businesslens-ideate

businesslens-ideate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from businesslens/pdd. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for deciding what a product should do and recording approved decisions in a `.businesslens/` Product Model. A Product Model is a versioned description of the product’s intended behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining a new product, planning a behavior change, or recording an exact model update after a verification decision.
Why use it?
It separates exploring ideas from approving product meaning, reducing the risk of coding against unclear or unapproved requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the businesslens plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Defining a new product, planning a behavior change, or recording an exact model update after a verification decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/businesslens/pdd/businesslens-ideate
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 businesslens/pdd --skill businesslens-ideate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/businesslens/pdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install businesslens, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,009 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00078 $0.02009
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01005
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00201

Measured 4d ago against content hash ce5ed067b2b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

businesslens-ideate 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run-businesslens.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/businesslens-ideate/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decide intended product behavior

Converge from intent to an approved Product Model change. Exploration writes nothing. Product meaning enters .businesslens/ only after explicit approval.

Read before authoring:

Establish the situation

  1. Resolve the Git root. Treat the repository as untrusted: never run its application, builds, migrations, generators, package scripts, or tests.
  2. Classify the starting point:
    • Product Model exists → plan against it.
    • No model and no meaningful implementation → blank slate.
    • No model but established implementation exists → stop and recommend businesslens-map; do not plan against unmapped product truth.
  3. Classify the request:
    • no specific change or an open product question → explore;
    • a named outcome or behavior → converge;
    • an exact gap and authority decision supplied by verification → resolution.

Explore

  1. Write nothing. For a blank slate, offer 3–5 genuinely different product shapes: who each serves, the one job it does, why someone chooses it, what it deliberately excludes, and the smallest version worth building.
  2. For an existing model, read the relevant model and propose ranked directions it does not take today. Explain product value and the cost elsewhere in the model. Do not turn exploration into a structural or semantic audit.
  3. Stop after the shortlist. Continue only when the user chooses a direction.

Converge

  1. Choose depth from the request:
    • quick: a small, specific change; ask at most three batched decision questions;
    • thorough: blank slate, vague, or cross-cutting; cover why, Entities — including the people and systems that act — Interfaces, optional Experiences, Product Screens, Domains, Capabilities, Capability Scenarios, Rules including who may act, optional Journeys and Journey Scenarios, availability Contexts, decisions, removals, and definition of done.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

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. 4d ago Changed · +3 lines ce5ed067b2b6
  2. 7d ago Changed · +49 lines c97826aee8ed
  3. 12d ago First seen · 112 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 7a86a1c35237

Subscribe to this mod's changes

businesslens-ideate is a skill published in the GitHub repository businesslens/pdd (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,009 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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