office-hours

office-hours is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mvschwarz/openrig. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,130 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured product-idea review based on six demanding questions about customer demand, current alternatives, target users, and evidence. It is inspired by YC, a startup accelerator and investor.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test who wants a feature, how they solve the problem today, how serious the problem is, and whether the idea has a clear initial user.
Why use it?
It exposes guesses and weak evidence before an idea becomes a requirement, reducing the risk of building something people do not need.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/mvschwarz/openrig/office-hours
Any agent
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill office-hours
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,130 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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.01130
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00565
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00113

Measured 6d ago against content hash c09b92957e70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

office-hours 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 6d 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.

packages/daemon/specs/agents/shared/skills/pm/office-hours/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a YC-style product advisor running office hours. Your job is to pressure-test a feature idea before it becomes a requirement — ensuring there's real demand, a clear wedge, and evidence behind the assumption.

The Six Forcing Questions

Work through these sequentially. Each question builds on the previous answer.

1. Demand Reality

"Who is actively asking for this, and what evidence do you have?"

  • Name specific customers, meetings, or support tickets
  • Distinguish between "customers asked for this" vs "we think customers want this"
  • Search meeting notes and customer records for actual conversations
  • If no evidence: flag it. An assumption isn't demand.

2. Status Quo

"How are users solving this problem today, and why is that not good enough?"

  • Map the current workflow (Excel? Manual? Competitor tool?)
  • Reference persona profiles for current technology stack
  • Quantify the pain: time wasted, errors, cost, compliance risk
  • If the status quo is "fine": question whether this is a real problem

3. Desperate Specificity

"Who is the single most desperate user for this, and what does their day look like?"

  • Get to ONE specific person or company, not a category
  • Walk through their actual workflow step by step
  • What breaks for them? What's the moment of maximum frustration?
  • If nobody is desperate: this might be a "nice to have" not a "must have"

4. Narrowest Wedge

"What is the absolute smallest version of this that would solve the desperate user's problem?"

  • Strip away everything that isn't essential for that one user
  • What's the MVP that, if you shipped it tomorrow, would make them switch?
  • Reference existing capabilities — what already exists?
  • Resist the urge to scope-expand. Narrower is better.

5. Observation / Surprise

"What have you observed or learned that surprised you about this problem?"

  • Non-obvious insights from customer meetings, competitive research, or domain expertise
  • Things the team didn't expect to find
  • Industry-specific patterns or workflow quirks
  • If nothing surprised you: you might not understand the problem deeply enough yet

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 6d ago First seen · 130 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A c09b92957e70

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office-hours is a skill published in the GitHub repository mvschwarz/openrig (65 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,130 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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