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.
npx skills add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill market-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/market-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/market-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/market-research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/market-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/market-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00050 | $0.02604 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00025 | $0.01302 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00521 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00260 |
Grade A, and why
market-research 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Market Research & Competitive Analysis
Markets matter more than ideas. This skill helps you evaluate whether your market is worth entering — and how to validate demand before you build.
Core Principles
- A mediocre product in a great market beats a brilliant product in a dead one.
- All market sizing is wrong. The goal is order-of-magnitude clarity, not decimal precision.
- Competitors are evidence that demand exists. Zero competitors is a warning sign, not an advantage.
- The best solo-founder markets have high pain, fragmented incumbents, and willingness to pay — not the biggest TAM.
- Research is only useful if it changes a decision. Every analysis should end with a clear recommendation.
Early Validation: Before You Build Anything
Finding Your First 10 People to Talk To
Before doing market sizing, validate that real people have this problem.
Method 1: Cold Outreach (Fastest — 1-2 weeks)
- LinkedIn: Search for your ICP's job title → send connection request with a note
- Twitter/X: Search hashtags related to the problem → DM active posters
- Reddit: Find niche subreddits → comment helpfully → DM engaged users
- Email: Find company websites of target customers → reach out to founders/decision-makers
Cold outreach template:
Subject: Quick question about [problem area]
Hi [Name],
I'm researching how [ICP role] handles [specific problem]. I noticed you [signal that they have this problem — e.g., posted about it, work in relevant role, use a competing tool].
Would you be open to a 15-minute call this week? I'm not selling anything — just trying to understand the problem better before I build a solution.
Happy to share what I learn from the research as a thank you.
[Your name]
Method 2: Communities (Higher quality — 2-4 weeks)
- Indie Hackers: Search for threads where your ICP discusses the problem
- Facebook Groups: Search for niche groups (e.g., "Freelance Copywriters", "SaaS Founders")
- Slack communities: Industry-specific channels, FounderPath, etc.
- Discord: More engaged than most channels for technical audiences
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 270 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 0fd38ef40ba8
market-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,604 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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