About idea-validation
idea-validation is a skill for assessing business or product ideas, including market viability and whether to proceed. It produces a structured report covering market sizing, competitor analysis, an MVP definition, and a go/no-go recommendation.
Key features
- 01Assess market viability
- 02Analyze competitors
- 03Estimate market size
- 04Define an MVP
- 05Provide a go/no-go recommendation
Use cases
- 01Decide whether to pursue a product concept
- 02Assess market opportunity for a business idea
- 03Set an initial MVP scope
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ cowork-os/ cowork-os --skill idea-validationAfter installing, type/idea-validationin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMEIdea Validation
Purpose
Validate a business or product idea with market research, competitor analysis, and a go/no-go recommendation
Routing
- Use when: Use when a user wants to validate an idea, assess market viability, or decide whether to pursue a concept.
- Do not use when: Don't use for ideas that are already validated or when the user just wants competitor research (use competitive-research instead).
- Outputs: Structured validation report with market sizing, competitor analysis, MVP definition, and go/no-go recommendation.
- Success criteria: Provides a clear, data-informed recommendation with specific next steps.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the idea-validation skill for this request.
- Help me with idea validation.
- Use when a user wants to validate an idea, assess market viability, or decide whether to pursue a concept.
- Idea Validation: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- Don't use for ideas that are already validated or when the user just wants competitor research (use competitive-research instead).
- Do not use idea-validation for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside idea validation scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| idea | string | Yes | Description of the business or product idea to validate |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 1560 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in
../idea-validation.json.
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