innovate

innovate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from InSciCo/i-framework. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,052 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

The final stage of a product-planning framework. It tests why a chosen product idea should stand out, then turns that idea into a complete list of features classified as new product ideas or implementation work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after the framework’s ideation stage to examine differentiation, unique value, defensibility, validation evidence, and the features needed to build the product.
Why use it?
It exposes weak differentiation, unclear customer value, and easily copied advantages before the feature list is finalized. It also connects the chosen product direction to concrete work.

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/inscico/i-framework/innovate
Any agent
npx skills add InSciCo/i-framework --skill innovate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/InSciCo/i-framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for innovate

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/inscico/i-framework/innovate.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/inscico/i-framework/innovate)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/inscico/i-framework/innovate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/inscico/i-framework/innovate.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,052 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 $0.00064 $0.01052
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00526
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00105

Measured 4d ago against content hash b4876736e35b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

innovate 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/innovate/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/innovate — Stage 3: define why we win, then spec the features

This is the payoff stage. You retire market, value & moat risk by forcing a clear UVP, then you decompose the bet into the feature set that is the deliverable. Run as a guided interview, one question at a time.

Procedure

1. Load context & check the gate (soft)

Read Product/intent.md and Product/ideation.md. If ideation.md has gate: open, warn ("you haven't settled a validated bet yet — proceed anyway?") but don't block. If ideation.md is missing, suggest /ideate first.

2. Interview for differentiation

Ask, one at a time, challenging thin answers:

  • The secret: what do you believe or know that competitors don't?
  • Why 10x, not 10%: on which dimension are you an order of magnitude better — painkiller, not vitamin?
  • The moat: what stops a fast follower copying you? Does the advantage compound (data, network, switching costs, brand)?
  • Validation: what's the cheapest evidence the value is real (willingness-to-pay, retention, "very disappointed" signal)?

3. Write Product/innovation.md

Use the structure from the plugin's templates/innovation.md. You MUST enumerate the UVP elements as an id'd list (UVP-1, UVP-2…) — every innovation feature's contributes_to references one of these ids, so a prose-only UVP silently breaks tracing. Capture the unique insight, why-10x, moat, and validation plan.

3b. (Optional) Ground the UVP in competitor research

Offer to run /compete now. If the founder accepts — or Product/competition.md already exists — use the comparison matrix as evidence for the next steps: a capability that's table-stakes across the matrix becomes implementation; a whitespace capability that maps to a UVP id becomes innovation. If they decline, proceed on judgment. /compete writes Product/competition.md; it's optional and never blocks.

4. Decompose the bet into features

Enumerate every capability the MVP needs to deliver the UVP, plus the table-stakes needed for a usable product. Aim for completeness, not minimalism, at this step — /classify and priority will separate signal from noise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 4d ago First seen · 47 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A b4876736e35b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

innovate is a skill published in the GitHub repository InSciCo/i-framework (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,052 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

product-brainstorming

Brainstorm product ideas, explore problem spaces, and challenge assumptions as a thinking partner. Use when exploring an opportunity, generating solutions, or stress-testing an idea before converging on a direction.

martineserios/thebrana · 44 tokens

pr

Comprehensive PR/issue review - analyzes architecture, tests, identifies unrelated changes mixed in, drafts review comment or issue comment. Use when user asks to review a PR, check a PR, look at PR changes, or comment on an issue.

umputun/cc-thingz · 51 tokens

backlog

Read, work, and maintain a Git repo's deferred-work items in docs/backlog/, one file per item. Use when the user says "backlog", "check backlog", "what's on my backlog", "work the backlog", "address the backlog", "add to backlog", "clean up backlog", or when a review or task produced items that are real but not being…

umputun/cc-thingz · 96 tokens

ask-codex

Consult OpenAI Codex for investigation, debugging, or code review. Use when user explicitly asks to "ask codex", "check with codex", "codex review", or as a last resort when stuck after 4+ failed attempts at debugging, investigation, or bug fix and completely out of ideas. Codex is slow (2-5 min), so only escalate…

umputun/cc-thingz · 103 tokens

new

Use when user asks to create a release, cut a release, or publish a version. Auto-detects GitHub vs GitLab vs Gitea, calculates semantic version, generates release notes from PRs/MRs or commits, shows preview for confirmation before publishing.

umputun/cc-thingz · 56 tokens

clarify

This skill should be used when user appears confused, frustrated, or shows misalignment between expectations and reality. Triggers on phrases like "I don't understand", "this doesn't make sense", "confused", "wait, shouldn't it...", "why is this happening", "I thought X did Y", contradictory statements, or frustration…

umputun/cc-thingz · 91 tokens