mvp-launcher

mvp-launcher is a skill for Codex from san-npm/skills-ws. It costs 79 tokens per session (5,835 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical guide for validating, planning, building, and launching a minimum viable product, or MVP—the smallest version of a product that can test whether people need it. It covers scope, budgets, technology choices, launch preparation, and follow-up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interview users, compare competitors, test a waitlist or fake door, choose what to build or buy, plan a three-week sprint, set up analytics and legal basics, and prepare launch and post-launch work.
Why use it?
It helps reduce wasted development by testing demand before building too much and by defining what success should look like. It also highlights ethical ways to measure interest.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to interview users, compare competitors, test a waitlist or fake door, choose what to build or buy, plan a three-week sprint, set up analytics and legal basics, and prepare launch and post-launch work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/san-npm/skills-ws/mvp-launcher
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 san-npm/skills-ws --skill mvp-launcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/san-npm/skills-ws

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,835 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 $0.00079 $0.05835
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02917
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00583

Measured 12d ago against content hash b3fe4dc4f545, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mvp-launcher 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/mvp-launcher/SKILL.md · 316 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 316 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MVP Launcher

1. Validate Before Building

Minimum validation checklist (do ALL before writing code):

  • Problem interviews with 5+ target users (ask about pain, not your solution — see interview script in §13)
  • Competitor analysis — list top 5, identify gaps
  • Landing page + waitlist (a no-code builder like Carrd, Framer, or a single Next.js page) — target 100+ signups or 5%+ visitor→signup conversion
  • Fake-door test: advertise the feature, measure clicks before building (read the ethics rules below first)
  • Define success metric: "MVP is successful if X users do Y within Z days"

Kill signals: <50 waitlist signups after 500 visits, zero users willing to pay, problem already solved well by incumbents.

Ethical fake-door / waitlist testing — non-negotiable. A fake-door test measures intent, not deception.

  • Disclose state. Label it "Join the waitlist" / "Coming soon" / "Request early access" — never imply a feature exists if clicking can't deliver it. Don't take payment for something you can't ship; if you charge to validate willingness-to-pay, use a refundable pre-order/deposit and say so.
  • Minimize data. Collect only an email (and optionally one qualifying question). No unnecessary PII; no pre-checked marketing opt-ins. State why you're collecting it and add a one-line privacy note + link (see §10).
  • Honor the implied promise. Email everyone who signed up — even if you kill the idea ("we're not building this") — and let them unsubscribe.
  • Don't run misleading paid ads. Ad platforms (and consumer-protection law in the EU/UK/US) prohibit advertising products that don't exist or can't be bought. Frame ads as "early access / beta," not "buy now."

For deeper interview technique and ongoing feedback loops, pair this with the customer-feedback skill; for early-community and waitlist growth tactics, see community-building.

2. Scope with MoSCoW

Priority Definition Example
Must Product is useless without it Core value proposition, auth, data persistence
Should Expected but can workaround Email notifications, search, mobile responsive
Could Nice to have, adds polish Dark mode, export, keyboard shortcuts
Won't Explicitly cut for v1 Admin dashboard, API, integrations, i18n

Read the full file on GitHub · 316 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 316 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A b3fe4dc4f545

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mvp-launcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository san-npm/skills-ws (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 5,835 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 2026-08-31.

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