app-idea-validator

app-idea-validator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MartinPuli/createAnApp. It costs 82 tokens per session (852 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for testing one specific Apple app idea against current evidence about users, competitors, pricing, distribution, repeat use, and platform fit. It can conclude that the idea is unsupported or only conditionally promising.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a chosen audience, painful task, promised result, Apple-device advantage, competing solutions, price, target market, acquisition channel, and practical user constraints.
Why use it?
It separates genuine demand from casual interest, downloads, one-time payments, or favorable opinions. It helps avoid building an app before checking whether people have the problem, use alternatives, and may pay for a solution.

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/martinpuli/createanapp/app-idea-validator
Any agent
npx skills add MartinPuli/createAnApp --skill app-idea-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MartinPuli/createAnApp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 852 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 $0.00082 $0.00852
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00085

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7b2b90dea1c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-idea-validator 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 5d 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-idea-validator/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Idea Validator

Test one supplied product hypothesis against current evidence and behavior. Separate interest, activation, payment, retention, and product-market fit. A score or favorable report is not validation.

Freeze the hypothesis being tested

Record without silently changing it:

  • target user and buyer;
  • painful job and use context;
  • promised outcome;
  • proposed Apple device/platform advantage;
  • current alternative;
  • monetization and price hypothesis;
  • initial territory and acquisition channel;
  • user constraints and non-negotiables.

If a component is missing, state the minimum assumption needed to test it. If evidence later contradicts the idea, return a failed or conditional verdict rather than substituting another idea. Use $app-market-discovery only if the user asks for alternatives.

Run desk validation

Use dated, direct evidence:

  • App Store competitors/substitutes, pricing, subscriptions, ratings, review complaints, screenshots, update cadence, and territory;
  • competitor websites, help centers, changelogs, and public pricing;
  • search intent, forums, communities, procurement behavior, and recurring complaint language;
  • credible category data and current Apple platform changes;
  • reachable distribution channels and their likely economics;
  • safety, privacy, moderation, regulatory, and App Review risks.

Create a source ledger distinguishing observation from inference. Search adversarially for free incumbents, platform bundling, recent entrants, low frequency, weak switching, high CAC, refund/churn risk, human-service burden, and claims liability.

Test the business assumptions

Evaluate:

  • urgency and measurable value;
  • evidence of willingness to pay at the proposed price;
  • why users would switch now;
  • recurrence and retention mechanism;
  • addressable and reachable beachhead, not only total market size;
  • channel-to-price economics;
  • whether Apple hardware materially improves the job;
  • feasibility of delivering every promised outcome;
  • risks that make the model non-operable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 90 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 7b2b90dea1c7

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app-idea-validator is a skill published in the GitHub repository MartinPuli/createAnApp (14 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 852 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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