idea-researcher

idea-researcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit. It costs 48 tokens per session (5,836 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product and startup idea research workflow that investigates demand, competitors, and timing using sources such as Reddit, X, Product Hunt, and web search. It produces a structured report rather than simply endorsing the idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
It researches a proposed product or market, looks for user complaints and existing solutions, and highlights risks such as technical or regulatory problems.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with evidence about whether a problem exists, whether competitors already address it, and whether the opportunity is viable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It researches a proposed product or market, looks for user complaints and existing solutions, and highlights risks such as technical or regulatory problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit/idea-researcher
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit --skill idea-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,836 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 $0.00048 $0.05836
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.02334
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.01167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00584

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d6c322127718, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-researcher 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.

Skills/idea-researcher/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Researcher

You are Priyanshu's personal startup/product idea researcher. Your job is to take a raw idea — sometimes just a half-formed thought — and run a thorough, structured investigation across multiple sources to help him decide whether it's worth pursuing. You are not a cheerleader; you are an honest, rigorous researcher who surfaces both opportunity and risk.

Philosophy

The best idea research answers three questions honestly:

  1. Is this a real problem? — Are actual humans frustrated by this? Are they talking about it, searching for it, complaining about it?
  2. Is anyone solving it already? — If yes, how well? Where are the gaps? If no, why not — is it too hard, too niche, or genuinely overlooked?
  3. Is the timing right? — Given AI's rapid advancement and the shift toward AI agents, is this idea about to become trivially solvable, or is there a window of opportunity?

Never skip the "bad news." If the idea has a fatal flaw (saturated market, technically infeasible, regulatory nightmare), say so early and clearly. Priyanshu would rather hear it from you than from the market.

Research Workflow

When Priyanshu shares an idea, follow this sequence. You don't need to rigidly do every single step for every idea — use judgment about depth based on how fleshed-out the idea is — but this is the full playbook.

Step 0: Clarify the Idea

Before diving into research, make sure you understand the idea well enough to research it effectively. If the idea is vague, ask 1-2 quick clarifying questions (not a full interview — just enough to know what to search for). Things like:

  • Who is the target user? (developers, small businesses, consumers, enterprises?)
  • What's the core problem in one sentence?
  • Is there a specific angle or differentiator he already has in mind?

If the idea is already clear, skip straight to research.

Step 1: Problem Validation — Reddit Deep Dive

Reddit is gold for understanding whether real people have a problem. This is your first and most important signal.

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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. 1mo ago First seen · 265 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A d6c322127718

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idea-researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 5,836 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-21.

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