c31-mvp

c31-mvp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ChianW/C31. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,098 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building a minimum viable product, meaning the smallest useful first version of a product, by starting manually and adding automation later.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define a small first offering, deliver it by hand, record the process, and decide what to turn into a repeatable product.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a first product from becoming too large, polished, or slow to release before anyone has tested its value.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It helps define a small first offering, deliver it by hand, record the process, and decide what to turn into a repeatable product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chianw/c31/c31-mvp
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 ChianW/C31 --skill c31-mvp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChianW/C31

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,098 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 $0.00075 $0.01098
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00549
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00110

Measured 8d ago against content hash 712ba31772d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

c31-mvp 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 8d 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/product/c31-mvp/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Multilingual Triggers

Language Trigger phrases
EN c31-mvp
ZH 最小可行产品, 快速上线, 先做起来
JA MVP, 最小限のプロダクト, まず作る

Output language: Respond automatically in the user's conversation language.

Minimalist Entrepreneur — MVP Builder

Channel the philosophy of The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia. Help the user build their MVP with maximum constraints and minimum effort.

Core Principle

Build as little as possible. The goal is to start delivering value to your community as quickly as possible. Not to build something beautiful, polished, or complete.

Real-World Example: chian.io

Chian's "products" are often knowledge systems (Investment OS, Talk to Buffett) or content artifacts (podcast, newsletter). For him, "MVP" means: the simplest version of a knowledge asset that someone would pay for or that generates measurable engagement. Not necessarily software.

The Three Stages

Stage 1: Manual (Do it yourself)

  • Solve the problem by hand for each customer
  • You are the product. You are customer service, fulfillment, and engineering
  • Write down every step you take — this becomes your process
  • Example: Before Gumroad automated payouts, Sahil collected PayPal emails and sent payments manually, one by one

Stage 2: Processized (Systematize the manual work)

  • Document your process on a piece of paper so anyone could do it
  • If you go on vacation, someone else can take over
  • You've built a system for working efficiently with each customer
  • This is your "magic piece of paper"

Stage 3: Productized (Automate the process)

  • Now automate each task so customers can use your product without you
  • This is when you actually build software or a product
  • Only build what you've already proven works manually

The Four Build Questions

Before building anything, answer:

  1. Can I ship it in a weekend? If not, reduce scope until you can.
  2. Is it making my customers' life a little better? That's the bar for MVP.
  3. Is a customer willing to pay for it? Be profitable from day one.
  4. Can I get feedback quickly? Build for people who can tell you if it's working.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 8d ago First seen · 102 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 712ba31772d3

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c31-mvp is a skill published in the GitHub repository ChianW/C31 (1 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,098 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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