memstack-product-mvp-scoper

memstack-product-mvp-scoper is a skill for Claude Code from cwinvestments/memstack. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,506 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for scoping a minimum viable product (MVP), the smallest useful version of a product that can test a central idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rank features, estimate effort and impact, define a short sprint, and set success criteria.
Why use it?
It helps teams limit the first build to the features needed to learn whether the idea works.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the memstack plugin — 87 skills, 2 commands, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to rank features, estimate effort and impact, define a short sprint, and set success criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cwinvestments/memstack/mvp-scoper
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cwinvestments/memstack --skill mvp-scoper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cwinvestments/memstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install memstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 87 skills, 2 commands, 6 hooks.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,506 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 $0.00065 $0.02506
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.01002
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00501
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00251

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a304e506ee3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memstack-product-mvp-scoper 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/product/mvp-scoper/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MVP Scoper: Scoping minimum viable product...

Defines the smallest buildable product that validates a core hypothesis using feature triage, effort/impact scoring, a 2-week sprint scope, and success criteria.

Activation

When this skill activates, output:

MVP Scoper: Scoping minimum viable product...

Then execute the protocol below.

Context Guard

Context Status
User says "MVP", "minimum viable product", "scope the MVP" ACTIVE
User says "what should I build first" or "strip to core" ACTIVE
User has an idea and wants to know the smallest thing to build ACTIVE
User wants a full product requirements document DORMANT: use PRD Writer
User wants a roadmap beyond MVP DORMANT: use Roadmap Builder

Common Mistakes

Mistake Why It's Wrong
"MVP means bad quality" Minimum viable means minimum scope, not minimum quality. Ship fewer features, but polish them.
"Add just one more thing" Every "one more thing" adds a week. The MVP is a hypothesis test, not a product launch.
"Build the whole backend first" Start with what users see and interact with. Fake the backend if needed (wizard of oz MVP).
"Skip the hypothesis" Without a hypothesis, you're just building. The MVP exists to test ONE assumption.
"No success criteria" How will you know if the MVP worked? Define the test before building.

Protocol

Step 1: Define the Hypothesis

If the user hasn't provided details, ask:

  1. Idea: what are you building? (one paragraph)
  2. Target user: who is the first user? (be specific: not "everyone")
  3. Problem: what painful problem does this solve?
  4. Assumption: what's the riskiest assumption? (the thing that must be true for this to work)
  5. Existing alternatives: how do people solve this today?

Hypothesis template:

## Core Hypothesis

We believe that [target users]
have a problem with [specific pain point].

If we build [proposed solution],
they will [expected behavior: sign up, pay, use weekly, share].

We will know this is true when [measurable success criteria].

### Riskiest Assumption
[The single assumption that, if wrong, makes the whole product fail]

### How the MVP Tests This
[Specifically how the MVP will validate or invalidate the assumption]

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 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 Changed a304e506ee3b
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 289 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 1d6b30d396ec

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memstack-product-mvp-scoper is a skill published in the GitHub repository cwinvestments/memstack (425 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,506 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.