before-you-build
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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.
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npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill before-you-build -a claude-code
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Byte-identical to the scanned commit, with the repository’s licence and a SOURCE.txt.
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