foundation-build-risk-review

foundation-build-risk-review is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,962 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A quick review of the biggest assumption that could cause a product idea, feature, or scope change to fail. It gives a verdict and a way to test that assumption without writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before building an MVP or feature to decide whether to build a small version, validate first, change direction, or wait.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid committing development time before checking whether the most uncertain part of the idea is believable.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before building an MVP or feature to decide whether to build a small version, validate first, change direction, or wait.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/foundation-build-risk-review
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 product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill foundation-build-risk-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for foundation-build-risk-review

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,962 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 25
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • low Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 $0.00112 $0.01962
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00981
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00196

Measured 12d ago against content hash c8ac85095fdc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

foundation-build-risk-review 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.

skills/foundation-build-risk-review/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build Risk Review

Don't build it yet. First name the one assumption most likely to make it fail.

foundation-build-risk-review is a fast, pre-commitment gate for product decisions. Given an idea, a feature request, or a scope change, it returns a Build Risk Review: the single biggest risk, the evidence behind it, a verdict, and a concrete no-code validation step, then routes you to the skill that does the next piece of work. It is a foundation hub: its job is to triage and dispatch, not to duplicate the deeper skills.

Hard gate

Do not write code, scaffold a project, recommend a stack, or design implementation. First answer three things: should this be built, what is most likely to make it fail, and what must be validated before committing.

If the user says the work is for learning, a portfolio, or internal practice, do not judge it by market standards; still flag scope and clarity risks.

When to Use

  • A product idea, MVP, or new bet is about to turn into build work.
  • A feature request or scope change has arrived and you need to separate real demand from a polite ask, founder anxiety, or competitor-copying.
  • Someone wants a fast "should we build this?" verdict before a PRD, roadmap row, or ticket exists.

When NOT to Use

If the ask is Use instead
A launched product's pivot-or-persevere call, weighing usage or market data iterate-pivot-decision
You have chosen the assumption and need to design the test define-hypothesis
Framing a confirmed problem for the team or leadership define-problem-statement
The full nine-block business model, not a single-risk read foundation-lean-canvas
Ranking many features or initiatives against each other define-prioritization-framework

The boundary that matters most: this skill is forward-looking and pre-commitment (low or no data); iterate-pivot-decision is retrospective and post-launch (it weighs market feedback on something already shipped).

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 12d ago First seen · 114 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A c8ac85095fdc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

foundation-build-risk-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/pm-skills (663 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,962 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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