/before-you-build
Pre-build product and feature risk review for founders, product managers, and AI-assisted builders. Use this skill when the user is about to build a landing page, MVP, SaaS product, internal tool, agent workflow, or major feature and needs to check demand, positioning,
One skill from wshobson-agents.
shell
$ npx -y skills add wshobson/agents --skill before-you-build --agent claude-codeInstalls just this skill. Get the whole plugin for auto-invocation.
How it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/before-you-build
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Pre-build product and feature risk review for founders, product managers, and AI-assisted builders. Use this skill when the user is about to build a landing page, MVP, SaaS product, internal tool, agent workflow, or major feature and needs to check demand, positioning,
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Stars38,174
Forks4,092
LanguagePython
LicenseMIT
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SKILL.md
before-you-build.SKILL.md
--- name: before-you-build description: Pre-build product and feature risk review for founders, product managers, and AI-assisted builders. Use this skill when the user is about to build a landing page, MVP, SaaS product, internal tool, agent workflow, or major feature and needs to check demand, positioning, monetization, retention, trust, distribution, and adoption risk before implementation starts. --- # Before You Build Run a compact pre-mortem before implementation. The goal is not to block building; it is to identify the highest-risk assumption, the smallest validation step, and the build scope that should be delayed until evidence improves. ## When To Use Use this skill when a user asks to build or ship: - A new product, MVP, prototype, landing page, SaaS app, marketplace, content site, agent workflow, or internal tool - A major feature with unclear adoption, revenue, retention, trust, or distribution impact - A public launch asset where weak positioning could waste development or promotion effort Skip this skill when the task is a narrow implementation fix, refactor, test repair, dependency update, or already-validated change with clear acceptance criteria. ## Risk Checklist Review the idea across these risks: - **Demand:** Is there evidence that a specific buyer or user urgently wants this? - **Positioning:** Can the target user understand what it is and why it matters in one sentence?
