mom-test

mom-test is a skill for Claude Code from VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm. It costs 135 tokens per session (4,781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to customer interviews based on The Mom Test, a method for asking about real past behaviour rather than pitching an idea or seeking compliments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan customer interviews, test an idea, and investigate why people say they want something but do not buy it.
Why use it?
It reduces misleading feedback caused by leading questions and polite claims that customers would use a product.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the great-pm plugin — 114 skills, 34 commands, 48 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan customer interviews, test an idea, and investigate why people say they want something but do not buy it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/mom-test
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 VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm --skill mom-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 114 skills, 34 commands, 48 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,781 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 $0.00135 $0.04781
Opus 5.5 $0.00054 $0.01912
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00956
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00478

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e248f8798113, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mom-test 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 1mo 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.

plugins/great-pm/skills/mom-test/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codex host binding

  • Treat references to Claude slash workflows as the equivalently named Codex skill.
  • Before delegating to any specialist, read the great-pm-runtime skill and the selected packaged role file.
  • Treat "invoke", "assign", "delegate", "spawn", and source Agent-tool instructions as a required Codex spawn_agent call with that role and a bounded assignment.
  • For the spawn tool's task_name or agent_name identifier, replace canonical role-name hyphens with underscores (query-refiner-pm → query_refiner_pm). Keep canonical names unchanged in prompts, filenames, verdict logs, and user-facing output; this is an internal identifier mapping, not a role rename.
  • Store every returned agent identifier. Never call a wait tool until a spawn has returned an identifier, and wait only on identifiers returned by successful spawns.
  • If spawn_agent is unavailable or a spawn fails, report BLOCKED; do not impersonate the specialist or wait on an empty agent set.
  • Resolve bundled paths from the installed GreatPM plugin root.
  • Ignore Claude-only model aliases, colors, turn limits, and tool allowlists.
  • Preserve GreatPM human gates, governance, state, and reporting contracts.

Provenance. Vendored from wondelai/skills@mom-test (MIT License — github.com/wondelai/skills). Adapted into great-pm 2026-05-29 with attribution. Reference deep-dives (references/*.md) live upstream. Host agent: user-researcher.

The Mom Test Framework

Framework for having useful customer conversations that won't lead you astray. Based on a fundamental truth: everyone is lying to you -- not because they're malicious, but because you're asking the wrong questions. Your mom will tell you your idea is great because she loves you. Investors, friends, and even potential customers will do the same. The Mom Test provides rules for asking questions so good that even your mom can't lie to you.

Core Principle

Good customer conversations are about their life, not your idea. The moment you mention what you're building, people switch from sharing truth to performing politeness. They tell you what you want to hear. The antidote is simple: talk about their problems, their lives, and their existing behavior instead of pitching your solution. Ask about specifics in the past, not hypotheticals about the future. And above all, talk less and listen more.

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 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. 1mo ago First seen · 279 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A e248f8798113

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mom-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 4,781 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-21.