validate-idea

validate-idea is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pivyme/suiperpower. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,740 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of a Sui product idea, covering customer demand, competing products, practical feasibility, and fit with Sui.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research and assess a Sui concept, then make a go-or-no-go recommendation.
Why use it?
It exposes weak assumptions and important unknowns before time is spent building the idea.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the suiper plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to research and assess a Sui concept, then make a…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pivyme/suiperpower/validate-idea
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 pivyme/suiperpower --skill validate-idea
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pivyme/suiperpower

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install suiper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,740 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

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 $0.00042 $0.01740
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00870
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00174

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6ec9672ab593, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

validate-idea 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 7d 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.

core/skills/idea/validate-idea/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preamble (run first)

# Suiperpower telemetry. Routes through the CLI so projects.json + Convex stay in sync.
# Silent on failure so the skill never blocks. Opt out: SUIPERPOWER_TELEMETRY=off.
#
# AGENT NOTE: when this skill finishes, run the matching completion command:
#   suiperpower track validate-idea idea completed
# Or use "failed" / "aborted" if it ended that way.
command -v suiperpower >/dev/null 2>&1 && suiperpower track validate-idea idea started >/dev/null 2>&1 &
true

If TEL_PROMPTED is no, before doing real work, ask the user:

Help suiperpower get better. We track which skills get used and how long they take. No code, no file paths, no PII. Change anytime in ~/.suiperpower/config.json.

A) Sure, anonymous B) No thanks

Write the answer to ~/.suiperpower/config.json telemetryTier field and create ~/.suiperpower/.telemetry-prompted. Then continue.

What this skill does

Pressure tests a Sui product idea on four dimensions, demand evidence, competition, feasibility (real research-grade unknowns only, not "this sounds like a lot of code"), and Sui-native fit, and produces a written go/no-go recommendation. The skill is designed to kill weak ideas early. A "no go" with a clear reason is more valuable than a "go" with hand-waving. With AI-assisted pacing, do not kill ideas on apparent scope alone, application-layer scope is rarely the bottleneck.

When to use it

  • After find-next-sui-idea has written a chosen idea to .suiperpower/idea-context.md and the user wants a second pass before scaffolding.
  • The user has an idea (their own, not from the corpus) and wants pressure testing.
  • The user is mid-build and questioning whether to continue. Late validation is still useful.

When NOT to use it

  • The user has not picked an idea yet. Route to find-next-sui-idea.
  • The user wants competitive landscape only. Route to competitive-landscape.
  • The user wants a brutal critique of the existing product. Route to roast-my-product.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 7d ago First seen · 139 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 6ec9672ab593

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validate-idea is a skill published in the GitHub repository pivyme/suiperpower (12 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,740 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.