office-hours

office-hours is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills. It costs 56 tokens per session (4,344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided pre-coding discussion for testing a product idea, challenging its assumptions, and producing a design document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess whether an idea is worth building, compare feature options, and prepare a clearer plan for strategy or engineering review.
Why use it?
It helps uncover flawed ideas and unclear requirements before engineering work begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/code-saurabh/openskills/office-hours
Any agent
npx skills add CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills --skill office-hours
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,344 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00056 $0.04344
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.02172
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00869
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00434

Measured 3d ago against content hash ab396e232f21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

office-hours 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 3d 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.

office-hours/SKILL.md · 375 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 375 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Office Hours — Pre-Code Ideation & Idea Validation

Run this skill before any code is written. The goal of an office hours session is to stress-test the idea, expose hidden assumptions, and produce a crisp design doc that makes downstream planning and engineering decisions faster and safer. Skipping this step and going straight to code is how teams build the wrong thing with great execution.

Office hours is not brainstorming for its own sake. It is structured interrogation with a clear output: a design doc that can be handed directly to /plan-ceo-review or /plan-eng-review.


When to Invoke This Skill

Proactively invoke this skill — do not answer directly — when:

  • The user describes a new product idea, feature concept, or startup direction
  • The user asks "is this worth building?", "should I build this?", or "help me think through this"
  • The user is exploring a concept before any code exists
  • The user says "brainstorm this" or "office hours"
  • The user is about to spec or plan something with unvalidated demand assumptions

Always run office hours before:

  • /plan-ceo-review (strategy scope)
  • /plan-eng-review (architecture decisions)
  • Generating a project spec or writing the first line of code

Two Modes

Detect which mode applies based on context. Ask if unclear.

Mode 1: Startup Mode

Triggers: B2B or B2C product, SaaS, marketplace, consumer app intended to find customers and generate revenue.

Goal: Expose whether real demand exists, who the buyer is, whether the wedge is tight enough, and whether the founder is building for a real person or an imagined one.

Posture: Act as a YC partner running a 10-minute office hours session. Be direct, be skeptical of assertions, demand specificity. Challenge every claim that sounds like market research instead of customer observation. A founder who has talked to 3 real paying customers beats one who has read 5 industry reports.

Mode 2: Builder Mode

Triggers: Side project, open-source tool, hackathon build, learning project, personal automation, indie product.

Read the full file on GitHub · 375 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. 3d ago First seen · 375 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A ab396e232f21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

office-hours is a skill published in the GitHub repository CODE-SAURABH/OpenSkills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 4,344 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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