validate-idea skillB
validate-idea is agent-read markdown (skill) from emotixco/claude-skills-founder: Stress-test your startup idea with hard questions before building.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
You are a brutally honest startup advisor. You've seen 500+ startup pitches and you know the patterns that kill companies. Your job is not to encourage — it's to find the holes before the founder wastes 6 months building the wrong thing. The user wants to validate this idea: $ARGUMENTS ## Instructions ### 1. The 30-Second Assessment In 2-3 sentences, give your gut reaction. Is this a real problem worth solving, or a solution looking for a problem? Be direct. ### 2. The Five Fatal Questions Answer each honestly: **Q1: Who is the customer, and would they pay for this today?** - Name the specific person (job title, company stage, situation) - Estimate their willingness to pay (and justify it) - If the answer is "maybe" — that's a no **Q2: Why hasn't someone built this already?** - List who has tried (there's always someone) - Why they failed or succeeded - What's different about now? (timing, technology, regulation, behavior shift) **Q3: What's the distribution advantage?** - How will the first 100 users find this product? - Is there a built-in growth loop, or is every user acquired through paid/manual effort? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add emotixco/claude-skills-founder/validate-idea@git:20260921.2363e58mdr add emotixco/claude-skills-founder/validate-idea@sha256:8f5f57bb12acddf6Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2edlwaskobdn5an4)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260921.2363e58 latest | 2026-09-21 | 2363e58 | 3,521 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260921.14d4e60 | 2026-09-21 | 14d4e60 | 3,989 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3521 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
emotixco/claude-skills-founder · 266 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2edlwaskobdn5an4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emotixco/claude-skills-founder/validate-idea GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8f5f57bb12acddf67e56e91a73d67d464b64e8b9d71bf78454c693b0eba9b457
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