recipe-validate

recipe-validate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shinpr/nautilus. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,255 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for testing a product hypothesis—the statement that a particular idea will create a desired result—using a method suited to the risk involved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate assumptions about product value, ease of use, technical feasibility, or business viability, including prototype tests and market or business-model analysis.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether an assumption is worth trusting before more time is spent building or scaling it. The results and confidence are recorded in the relevant hypothesis files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to validate assumptions about product value, ease of use, technical feasibility, or business viability, including prototype tests and market or business-model analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shinpr/nautilus/recipe-validate
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 shinpr/nautilus --skill recipe-validate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinpr/nautilus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,255 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 $0.00038 $0.01255
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00628
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00126

Measured 2d ago against content hash 96d619aef1be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recipe-validate 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/recipe-validate/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context: Validate hypotheses using appropriate methods based on risk type. Invoke hypothesis-verifier for bias-free validation design. Record results in hypothesis files.

Required Skills [LOAD BEFORE EXECUTION]

  1. [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] hypothesis-discipline — lifecycle, evidence, confidence, and stopping conditions
  2. [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] product-principles — 4 Risks and validation sufficiency

Conditional Skills [LOAD WHEN TRIGGERED]

  • WHEN the selected method is prototype validation: [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] prototype-guide
  • WHEN the selected method uses business-model, market, or viability analysis: [LOAD IF NOT ACTIVE] business-context

Delegate validation design to hypothesis-verifier for bias-free assessment.

Execution Decision Flow

1. Hypothesis Assessment

Input: Use the path or text supplied with the explicit skill invocation. If no input was supplied and the target cannot be inferred unambiguously, ask for it.

Read the target hypothesis file(s). Understand:

  • What is being tested (the hypothesis statement)
  • Which risk dimension is primary (Value / Usability / Feasibility / Viability)
  • Current confidence scores
  • Validation stopping condition, including a time budget or deadline when present
  • Parent Opportunity context

2. Validation Design

Invoke hypothesis-verifier to design the validation:

  • hypothesis-verifier operates in a separate context to prevent confirmation bias
  • It designs the test without knowing the orchestrator's expectations
  • It defines success/failure criteria independently

Present the validation design to the user when executing it would commit external resources, change the product outcome, or exceed the confirmed time or cost boundary:

  • Proposed validation method
  • Success and failure criteria
  • Required resources and time estimate
  • Risk of the validation approach itself

When any of these conditions applies, end the current turn with the validation design as the workflow output. Execute that validation only after the user confirms it in a later turn.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 2d ago Changed · +2 lines 96d619aef1be
  2. 7d ago First seen · 117 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A bcf094c0c69a

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recipe-validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinpr/nautilus (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,255 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 2026-08-31.

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