mom-test

mom-test is a skill for Claude Code from wondelai/skills. It costs 135 tokens per session (3,602 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for customer interviews based on The Mom Test, a method for learning about real customer problems without leading people toward a preferred answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write better interview questions, review conversations for leading questions, assess the quality of evidence, and identify whether customers have made real commitments.
Why use it?
It reduces misleading feedback by focusing conversations on the customer's past behavior and concrete experiences instead of compliments or guesses about the future.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the product-strategy plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write better interview questions, review conversations for leading questions, assess the quality of evidence, and identify whether customers have made real commitments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondelai/skills/mom-test
About the project

Wondel.ai Agent Skills is a collection of skills and guided workflows that give coding agents structured methods for business, marketing, UX, website, app, and software-development tasks. It is used with agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, and other agents that support the agentskills.io format. The catalogue entries are the project's skills, plugins, instructions, and rule packaged for those agents.

wondelai/skills · 2,138 stars · on GitHub · skills.wondel.ai

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 wondelai/skills --skill mom-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wondelai/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-strategy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 3,602 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 6 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 6 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.03602
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01801
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00720
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00360

Measured 12d ago against content hash fbf036f31e59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 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.

mom-test/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Mom Test Framework

Framework for customer conversations that won't lead you astray, based on a fundamental truth: everyone is lying to you -- not maliciously, but because you're asking the wrong questions. 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. Talk about their problems, their lives, and their existing behavior instead of pitching, and ask about specifics in the past, not hypotheticals about the future. Above all, talk less and listen more.

Scoring

Goal: 7/7. Score a conversation (or interview plan) by the seven-row Quick Diagnostic below: 1 point per row that passes.

  • 6-7 = focused on their life and past behavior, concrete facts captured, a real commitment (time/reputation/money) secured, they talked 80%+, and beliefs got updated.
  • 4-5 = some past-behavior facts but leaking into hypotheticals, compliments accepted as signal, or ending without an ask.
  • <=3 = a pitch in disguise: leading questions, opinions and fluff, a polite zombie lead, no learning.

Always state the current score out of 7, name the failing diagnostic rows, and give the specific fix for each.

Framework Sections

1. The Mom Test Rules

Core concept: Three rules that make it impossible for even your most supportive loved ones to give you false validation, shifting conversations from opinion-gathering to fact-finding.

Why it works: People are unreliable predictors of their own future behavior, so opinions are worthless. Past behavior is the only reliable data and can genuinely inform product decisions.

Key insights:

  • Rule 1: Talk about their life, not your idea -- never mention your solution until the end, if at all
  • Rule 2: Ask about specifics in the past, not generics or hypotheticals about the future
  • Rule 3: Talk less, listen more -- aim for them to speak 80% of the time
  • A question fails the Mom Test if the answer is always "yes" regardless of whether the business will succeed
  • Good questions could potentially destroy your currently imagined business

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 234 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A fbf036f31e59

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mom-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository wondelai/skills (2,138 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 3,602 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 2026-08-30.

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