saas-idea-validator SKILL.md skillA
saas-idea-validator from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/saas-idea-validator@git:20260828.f80dcb5Pins git:20260828.f80dcb5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/executive/skills/saas-idea-validator/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260828.f80dcb5, committed Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 4,489 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Evaluates a software or startup idea against problem, market, competition, monetization, defensibility, and execution, and returns a verdict rather than encouragement. Use this when an idea needs pressure-testing before anyone builds, when deciding whether something is worth pursuing, when assessing competition or willingness to pay, or when a validated idea needs a first-customers and MVP plan. Default to scrutiny; the useful answer is usually the unwelcome one.
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
# SaaS idea validator Most ideas fail for reasons visible before any code is written. Finding them costs an hour; not finding them costs a year. ## Interrogate in this order **Problem.** Who has it, how often, and what does it cost them today? An idea survives this only if you can name a specific person and what they currently do instead. "Businesses struggle with X" is not a problem statement — it is a category. The strongest signal is a **workaround**: someone has built a spreadsheet, hired a contractor, or strung tools together to survive this. Paid workarounds are validated demand. **Market.** Who exactly, and how many, and can you reach them? A large market you cannot address cheaply is smaller than a narrow one you can. Ask specifically: where do these people already gather, and what would it cost to reach a hundred of them this month? **Competition.** Established competitors are usually good news — they prove budget exists. The dangerous answers are "nobody is doing this" (usually because it does not work or nobody pays) and "everybody is doing this" with no differentiation. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/saas-idea-validator@sha256:051ffcc723f989f4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260828.f80dcb5, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qyz6fsrn2r52xz7e)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4489 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
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qyz6fsrn2r52xz7e GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/saas-idea-validator GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/051ffcc723f989f47d934d91e22c0c5f998c180d88327907eec662d002a02cfc
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.