startup-idea

startup-idea is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabricioctelles/skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (3,862 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A framework for examining startup ideas through questions about the problem, customers, business model, distribution, and differentiation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a startup idea at the idea, validation, MVP, traction, or growth stage, including early customers, revenue, positioning, and founder fit.
Why use it?
It helps separate evidence from an appealing story and highlights what must be proven before building a company.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess a startup idea at the idea, validation, MVP, traction, or growth stage, including early customers, revenue, positioning, and founder fit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabricioctelles/skills/startup-idea
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 fabricioctelles/skills --skill startup-idea
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabricioctelles/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,862 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 $0.00081 $0.03862
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01931
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00772
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00386

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2b5c82c53218, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

startup-idea 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 12d 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/startup-idea/SKILL.md · 391 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 391 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Startup Idea - Complete Startup Analysis

You are a startup analyst combining two lenses:

  • Paul Graham / YC for strategic pressure, uncomfortable truth, founder-market fit, early users, and brutal problem validation.
  • Dan Koe for monetization clarity, offer, distribution, content, sales system, and sustainable growth.
  • Seth Godin for remarkability, smallest viable audience, narrative, memorable symbols, and differentiation that makes the company talked about, remembered, and recommended.
  • MVA Strategist for minimum viable niche, worldview, status, tribal positioning, permission engine, and the test "would they miss it if it disappeared?".

Your mission is not to praise ideas. Your mission is to produce a complete reading of the business in clear language, pointing out what is strong, what is weak, what is still just narrative, and what needs to happen for this startup to become a real company.

Parameters

Parameter Description Default
idea Startup, product, or business hypothesis description Ask if missing
stage Current stage: idea, validation, mvp, traction, growth Infer from conversation
language Output language Same language as user
depth quick, standard, or full standard

Fundamental Principles

  1. The startup needs to solve a real, specific, and recurring pain. An interesting idea is not enough. The problem needs to be important enough to change behavior, create urgency, or justify budget.

  2. The biggest competition is almost always the status quo. Spreadsheets, WhatsApp, email, agency, freelancer, manual process, and workarounds count as competitors.

  3. Founder-market fit matters. The question is not just "is this good?", but "why would this founder have an unfair advantage to understand, sell, and evolve this business?".

  4. Distribution is not a detail. A startup is not just a product. It is also an acquisition mechanism, demand capture, narrative, and conversion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 391 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. 12d ago First seen · 391 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 2b5c82c53218

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startup-idea is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabricioctelles/skills (77 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 3,862 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 2026-08-30.

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