Validate Idea

What it does

When your agent uses it

• A user says validate this idea
• Is this worth building
• Run a validation sprint
• Help me test demand

Example prompts

• “validate this idea”
• “is this worth building”
• “run a validation sprint”
• “/validate-idea”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Check for .superstack/idea-context.md in the workspace. If found, load the chosen idea. If not, ask the user to describe their idea.
2. 2Read references/validation-framework.md for the sprint structure.
3. 3Evaluate demand signals using references/customer-signal-rubric.md.
4. 4Run the crypto necessity gut-check: "What breaks if you remove the blockchain?"
5. 5Map risks: technical, market, regulatory, team.
6. 6Apply references/pivot-or-persist.md to reach a go/no-go decision.
7. 7Write a local HTML artifact with the validation report.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 38a494a. 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

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  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

Validate Idea loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 70 tokens; SKILL.md has 568 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~70

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.7k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3k

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

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

The full file from sendaifun/solana-new at commit 38a494a, republished under its MIT licence (© sendaifun). 568 words, ~1,714 tokens.

name

validate-idea

description

Run a structured validation sprint on a crypto startup idea. Use when a user says "validate this idea", "is this worth building", "run a validation sprint", "help me test demand", or "should I build this". Reads idea-context.md from a prior idea phase if available.

_TEL_TIER=$(cat ~/.superstack/config.json 2>/dev/null | grep -o '"telemetryTier": *"[^"]*"' | head -1 | sed 's/.*"telemetryTier": *"//;s/"$//'  || echo "anonymous")
_TEL_TIER="${_TEL_TIER:-anonymous}"
_TEL_PROMPTED=$([ -f ~/.superstack/.telemetry-prompted ] && echo "yes" || echo "no")
_TEL_START=$(date +%s)
_SESSION_ID="$$-$(date +%s)"
mkdir -p ~/.superstack
echo "TELEMETRY: $_TEL_TIER"
echo "TEL_PROMPTED: $_TEL_PROMPTED"
if [ "$_TEL_TIER" != "off" ]; then
_TEL_EVENT='{"skill":"validate-idea","phase":"idea","event":"started","ts":"'$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)'"}' 
echo "$_TEL_EVENT" >> ~/.superstack/telemetry.jsonl 2>/dev/null || true
_CONVEX_URL=$(cat ~/.superstack/config.json 2>/dev/null | grep -o '"convexUrl":"[^"]*"' | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f4 || echo "")
[ -n "$_CONVEX_URL" ] && curl -s -X POST "$_CONVEX_URL/api/mutation" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"path":"telemetry:track","args":{"skill":"validate-idea","phase":"idea","status":"success","version":"0.2.0","platform":"'$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)'","timestamp":'$(date +%s)000'}}' >/dev/null 2>&1 &
true
fi

echo '{"telemetryTier":"anonymous"}' > ~/.superstack/config.json
_TEL_TIER="anonymous"
touch ~/.superstack/.telemetry-prompted

echo '{"telemetryTier":"off"}' > ~/.superstack/config.json
_TEL_TIER="off"
touch ~/.superstack/.telemetry-prompted

# Just describe your idea and ask for validation:
#   "Validate this idea: a Solana protocol for agent-to-agent payments"
#   "Is this worth building? [describe idea]"
#   "Run a validation sprint on my idea"

_TEL_END=$(date +%s)
_TEL_DUR=$(( _TEL_END - ${_TEL_START:-$_TEL_END} ))
_TEL_TIER=$(cat ~/.superstack/config.json 2>/dev/null | grep -o '"telemetryTier": *"[^"]*"' | head -1 | sed 's/.*"telemetryTier": *"//;s/"$//' || echo "anonymous")
if [ "$_TEL_TIER" != "off" ]; then
echo '{"skill":"validate-idea","phase":"idea","event":"completed","outcome":"OUTCOME","duration_s":"'"$_TEL_DUR"'","session":"'"$_SESSION_ID"'","ts":"'$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)'","platform":"'$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)'"}' >> ~/.superstack/telemetry.jsonl 2>/dev/null || true
true
fi

© sendaifun, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in skills/idea/validate-idea of sendaifun/solana-new.

• SKILL.md
• agents/openai.yaml
• references/customer-signal-rubric.md
• references/pivot-or-persist.md
• references/validation-framework.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 38a494a