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Validate a business or product idea with market research, competitor analysis, and a go/no-go recommendation

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$ npx -y skills add CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS --skill idea-validation --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/idea-validation

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Validate a business or product idea with market research, competitor analysis, and a go/no-go recommendation

SKILL.md

idea-validation.SKILL.md
name: idea-validation
description: "Validate a business or product idea with market research, competitor analysis, and a go/no-go recommendation"
version: "1.0.0"
metadata:
  author: CoWork OS Contributors <info@coworkosapp.com>

Idea 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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