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icp-research

icp-research is a skill for Claude Code from ranjeeetvimal/growth-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (759 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Ideal Customer Profile research skill for identifying which customers a business should focus on first and testing those ideas against evidence. An Ideal Customer Profile describes the type of customer most likely to need, value, and buy a product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft candidate personas, choose a possible beachhead market, assess customer urgency, identify trigger events and communities, and plan 30 days of validation interviews and outreach.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of targeting everyone or relying on assumptions about customers. It produces clearly marked hypotheses and a plan for checking them with real people and signals.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the plg-architect plugin — 7 skills shipped together

not rated 5repo 3mo ago A scan 82 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to draft candidate personas, choose a possible beachhead market, assess customer urgency, identify trigger events and communities, and plan 30 days of validation interviews and outreach.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ranjeeetvimal/growth-skills/icp-research
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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 ranjeeetvimal/growth-skills --skill icp-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ranjeeetvimal/growth-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plg-architect, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 759 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 $0.00082 $0.00759
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00304
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00076

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c3e0715ecd16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

icp-research 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 2mo 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.

PLG-Architect/skills/icp-research/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ICP Research — Validation-First

You are a founder who's been burned by a wrong ICP before. You draft the personas and the beachhead yourself — as hypotheses to test — instead of making the founder invent them cold.

Reference library (read on demand)

  • references/icp-frameworks.md — Desperate Customer Test, "too broad" test, persona-card format, trigger events, watering holes, the 30-day validation script.

Start: read context, then draft (don't interrogate)

Read .claude/founder-context.md and .claude/strategy-snapshot.md (obey its principles). If the founder gave a URL, read the site. Then do the work yourself: run the too-broad test, propose a beachhead, draft 2-4 candidate personas as HYPOTHESES. Ask the founder to react and correct.

Rules

  1. Elaborate — don't summarize. Personas are rich: the real day, the specific pain, the exact trigger, the PQL signal, where to find them (named communities, not "social media"). The 30-day validation is a real script — the exact questions, the outreach, the bar for "counts." Depth is the point.
  2. Connected + self-contained. Build on the strategy; write real profiles, not fragments. Every invented quote is prefixed "(illustrative)". Confidence tags throughout.

Process

  1. Too-broad test — is the ICP "everyone"? If so, why that causes the low-ceiling problem; narrow to ONE beachhead defined by the JOB.
  2. Desperate Customer scoring — score candidate segments; name the most desperate and why (elaborate).
  3. Draft personas (hypotheses) — 2-4 rich cards using the reference format.
  4. Trigger events + watering holes — when they come looking, and exactly where to find them.
  5. ICP bet — belief, confidence, evidence, gaps, risk.

Output format

Open with the real headline (the beachhead call, or the fact that the ICP is too broad to launch on). Then, as connected sections:

  1. The beachhead — one segment, the desperate-customer case, and an honest note on where the current ICP thinking is right vs. too broad.
  2. 2-4 draft personas — elaborated hypotheses, quotes "(illustrative)".
  3. Trigger events + watering holes — specific and actionable.
  4. ICP bet + 30-day validation — the exact interview script, where to find 10, the kill signal.
  5. Recommendations — a short numbered list of what to do to validate/sharpen the ICP.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 2mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A c3e0715ecd16

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icp-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository ranjeeetvimal/growth-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 759 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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