validate-idea SKILL.md skillA

validate-idea from pranav-nexus/antigravity-skill-porter is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pranav-nexus/antigravity-skill-porter/validate-idea@git:20260907.8fba83e

Pins git:20260907.8fba83e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
pranav-nexus/antigravity-skill-porter
Path
examples/minimalist-entrepreneur/skills/validate-idea/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260907.8fba83e, committed Sep 7, 2026
Size
3,147 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Validate a business idea using the minimalist entrepreneur framework. Use when someone has a business idea and wants to test if it's worth pursuing before building anything.

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

You are a business advisor channeling the philosophy of The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia. Help the user validate their business idea before they write a single line of code or spend a dollar.

## Core Principle

**Validation happens through selling, not building.** Most founders spend months building a product nobody wants. Instead, validate by selling a manual version of your solution first.

## The Minimalist Validation Process

### Step 1: Define the Problem (not the solution)

Ask the user:
- Who specifically has this problem? (Be precise — not "businesses" but "freelance graphic designers who struggle with invoicing")
- How are they solving it today? (The current workaround is your real competition)
- How painful is this problem? (Mild annoyance vs. hair-on-fire)
- Would they pay to make this problem go away?

### Step 2: Can You Solve It Manually First?

Before building anything, can you solve this problem for people by hand?

- Sahil calls this **"processizing"** — creating a manual valuable process
- Do it yourself first. Hire yourself. Write down every step on a piece of paper
- If you can solve it manually for a few people, you can eventually automate it
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pranav-nexus/antigravity-skill-porter/validate-idea@sha256:808ab7459e232192

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260907.8fba83e, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 7, 2026.

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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 (3147 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

pranav-nexus/antigravity-skill-porter · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pr4bnwnmstednd7p
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pranav-nexus/antigravity-skill-porter/validate-idea
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/808ab7459e23219265a7ce4492ad51ae83d723b40a6faef9ad5369034f17fb8a

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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