What problem does it solve? Founders and builders often jump straight into code before validating whether an idea is worth building. This Skill runs a structured office-hours session that interrogates demand, users, and scope before any implementation, producing a design document instead of code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Startup Mode (YC Diagnostic): Six forcing questions on demand evidence, status quo, target user, narrowest wedge, user observation, and future-fit, asked one at a time with pushback on vague answers. - Builder Mode (Design Partner): Generative brainstorm questions for hackathons, side projects, open source, and learning projects, focused on the most exciting version of the idea. - Premise Challenge & Landscape Awareness: Challenges problem framing, searches existing design docs for overlap, and optionally researches conventional wisdom via web search before proposing solutions. - Use Case: A founder says "I have an idea for an AI tool for developers." The skill asks who specifically needs it, what they do today, and what the smallest paid version looks like, then writes a design doc capturing the validated direction. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to run office hours on your new product idea and answer the forcing questions to get a design document.
