Agent skill

Solo Business Idea Review

by manor-os in manor-os/manor-ai

Audit, compare, and stress-test a one-person business, side project, productized service, digital product, niche software, creator offer, or micro-business idea before major investment.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Solo Business Idea Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add manor-os/manor-ai --skill solo-business-idea-review -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install manor-os/manor-ai solo-business-idea-review --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manor-os/manor-ai.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/packages/core/ai/skills/solo-business-idea-review .claude/skills/solo-business-idea-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
solo-business-idea-review
GitHub stars
162
Token cost
~3.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,566 words
Files
9 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
21
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Audit, compare, and stress-test a one-person business, side project, productized service, digital product, niche software, creator offer, or micro-business idea before major investment.

  • Works in 8 steps: Normalize the idea → Define the decision and evidence bar → Run the hard-blocker screen → …
  • Someone asks whether an idea is worth pursuing
  • SKILL.md covers Operating Contract, Modes, Dependency Rule and Evidence Routes, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Solo Business Idea Review is an agent skill from manor-os/manor-ai. Audit, compare, and stress-test a one-person business, side project, productized service, digital product, niche software, creator offer, or micro-business idea before major investment. Use when someone asks whether an idea is worth pursuing, wants a go/no-go review, needs current evidence checked, wants hard blockers or the riskiest assumption identified, or needs a cheap validation experiment. Produces an evidence ledger, solo-operability scorecard, pre-mortem, explicit verdict, and next test without pretending…

Its SKILL.md is about 3.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 10 other files, including reference files (for example `config.json`, `examples/professional-solo-business-idea-review.md` and `references/decision-template.md`).

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering Load testing and Feature launches and release readiness. The repository describes itself as: Source-available, self-hosted AI agent workspace for small businesses and lean teams — with BYOK, workflows, tools, and human approvals.

When your agent uses it

  • Someone asks whether an idea is worth pursuing
  • Wants a go/no-go review
  • Needs current evidence checked
  • Wants hard blockers

Example prompts

  • “/solo-business-idea-review”

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Normalize the idea
  2. Define the decision and evidence bar
  3. Run the hard-blocker screen
  4. Audit eight dimensions
  5. Red-team the current form
  6. Give an explicit verdict
  7. Design the next decisive experiment
  8. Deliver at the requested depth

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 140c09a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Solo Business Idea Review loads about 3.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~8.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 144 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,566 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~144
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~8.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,566 words (~3,130 tokens).

“Help the user make a better investment decision, not feel reassured. Separate what is known from what is merely plausible, judge the idea as a one-person operation, state an explicit verdict, and design the cheapest experiment that could materially change…”

— opening of SKILL.md by manor-os, Custom licence
name
solo-business-idea-review
version
1.1.0

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (references) in packages/core/ai/skills/solo-business-idea-review of manor-os/manor-ai.

  • SKILL.md
  • config.json
  • examples/professional-solo-business-idea-review.md
  • references/decision-template.md
  • references/evidence-protocol.md
  • references/experiment-library.md
  • references/manor-execution-check.md
  • references/review-scorecard.md
  • references/upstream-sources.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 140c09a

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Questions about Solo Business Idea Review

What does Solo Business Idea Review do?

Audit, compare, and stress-test a one-person business, side project, productized service, digital product, niche software, creator offer, or micro-business idea before major investment. Solo Business Idea Review is an agent skill from manor-os/manor-ai. Audit, compare, and stress-test a one-person business, side project, productized service, digital product, niche software, creator offer, or micro-business idea before major investment.

When should I use Solo Business Idea Review?

Solo Business Idea Review fits situations like: someone asks whether an idea is worth pursuing; wants a go/no-go review; needs current evidence checked; wants hard blockers.

How do I install Solo Business Idea Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add manor-os/manor-ai --skill solo-business-idea-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/core/ai/skills/solo-business-idea-review in manor-os/manor-ai) into .claude/skills/solo-business-idea-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Solo Business Idea Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add manor-os/manor-ai --skill solo-business-idea-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/core/ai/skills/solo-business-idea-review in manor-os/manor-ai) into .agents/skills/solo-business-idea-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Solo Business Idea Review in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add manor-os/manor-ai --skill solo-business-idea-review -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/solo-business-idea-review, .gemini/skills/solo-business-idea-review, .github/skills/solo-business-idea-review and .opencode/skills/solo-business-idea-review in your project.

What does Solo Business Idea Review need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Solo Business Idea Review is instructions for the agent only.

Does Solo Business Idea Review access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Solo Business Idea Review safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Solo Business Idea Review use?

Solo Business Idea Review has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Solo Business Idea Review use?

About 3.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 13k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 5.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Solo Business Idea Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Solo Business Idea Review: Performance Capacity (majiayu000/spellbook, 287 stars), Schematic (blader/schematic, 241 stars), Verification Gates (rohitg00/skillkit, 1.5k stars) and Customize (anthropics/claude-for-legal, 9.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Solo Business Idea Review?

manor-os (a GitHub organization) maintains it in manor-os/manor-ai, which has 162 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 7, 2026.

Source: manor-os/manor-ai on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.