mvp-scoping

mvp-scoping is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,617 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of mvp-scoping, MIT.

A planning guide for reducing a product idea to the smallest first release worth building. It helps define what the release should test and which features belong in it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prioritize features, decide what to cut or delay, and set a clear first-release boundary. It also helps connect the release to a specific customer or product assumption.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty and scope creep when a team has more ideas than time or resources. It separates essential work from useful extras that can wait.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to prioritize features, decide what to cut or delay, and set a clear first-release boundary. It also helps connect the release to a specific customer or product assumption.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills/mvp-scoping
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills --skill mvp-scoping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,617 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00033 $0.01617
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00809
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00162

Measured 11d ago against content hash a67d23ed2f4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mvp-scoping 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to mvp-scoping — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/mvp-scoping/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MVP Scoping

When to Use

Activate when a founder or PM has an idea or a full feature spec and needs to distill it down to the smallest version worth building. Trigger phrases include "what's our MVP," "what should we cut," "scope this down," "what do we build first," "we only have 4 weeks," or "help me prioritize what to include." Also activate when a team is struggling with scope creep and needs to draw a clear line between must-have and nice-to-have.

Context Required

  • From startup-context: company stage, team size, runway/timeline pressure, existing product (if any), technical stack and constraints.
  • From the user: the full feature vision or spec, target user segment, the core hypothesis being tested, available timeline and resources, any non-negotiable requirements (compliance, security, contractual commitments).

Workflow

  1. State the hypothesis — Define what the MVP is designed to learn or prove. Format: "We believe that [user segment] will [behavior] if we provide [capability], and we'll know we're right when [measurable signal]."
  2. List all candidate features — Enumerate every feature, capability, and requirement from the full vision.
  3. Apply MoSCoW prioritization — Classify every item as Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, or Won't Have (this time).
  4. Identify risks — For each Must Have, identify technical, market, and execution risks. Flag any Must Have that carries high risk and may need a spike or prototype first.
  5. Define the cut line — Draw a clear boundary. Everything above the line ships in v1. Everything below has a specific trigger for when it gets built.
  6. Estimate and validate — Rough-size the Must Haves. If they exceed the available timeline by more than 20%, force-rank the Must Haves and demote the lowest.
  7. Write the MVP spec — Produce a concise scope document with explicit inclusions, exclusions, and deferred items.

Output Format

Hypothesis Statement

One sentence stating what the MVP will test and how success is measured.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 11d ago First seen · 96 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A a67d23ed2f4d

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mvp-scoping is a skill published in the GitHub repository Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,617 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to mvp-scoping, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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