Agent skill

Vc Feasibility Test

by withkynam in withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit

A skill your agent uses when a SPEC, INNOVATE, or VALIDATE (Layer 2) approach hinges on an unverified runtime/library/external mechanism: run a probe from the 8-family taxonomy and produce a…

MITAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Vc Feasibility Test

skills CLI
$ npx skills add withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit --skill vc-feasibility-test -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit vc-feasibility-test --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/withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/vc-feasibility-test .claude/skills/vc-feasibility-test && 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
vc-feasibility-test
GitHub stars
1.1k
Token cost
~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,054 words
Files
5 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
32
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when a SPEC, INNOVATE, or VALIDATE (Layer 2) approach hinges on an unverified runtime/library/external mechanism: run a probe from the 8-family taxonomy and produce a…

  • Works in 8 steps: Read the hypothesis from the… → Pick the probe family (1–8) and its cost… → Confirm the safety gate for that cost… → …
  • VALIDATE (Layer
  • SKILL.md covers Boundary vs…, When To Invoke, Skill Executor and Probe-Method Taxonomy (pick…, plus 5 more sections
  • Runs JavaScript scripts from its folder; calls docker, wrangler and pnpm

What it does

Vc Feasibility Test is an agent skill from withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit. Use when a SPEC, INNOVATE, or VALIDATE (Layer 2) approach hinges on an unverified runtime/library/external mechanism: run a probe from the 8-family taxonomy and produce a VIABLE/NOT-VIABLE/INCONCLUSIVE VERDICT artifact.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/fixtures/validate-feasibility-verdict/fail.md`, `scripts/fixtures/validate-feasibility-verdict/pass-pvl.md` and `scripts/fixtures/validate-feasibility-verdict/pass.md`).

It sits in Testing & QA. The repository describes itself as: Your AI forgets. This remembers. Spec-driven coding harness for vibecoders, product owners, CEOs and real builders — self-improving context memory, 15 agents, 33 skills working…. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • VALIDATE (Layer

Example prompts

  • “/vc-feasibility-test”

Requirements

  • Node.js
  • Docker

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read the hypothesis from the VC-FEASIBILITY-PROBE-NEEDED signal
  2. Pick the probe family (1–8) and its cost class
  3. Confirm the safety gate for that cost class is met. If not → write an
  4. Design the minimal probe within that family
  5. Run the probe empirically — capture actual output, not expected output
  6. Analyze the evidence: does it confirm or refute the hypothesis?
  7. Assign a verdict: VIABLE | NOT-VIABLE | INCONCLUSIVE
  8. Write the VERDICT artifact to the active task folder

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3bcb2f9. 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

    Ships 4 files in scripts/ (JavaScript), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • docker
    • wrangler
    • pnpm
    • bun

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use docker, wrangler and pnpm, 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

Vc Feasibility Test loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,054 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.4k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit at commit 3bcb2f9, republished under its MIT licence (© withkynam). 1,054 words, ~2,387 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/vc-feasibility-test/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
vc-feasibility-test
description
Use when a SPEC, INNOVATE, or VALIDATE (Layer 2) approach hinges on an unverified runtime/library/external mechanism: run a probe from the 8-family taxonomy and produce a VIABLE/NOT-VIABLE/INCONCLUSIVE VERDICT artifact.
argument-hint
[hypothesis] [task-folder] [probe-family]
trigger_keywords
feasibility, spike, verify assumption, probe mechanism, empirical check, unverified mechanism, does this work, runtime quirk, api shape check
layer
contract
metadata.author
vibecode-pro-max-kit
metadata.version
2.0.0

vc-feasibility-test

Output style: Follow process/development-protocols/communication-standards.md — answer-first, plain language, no unexplained jargon, TL;DR on long responses.

One-shot empirical probe skill. Used when SPEC or INNOVATE encounters an approach hinging on an unverified external/runtime/library mechanism — the question is "does this mechanism actually work the way the design assumes?", asked before the decision locks.

Boundary vs vc-test-coverage-plan

These two skills are complementary and must not be confused:

  • vc-feasibility-test (this skill) = PRE-decision. "Does the mechanism work at all?" Run before SPEC/INNOVATE locks an approach, when the answer is unknown. Output: a one-shot VERDICT artifact.
  • vc-test-coverage-plan = POST-plan. "How do I cover this blast radius across the 4 test tiers?" Run after a plan exists, when the design is already chosen. Output: a per-area tier table.

If the approach is already decided and you are assigning test tiers → use vc-test-coverage-plan. If you cannot decide because a mechanism is unverified → use this skill first.

