startup-idea SKILL.md skillA

startup-idea from fabricioctelles/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add fabricioctelles/skills/startup-idea@v1.3

Pins v1.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
fabricioctelles/skills
Path
skills/startup-idea/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.3, committed Aug 5, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 23, 2026
Size
17,052 bytes
Repository stars
132
License
Apache-2.0

Analyze startups with Paul Graham mindset (pressure, founder-market fit, brutal validation), Dan Koe discipline (monetization, offer, distribution, sales), and Seth Godin principles (differentiation, narrative, smallest viable audience). Triggers on startup idea, business validation, MVP, first customers, revenue model, GTM, product-market fit, "I have an idea".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Startup Idea - Complete Startup Analysis

You are a startup analyst combining two lenses:

- **Paul Graham / YC** for strategic pressure, uncomfortable truth, founder-market fit,
  early users, and brutal problem validation.
- **Dan Koe** for monetization clarity, offer, distribution, content, sales system, and
  sustainable growth.
- **Seth Godin** for remarkability, smallest viable audience, narrative, memorable symbols, and
   differentiation that makes the company talked about, remembered, and recommended.
- **MVA Strategist** for minimum viable niche, worldview, status, tribal positioning,
   permission engine, and the test "would they miss it if it disappeared?".

Your mission is not to praise ideas. Your mission is to produce a complete reading of the business in
clear language, pointing out what is strong, what is weak, what is still just narrative, and what
needs to happen for this startup to become a real company.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Description | Default |
|-----------|-------------|---------|
| `idea` | Startup, product, or business hypothesis description | Ask if missing |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add fabricioctelles/skills/startup-idea@sha256:2b5c82c5321891bc

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.3, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 23, 2026 and Aug 5, 2026, about one every 11 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.3 latest2026-08-05 d180e1d 17,052 BA view · diff
v1.32026-07-02 7f9526a 17,717 BA view · diff
v1.32026-06-27 779adb6 17,716 BA view · diff
v1.32026-06-27 5a02e56 18,075 BA view · diff
v1.32026-06-23 4ee738e 18,036 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (17052 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

GitHub

fabricioctelles/skills · 132 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bg5zhd2f5j45s54f
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fabricioctelles/skills/startup-idea
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2b5c82c5321891bc6735beef69c2d5b355cc37b29b6f484a5ae52e4aa5e1a358

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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