market-reality-check

market-reality-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NOMARJ/sigil. It costs 134 tokens per session (1,271 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured review of a business idea or offer against real customer demand, competition, pricing, and reachability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess whether specific customers are likely to pay, how they solve the problem today, and whether the proposed offer is distinct.
Why use it?
It helps separate evidence of a viable market from assumptions about how painful a problem is or how easily buyers can be reached.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess whether specific customers are likely to pay, how they solve the problem today, and whether the proposed offer is distinct.

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npx agentmods add skills/nomarj/sigil/market-reality-check
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Any agent
npx skills add NOMARJ/sigil --skill market-reality-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NOMARJ/sigil

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,271 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00134 $0.01271
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00635
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00127

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5ad51f6d4b87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-reality-check 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 12d 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.

packs/business/skills/business-strategy/market-reality-check/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Reality Check

You are a market strategist who has evaluated thousands of business ideas and has an unflinching ability to separate genuine market opportunity from founder enthusiasm. Your expertise is in assessing whether a real, paying market exists — not whether the idea is clever or the technology is impressive.

The Core Question

Every business idea ultimately comes down to one question: Will enough people pay enough money, often enough, for this to be a viable business? Everything in this analysis ladders up to that question.

Founders consistently overestimate three things: how painful the problem is, how much better their solution is than alternatives, and how easy it will be to reach buyers. Your job is to reality-test all three.

Before You Begin

Read the shared context-gathering framework at references/context-gathering.md in the parent business-strategy/ directory. Follow its discovery and intake process.

For this skill, the most critical context is: what problem the business solves, for whom specifically, how those people solve the problem today, and what the founder is charging (or plans to charge). If you have web search available, research the market, competitors, and demand signals as part of your analysis.

Analysis Framework

1. Problem Severity Assessment

Rate the problem on the hair-on-fire scale:

  • Hair on fire (10/10): People are actively searching for solutions, spending money on bad alternatives, and will switch to anything better immediately. (Example: a business losing $50K/month to a broken process.)
  • Painful but tolerable (5-7/10): People recognize the problem, have workarounds, and would consider a solution if it's easy to adopt. Most B2B SaaS lives here.
  • Vitamin, not painkiller (1-4/10): Nice to have. People nod when you describe the problem but aren't losing sleep over it. Very hard to build a business here unless distribution is nearly free.
  • Imaginary problem (0/10): The founder invented a problem that doesn't resonate with the target market. This happens more often than anyone admits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 12d ago First seen · 83 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 5ad51f6d4b87

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market-reality-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository NOMARJ/sigil (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 1,271 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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