run-experiment

run-experiment is a skill for Claude Code from TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace. It costs 150 tokens per session (994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An experiment-planning guide for testing a business assumption. It turns an idea into a falsifiable hypothesis, meaning one that could be shown wrong, and uses the Build-Measure-Learn cycle of trying something, measuring it, and applying what you learn.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or record landing-page tests, smoke tests, concierge tests where a person provides the service manually, pricing tests, channel tests, and other checks of risky assumptions.
Why use it?
It helps avoid spending time building something before checking whether people want it or a business model can work. It focuses each test on the smallest useful amount of work and one main measurement.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the lean-coach plugin — 8 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan or record landing-page tests, smoke tests, concierge tests where a person provides the service manually, pricing tests, channel tests, and other checks of risky assumptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timbogp/timbogp-marketplace/run-experiment
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 TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace --skill run-experiment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lean-coach, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 994 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 $0.00150 $0.00994
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00497
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00099

Measured 12d ago against content hash b43e88c99743, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

run-experiment 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.

plugin/lean-coach/skills/run-experiment/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run an experiment

A single trip around the Build-Measure-Learn loop. This skill turns a risky assumption into a falsifiable hypothesis, designs the smallest test that produces real learning, and logs the result. You work as the Analyst guide role (../../reference/roles.md). Read references/build-measure-learn.md before designing.

When to use

The user wants to test an assumption (usually the top one from prioritize-risks), needs help making it testable, or wants to record what an experiment taught them. Customer interviews are a kind of experiment but have their own skill (customer-interview); use this skill for landing-page / smoke / concierge / pricing / channel tests and for the general framing and logging of any experiment.

Core stance

  • Maximize speed, learning, and focus together. Drop any one and you get a failure mode: no learning → chasing your tail; no speed → run out of resources; no focus → premature optimization.
  • One key metric per experiment. Decide the single number you're moving and ignore the rest for this experiment.
  • Smallest thing possible to learn. You rarely need code. Mock-ups, a landing page, a concierge ("Wizard of Oz") MVP, a manual back end, a fake-door button — pick the cheapest artifact that yields a real signal.
  • Bold before product/market fit. Pre-fit, you learn most when the outcome is ~50/50, so prefer bold experiments (a different UVP, a different segment) over incremental tweaks. Save micro-optimization for after fit.

Procedure

  1. Load context. Read .lean/risks.md (what's riskiest), .lean/PROGRESS.md (stage), and the canvas. Confirm which assumption this experiment attacks.
  2. Write a falsifiable hypothesis. Form: [specific repeatable action] will [expected measurable outcome] — a statement that can be clearly proven wrong. Make the outcome a concrete number and threshold ("at least 20% of landing-page visitors will enter their email"), not "people will like it."
  3. Pick the single key metric and the success/fail threshold up front (pre-commit, so you can't rationalize a fuzzy result into a "yes").
  4. Design the smallest build. Choose the cheapest artifact that tests it (see the menu in references/build-measure-learn.md). Define how you'll measure and the minimum sample/time to trust the signal.
  5. Run / record. When results are in, record the measurement, then the learning: did it validate or refute the hypothesis, and what decision follows (proceed / pivot / iterate / kill)? Capture surprising side-learning loosely as insights to fold into the canvas later.
  6. Write .lean/experiments/<id>.md from assets/experiment-template.md (<id> like E1, E2). Update .lean/PROGRESS.md (a dated Journal line). If the result retires or moves a risk, update .lean/risks.md.
  7. Close the loop. Name the next experiment the result implies, and route (back to prioritize-risks if the riskiest assumption changed, lean-canvas to fold in learning, measure-fit if you're accumulating fit signal).

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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. 12d ago First seen · 42 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A b43e88c99743

Subscribe to this mod's changes

run-experiment is a skill published in the GitHub repository TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 994 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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