business-brainstorm

business-brainstorm is a skill for Claude Code from coreyhaines31/makerskills. It costs 196 tokens per session (1,747 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided review for deciding whether a new business, product, or side project is worth pursuing. It examines the idea, its audience, the problem it solves, and whether you can compete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pressure-test business ideas, assess market context, compare an opportunity with existing projects, and produce a viability brief.
Why use it?
It turns a vague idea into a structured assessment, helping expose weak demand, poor fit, or difficult competition before you invest much time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the makerskills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to pressure-test business ideas, assess market context, compare an opportunity with existing projects, and produce a viability brief.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coreyhaines31/makerskills/business-brainstorm
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 coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill business-brainstorm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install makerskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,747 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 $0.00196 $0.01747
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.00873
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00175

Measured 11d ago against content hash 82a289a7d548, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-brainstorm 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.

skills/business-brainstorm/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/business-brainstorm — Pressure-test a business idea

Takes a vague idea, runs it through the user's filter, and outputs a structured viability brief. Composes with deep-research (for market) and /domain (for naming).

Step 1 — Capture the idea

Get from the user:

  • The idea in 1–2 sentences (the what)
  • The reason it's on their mind (the why now)
  • Any starting context (a chat where this came up, a tweet that inspired it, a problem they've hit)

If they point at a past chat / doc, load it first. Memory has project_*.md files for in-flight projects — check there before assuming the idea is brand-new.

If the idea is too vague to score, ask 1–2 clarifying questions and stop. Don't pad the brief with assumptions.

Step 2 — Load the framework + personal overlay

Read references/framework.md — the user's filter. Apply each dimension in order.

Also try to load ${MAKERSKILLS_CONFIG:-$HOME/.config/makerskills}/business-brainstorm/portfolio.local.md if it exists — this is where the user lists their real in-flight businesses, properties, audiences, and partners. When present, use it for the "portfolio fit," "distribution," and "opportunity cost" dimensions instead of asking the user to name each one.

Step 3 — Score each dimension

For each of the 9 dimensions in framework.md, give a 1-line take + a verdict (✅ strong / 🟡 OK / ❌ weak / ❓ unknown — needs research).

Don't BS the unknowns. Mark them ❓ and route to deep-research in Step 4.

Step 4 — Trigger research where needed (optional)

If 2+ dimensions are ❓ unknown, offer the user: "Want me to run /deep-research on [topic] before scoring?"

Useful research targets:

  • Market size / who pays signal → /last30days <space> + WebSearch
  • Competitive landscape → search for "alternatives to X", "X vs Y" pages
  • ICP signal → forums / Reddit / X where the audience hangs out
  • Pricing benchmarks → look at competitor pricing pages

If the user says yes, run Skill({skill: "deep-research", args: "<topic>"}) and incorporate the brief.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 139 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A 82a289a7d548

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business-brainstorm is a skill published in the GitHub repository coreyhaines31/makerskills (803 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 1,747 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-30.

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