When To Invoke

  • When vc-spec-agent, vc-innovate-agent, or a vc-validate-agent Layer 2 dimension agent emits VC-FEASIBILITY-PROBE-NEEDED
  • When a mechanism cannot be verified from source code alone
  • One-shot: not an iterative loop (use vc-autoresearch for iteration)

Skill Executor

Always executed by vc-debugger (via the VC-FEASIBILITY-PROBE-NEEDED signal routing in orchestration.md). SPEC, INNOVATE, and VALIDATE Layer 2 agents do not run probes themselves.

Probe-Method Taxonomy (pick one family)

Every probe belongs to one of these 8 families. Name the chosen family in the VERDICT. Each family has a default cost/safety class (see next section) — the probe inherits it.

#FamilyWhat it probesTypical methodDefault cost class
1Local process / Node scriptpure library/runtime behavior in isolationrun a .mjs/Bun script, regex/parse check, call the lib fn directlycheap-local
2Unit/integration test harnessbehavior under the project's own test runnerpnpm --filter … test (Vitest) or bun test on a scratch casecheap-local
3tRPC / Prisma / DB queryroute shape, query behavior, index/constraint semanticshit a tRPC route or run a Prisma/raw-SQL query against a test DBneeds-container (only if it needs the live app DB) / else cheap-local
4External API shape capturereal response shape/behavior of a 3rd-party APIone live request to OpenRouter / Stripe / Composio / Clerk / Bright Dataneeds-live-provider
5Container exec / internal-port curlin-container service behavior, proxy injection, file-server, supervisorddocker exec … curl http://localhost:{port} on a disposable containerneeds-container
6Browser / CDP captureanti-detect quirks, CDP events, SPA nav, popup behaviorPlaywright/CDP client, page.on(...), snapshotneeds-browser
7WS / SSE handshake & timinggateway WS framing, SSE delivery/reconnect, JSONL shaperaw ws/EventSource client + frame/timing captureneeds-container (if against in-container service) / else cheap-local
8Cloudflare worker runtimeKV staleness, step-replay/idempotency, edge JWT verifywrangler dev + curl, deploy a throwaway workerneeds-cf

If none of the 8 fit, the question is probably not a feasibility probe — reconsider whether vc-research-agent (unknown context) or vc-test-coverage-plan (known design) is the right tool instead.

Probe Cost / Safety Class (MANDATORY GATE)

Every VERDICT declares one cost class. The class governs whether the probe may run unattended or needs explicit opt-in. A probe that cannot be run within its safety gate produces an INCONCLUSIVE verdict — it is never silently skipped or faked.

Cost classSafety gateIf gate not met
cheap-localnone — run freely (local script, test harness, parse check)n/a
needs-containeruse a disposable container only. NEVER docker exec the shared dev container (app-*) or shared Postgres. Disposable live-E2E containers need the disposable-cleanup env gate enabled.verdict INCONCLUSIVE, note "no disposable container available"
needs-live-providerrequires explicit double opt-in from the user before any billed/live 3rd-party call (OpenRouter, Stripe, Composio, Bright Data, Clerk). Default local mode is BYOK Mistral.verdict INCONCLUSIVE, note "live-provider opt-in not granted"
needs-browsera browser/CDP session must be available; never drive a shared user sessionverdict INCONCLUSIVE, note "no browser session available"
needs-cfa wrangler dev/throwaway-worker sandbox; never touch a deployed production workerverdict INCONCLUSIVE, note "no CF sandbox available"

The emitted VC-FEASIBILITY-PROBE-NEEDED signal SHOULD carry the anticipated cost class so the orchestrator can resolve the opt-in gate before dispatching vc-debugger (see orchestration.md §VC-FEASIBILITY-PROBE-NEEDED Signal Routing).

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Probe Execution Steps

  1. Read the hypothesis from the VC-FEASIBILITY-PROBE-NEEDED signal
  2. Pick the probe family (1–8) and its cost class
  3. Confirm the safety gate for that cost class is met. If not → write an INCONCLUSIVE verdict with the gate-not-met reason and stop. Do NOT escalate to a higher-cost probe or run against a shared resource.
  4. Design the minimal probe within that family
  5. Run the probe empirically — capture actual output, not expected output
  6. Analyze the evidence: does it confirm or refute the hypothesis?
  7. Assign a verdict: VIABLE | NOT-VIABLE | INCONCLUSIVE
  8. Write the VERDICT artifact to the active task folder

VERDICT Artifact Format

Filename: {slug}_FEASIBILITY_{dd-mm-yy}.md Location: same active task folder as the SPEC/plan that triggered the probe

Required frontmatter fields (MUST be present — validated by validate-feasibility-verdict.mjs):

yaml
---
slug: [task-slug]
date: YYYY-MM-DD
verdict: VIABLE | NOT-VIABLE | INCONCLUSIVE
originating-phase: spec | innovate | pvl
---

The originating-phase: field is REQUIRED. Valid values:

  • spec — probe triggered by vc-spec-agent ([SP3])
  • innovate — probe triggered by vc-innovate-agent ([I2.5])
  • pvl — probe triggered by vc-validate-agent Layer 2 ([V2-PROBE])

Required sections (MUST be present — validated by validate-feasibility-verdict.mjs):

Hypothesis

One-sentence statement of what is being tested.

