book-market-research

book-market-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from robertguss/claude-code-toolkit. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,972 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A market assessment for nonfiction books intended for Amazon KDP, Amazon’s self-publishing service. It examines demand, competing books, prices, and how the book could be positioned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a market research report, viability scorecard, and Go/No-Go recommendation for a book concept.
Why use it?
It helps an author judge the business prospects of an idea before spending months writing it. It separates market potential from whether the idea is intellectually good.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to prepare a market research report, viability scorecard, and Go/No-Go recommendation for a book concept.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit/book-market-research
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 robertguss/claude-code-toolkit --skill book-market-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,972 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00083 $0.01972
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00986
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00197

Measured 8d ago against content hash 152a9483358f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-market-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 8d 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/non-fiction-book-factory/book-market-research/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Research

Determine if a book is worth writing from a business perspective, specifically for Amazon KDP self-publishing.

Core Philosophy

Commercial viability is separate from intellectual merit. A brilliant idea can fail commercially. A mediocre idea can succeed. This skill assesses the market, not the idea itself.

Better to know the odds now. Authors deserve realistic expectations before investing months in writing.

Author intent shapes interpretation. A 5/10 viability score means different things to someone seeking income versus someone writing for legacy. Same data, different recommendations.

Claude does the analysis; human gathers the data Claude can't access. Claude performs qualitative research via web search. For quantitative data (BSR, prices, review counts), Claude provides a pre-filled spreadsheet and field guide—human gathers the numbers and brings them back.

Dependency Model

Standalone Mode: Book Concept Document only → pure commercial analysis. Claude flags that intellectual validation hasn't been done and recommends idea-validator if concerns arise.

Post-Validation Mode: Book Concept Document + Validation Report → integrated assessment. Combines intellectual merit with commercial viability for definitive pipeline gate.

Author Intent

Ask before researching. Author intent determines how to interpret the viability score.

Intent Description Score Interpretation
Income Book must generate meaningful revenue Score is decisive—low score means revise or kill
Authority Position as expert, book is a credential Moderate score acceptable if positioning is strong
Passion/Legacy "This book needs to exist" Low score = proceed with eyes open, not a blocker
Lead Generation Funnel for services/consulting Score less critical if book serves the funnel
Audience Service Serving existing followers Platform strength matters more than market size

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 248 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 152a9483358f

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book-market-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertguss/claude-code-toolkit (113 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,972 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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