through a structured six-agent research pipeline and delivers a BUY/HOLD/SELL recommendation. The orchestrator interviews the user to clarify the idea, then spawns dedicated sub-agents for validation, market research, competitive analysis, pattern documentation, segment analysis, and final strategy. All analysis is grounded in web research and structured frameworks.
When to Use This Skill
Load this skill when the user request matches ANY of these patterns:
| Trigger Pattern | Example User Request |
|---|---|
| Idea evaluation | "Is this product idea worth pursuing?", "Evaluate my idea: X" |
| Market analysis | "Research the market for X", "Should I build X?" |
| Investment-style assessment | "Give me a BUY/HOLD/SELL on this idea", "Validate my product concept" |
| Pre-build research | "Before I start building X, help me understand the landscape" |
DO NOT use for:
- Evaluating existing live products or companies (use a financial analysis skill instead)
- Technical architecture decisions for an already-committed product (the idea stage has passed)
- Competitive analysis in isolation without a product idea as the anchor
Dependencies
| Category | Files | Requirement | When to Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis frameworks | references/analysis-frameworks.md |
REQUIRED | Include in sub-agent prompts at Stage 1+ |
| Final report template | templates/final-report.md |
REQUIRED | Include in strategist sub-agent prompt |
| Diagnostics schema | templates/diagnostic-output.yaml |
REQUIRED | Write at pipeline completion |
| Prompting | subagent-prompting skill |
REQUIRED | Load before spawning any sub-agent |
| Idea validator | .claude/agents/product-ideation-idea-validator.md |
REQUIRED | Spawned at Stage 1 (parallel) |
| Market researcher | .claude/agents/product-ideation-market-researcher.md |
REQUIRED | Spawned at Stage 1 (parallel) |
| Competitive analyzer | .claude/agents/product-ideation-competitive-analyzer.md |
REQUIRED | Spawned at Stage 2 (sequential) |
| Pattern documenter | .claude/agents/product-ideation-pattern-documenter.md |
REQUIRED | Spawned at Stage 3 (parallel) |
| Segment analyzer | .claude/agents/product-ideation-segment-analyzer.md |
REQUIRED | Spawned at Stage 3 (parallel) |
| Strategist | .claude/agents/product-ideation-strategist.md |
REQUIRED | Spawned at Stage 4 (sequential) |
What ships with it
3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 373 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A f08eb3d534ff
product-ideation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 4,082 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to product-ideation, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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