Mechanism Under Test

The specific external, runtime, or library behavior being probed.

Probe Family

One of the 8 families above (e.g. 5 — Container exec / internal-port curl).

Probe Cost Class

One of: cheap-local | needs-container | needs-live-provider | needs-browser | needs-cf. State whether the safety gate was met.

Probe Method

The exact command(s) or steps run to test the hypothesis.

Evidence Captured

The raw output from the probe (trimmed to relevant lines). For an INCONCLUSIVE gate-not-met verdict, state explicitly that the probe was not run and why.

Verdict

One of: VIABLE | NOT-VIABLE | INCONCLUSIVE

Resulting Design Constraint

The "action consequence" of the probe, split into three explicit parts:

  • What this licenses: what the approach is now allowed to depend on.
  • What this forbids: what the approach must NOT depend on.
  • What remains uncertain (known-gap): what the probe did not settle and must be treated as an open risk (for INCONCLUSIVE, this is the main content).

Completion Signal

After writing the VERDICT artifact, emit:

VC-FEASIBILITY-VERDICT-READY: [verdict keyword] — [full path to VERDICT file]

Example:

VC-FEASIBILITY-VERDICT-READY: NOT-VIABLE — process/features/model-selector/active/model-selector_10-06-26/model-selector_FEASIBILITY_10-06-26.md

Re-spawn Handoff

The orchestrator reads the VERDICT artifact and extracts a Prior Feasibility: summary. Format passed to the re-spawned agent:

Prior Feasibility: [hypothesis] — verdict: [VIABLE|NOT-VIABLE|INCONCLUSIVE] — licenses: [one line] — forbids: [one line] — uncertain: [one line]

Example:

Prior Feasibility: Does the gateway forward params.provider.sort? — verdict: NOT-VIABLE — licenses: nothing new — forbids: any approach depending on params.provider.sort being forwarded (the layer strips it) — uncertain: whether a different forwarding field survives

The re-spawned SPEC, INNOVATE, or VALIDATE agent reads this block and uses the verdict to lock or reject the approach. When originating-phase: pvl, the re-spawned vc-validate-agent resumes from V1 and records resolved probes in a ## Feasibility Probes Resolved subsection of the validate-contract (omitted when no probe ran).

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Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (scripts) in .claude/skills/vc-feasibility-test of withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/fixtures/validate-feasibility-verdict/fail.md
  • scripts/fixtures/validate-feasibility-verdict/pass-pvl.md
  • scripts/fixtures/validate-feasibility-verdict/pass.md
  • scripts/validate-feasibility-verdict.mjs

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3bcb2f9

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Questions about Vc Feasibility Test

What does Vc Feasibility Test do?

A skill your agent uses when a SPEC, INNOVATE, or VALIDATE (Layer 2) approach hinges on an unverified runtime/library/external mechanism: run a probe from the 8-family taxonomy and produce a…. Vc Feasibility Test is an agent skill from withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit. Use when a SPEC, INNOVATE, or VALIDATE (Layer 2) approach hinges on an unverified runtime/library/external mechanism: run a probe from the 8-family taxonomy and produce a VIABLE/NOT-VIABLE/INCONCLUSIVE VERDICT artifact.

When should I use Vc Feasibility Test?

Vc Feasibility Test fits situations like: VALIDATE (Layer.

How do I install Vc Feasibility Test in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit --skill vc-feasibility-test -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/vc-feasibility-test in withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit) into .claude/skills/vc-feasibility-test in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Vc Feasibility Test in Codex?

Run `npx skills add withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit --skill vc-feasibility-test -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/vc-feasibility-test in withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit) into .agents/skills/vc-feasibility-test in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Vc Feasibility Test 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 withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit --skill vc-feasibility-test -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/vc-feasibility-test, .gemini/skills/vc-feasibility-test, .github/skills/vc-feasibility-test and .opencode/skills/vc-feasibility-test in your project.

What does Vc Feasibility Test need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Vc Feasibility Test needs JavaScript for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (docker, wrangler, pnpm and bun). Our summary lists: Node.js; Docker.

Does Vc Feasibility Test access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use docker, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Vc Feasibility Test 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Vc Feasibility Test use?

Vc Feasibility Test is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Vc Feasibility Test use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Vc Feasibility Test?

withkynam (a GitHub user) maintains it in withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit, which has 1,145 GitHub stars. The repository holds 32 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 21, 2026.

Source: withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.