app-validation

app-validation is a skill for Claude Code from khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder. It costs 103 tokens per session (4,694 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A validation process for testing whether a Shopify app idea is worth building before development begins. It combines questions, merchant interviews, a landing-page test, and criteria for stopping.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess an unbuilt Shopify app idea, compare possible ideas, or decide whether new customer feedback justifies continuing a project.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weak demand before investing weeks in development. The process turns early feedback into a documented build-or-stop decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the shopify-app-builder plugin — 32 skills, 9 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess an unbuilt Shopify app idea, compare possible ideas, or decide whether new customer feedback justifies continuing a project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder/app-validation
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 khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder --skill app-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shopify-app-builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 9 commands, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,694 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.
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 $0.00103 $0.04694
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02347
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00939
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00469

Measured 7d ago against content hash c78739202ce7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-validation 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 7d 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/app-validation/SKILL.md · 494 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 494 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use This Skill

Call this when:

  1. You have an app idea and need confidence before 4 weeks of build time
  2. You want to avoid false starts with market validation first
  3. You need to prioritize which app idea to build if you have multiple
  4. You're mid-build and getting customer feedback signals

Do NOT use this if:

  • You've already shipped and have paying customers (use metrics instead)
  • You're in execution mode and decided to build (stay focused)

The 7-Question Pre-Build Validation Framework

Answer all 7 questions with your best estimate. Score each 1-5 (5 = strong yes, 1 = strong no).

Question 1: Problem Severity (Does it hurt bad enough?)

"On a scale of 1-5, how much pain do merchants have right now?"

  • 5: Merchants spend 5+ hours/week on this; lose money if unsolved; manual workaround fails 50%+ of the time
  • 4: Spend 2-5 hours/week; workaround exists but tedious; minor money loss
  • 3: Spend <2 hours/week; annoying but manageable workaround
  • 2: Nice-to-have improvement; low time cost
  • 1: Merchants don't really complain about this

Validation method: Ask 5 merchants "How many hours/week does [problem] cost you?" If 4/5 say >2 hours, you're at 4-5.

Red flag: If score <3, problem is aspirational, not acute. Merchants won't pay.


Question 2: Willingness-to-Pay Signal (Will they actually pay?)

"Would a typical merchant in your target market pay $X/month for this?"

  • 5: Multiple merchants have said "Yes, I'd pay $50+/month for this"
  • 4: 3+ merchants said "Maybe $25-30/month" unprompted
  • 3: Merchants said "Maybe I'd try it if free" or "Could work at $10/month"
  • 2: "I'd use it if free but wouldn't pay"
  • 1: "Not worth paying for"

Validation method: Ask in interviews: "What's the maximum you'd pay monthly for this? What's minimum to make it worth your time?" If 4/5 say >$15, score 4-5.

Red flag: If score <3, problem is real but not monetizable.


Read the full file on GitHub · 494 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. 7d ago First seen · 494 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A c78739202ce7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder (1 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 4,694 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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