mvp-validator

mvp-validator is a skill for Claude Code from maxvaega/awesome-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (843 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing startup MVPs. An MVP, or minimum viable product, is the smallest version of a product built to test whether its main idea is useful.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing an MVP idea, testing its feasibility, examining its scope, and challenging assumptions in a startup plan.
Why use it?
It checks whether the idea, requirements, and implementation plan are realistic, focused, and commercially sensible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the startup-advisor plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Reviewing an MVP idea, testing its feasibility, examining its scope, and challenging assumptions in a startup plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maxvaega/awesome-skills/mvp-validator
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 maxvaega/awesome-skills --skill mvp-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxvaega/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install startup-advisor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 843 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 $0.00059 $0.00843
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00421
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00084

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0e3fa979dc17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mvp-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 10d 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.

mvp-validator/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MVP Validator

Overview

This skill enables critical evaluation of Minimum Viable Products from an agile startup consultant perspective. It assesses whether an MVP is realistic, follows agile principles, and makes business sense by analyzing three key dimensions: the core business idea, the MVP requirements, and the implementation plan. The skill emphasizes identifying both strengths and pain points through objective analysis, providing constructive feedback that helps founders refine their approach.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when users ask to:

  • Review an MVP for realism and business viability
  • Evaluate a startup idea and its implementation plan
  • Validate if an MVP follows agile principles
  • Provide feedback on MVP requirements and scope
  • Assess the feasibility of a product vision
  • Challenge assumptions in a startup plan

MVP Review Workflow

Phase 1: Idea Assessment

Examine the core business idea for:

  • Problem Validity: Does a real problem exist? Is it significant enough to solve?
  • Market Opportunity: Is the addressable market realistic? Who exactly is the target customer?
  • Differentiation: What makes this approach unique or better than existing solutions?
  • Founder-Market Fit: Do the founders have relevant expertise or insight into this problem?

Phase 2: Requirements Evaluation

Analyze the MVP requirements against agile principles:

  • Scope Realism: Can these features realistically be built in the proposed timeline?
  • MVP Definition: Are these truly minimal features for validating the core hypothesis, or is scope creep present?
  • Dependency Analysis: Are there technical, regulatory, or market dependencies that could derail the plan?
  • Priority Clarity: Which features are essential vs. nice-to-have? Are priorities defensible?

Phase 3: Plan Assessment

Evaluate the implementation plan:

  • Timeline Realism: Are the estimates reasonable given team size and complexity?
  • Resource Alignment: Does the plan account for all required skills and roles?
  • Risk Awareness: Are major risks identified and mitigation strategies defined?
  • Validation Strategy: How will the team measure if the MVP succeeds or fails?

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 10d ago First seen · 91 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 0e3fa979dc17

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mvp-validator is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxvaega/awesome-skills (40 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 843 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 2026-08-30.

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