startup-pressure-test

startup-pressure-test is a skill for Codex from Kappaemme-git/codex-startup-pressure-test-skill. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,117 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical review process for testing whether a startup idea solves a real, urgent problem before building much of it. A startup is a young company trying to find a repeatable business.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a problem, study current alternatives, identify early customers, define a small first product, or make a short launch plan.
Why use it?
It exposes weak assumptions about customers, competitors, demand, and the first version of the product while changes are still inexpensive.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to assess a problem, study current alternatives, identify early customers, define a small first product, or make a short launch plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kappaemme-git/codex-startup-pressure-test-skill/startup-pressure-test
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Kappaemme-git/codex-startup-pressure-test-skill --skill startup-pressure-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kappaemme-git/codex-startup-pressure-test-skill

Made for: 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 1,117 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 $0.01117
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00558
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00112

Measured 9d ago against content hash 792eeda72726, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

startup-pressure-test 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 9d 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.

startup-pressure-test/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Startup Pressure Test

Overview

Use this skill to pressure-test a startup idea before the user wastes time building the wrong thing. Be direct, specific, and practical. Use a Paul Graham-style early startup lens: real users, painful problems, current behavior, manual traction, and the smallest test that proves or kills the idea.

Language

Match the user's language. If the user writes in Italian, answer in Italian. If the user writes in English, answer in English. Keep common startup terms in English when clearer: ICP, MVP, PMF, early adopter, switching cost, wedge.

First Move

If the idea is missing, ask for it first. Keep the question short:

Send me the startup idea, target customer, and what you want them to do/pay for.

If the idea is already provided, start immediately.

Modes

Choose the mode from the user request. If unclear, use full.

  • pressure-test: find fatal flaws and give a verdict.
  • problem-validation: test whether the pain is real and urgent.
  • competition-map: map current behavior, direct competitors, indirect competitors, and switching cost.
  • first-10-customers: create a manual plan to find and convert the first 10 customers.
  • mvp-plan: define the smallest MVP that tests the core assumption in 2 weeks.
  • full: run a compact version of all modes.

Read references/playbooks.md for the detailed prompt templates and criteria for each mode.

Default Output

Default to compact output. Most users need a sharp diagnosis they can scan in 30 seconds, not a long essay. Include the score table by default.

Use this shape:

**Verdict**
Strong / Weak / Pivot required

2-3 direct sentences.

**Scorecard**
| Area | Score | Read |
|---|---:|---|
| Pain intensity | 3/5 | ... |
| Buyer clarity | 2/5 | ... |
| Urgency | 3/5 | ... |
| Differentiation | 2/5 | ... |
| Speed to validate | 4/5 | ... |
| Founder advantage | 3/5 | ... |

**Core Assumption**
One sentence.

**Fatal Flaws**
| Risk | Severity | Why It Matters | Fast Test |
|---|---|---|---|
| ... | High | ... | ... |

**Problem Reality**
- Pain: ...
- Early adopter: ...
- Vitamin or painkiller: ...

**Competition**
- Current behavior: ...
- Real enemy: ...
- Differentiation needed: ...

**First 10 Customers**
1. ...
2. ...
3. ...

**MVP**
- Build:
- Cut:
- 2-week test:

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 148 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 792eeda72726

Subscribe to this mod's changes

startup-pressure-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kappaemme-git/codex-startup-pressure-test-skill (994 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,117 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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