idea-validator

idea-validator is a skill for Claude Code from tuliosousapro/SaaS-blueprint. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,156 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured framework for judging whether a product idea is worth pursuing. It scores the problem, target users, solution, business model, and differentiation using market research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate a new idea or pivot, compare product directions, and decide whether to move into validation.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weak demand, low willingness to pay, or a poor fit before significant resources are committed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the SaaS-blueprint plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to evaluate a new idea or pivot, compare product directions, and decide whether to move into validation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tuliosousapro/saas-blueprint/idea-validator
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 tuliosousapro/SaaS-blueprint --skill idea-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tuliosousapro/SaaS-blueprint

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install SaaS-blueprint, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,156 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 $0.00035 $0.01156
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00578
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00231
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00116

Measured 9d ago against content hash dd896a68c0d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-validator 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 9d 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/idea-validator/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Validator Skill

When to Use

  • After completing Phase 0 (Idea) before entering Phase 1 (Validation)
  • When the user proposes a new idea or pivot
  • When deciding between multiple product directions
  • As a sanity check before committing resources

Tools Required

Tool Purpose
firecrawl_search Validate market signals, demand indicators
firecrawl_extract Pull data from market reports, forums

Instructions

1. Collect Idea Inputs

Get from the user (or from completed Phase 0 deliverables):

  • Problem statement: What pain does this solve?
  • Target user: Who has this pain? (be specific: role, company size, industry)
  • Proposed solution: How does this solve it? (one sentence)
  • Revenue model: How does this make money?
  • Differentiator: Why can't they just use {existing solution}?

2. Score on 5 Dimensions

Each dimension scored 1-5. Total score determines recommendation.

A. Problem Severity (1-5)
Score Criteria
1 Nice-to-have. Users tolerate current solutions fine.
2 Mild annoyance. Users complain but don't switch.
3 Real pain. Users actively search for alternatives.
4 Hair-on-fire. Users lose money/time daily without a solution.
5 Mission-critical. Business cannot function without solving this.

Validate with:

firecrawl_search: "{problem_statement} pain point frustrated"
firecrawl_search: "site:reddit.com {target_user} struggling with {problem}"
B. Willingness to Pay (1-5)
Score Criteria
1 Users expect free. No existing paid solutions.
2 Users pay reluctantly. < $10/mo willingness.
3 Established paid market. $10-50/mo common.
4 Users budget for this. $50-200/mo normal.
5 Enterprise budgets. $200+/mo, multi-seat deals.

Validate with:

firecrawl_search: "{category} pricing SaaS"
firecrawl_search: "{competitor} pricing plans"
C. Market Timing (1-5)
Score Criteria
1 Market is saturated or declining.
2 Market exists but growth is flat.
3 Growing market with room for new entrants.
4 Emerging market with strong tailwinds (AI, regulation, etc.).
5 Category creation opportunity — no one owns this yet.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 129 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A dd896a68c0d4

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idea-validator is a skill published in the GitHub repository tuliosousapro/SaaS-blueprint (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,156 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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