idea-autopsy
Autopsy a business idea before you build it: kill-list check, five hard filters, a free-AI one-prompt test, live ad-market verification, and a verdict with a named kill-pattern.
Profile →npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill idea-autopsy --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Idea Autopsy ## Overview Turns the agent into a ruthless business-idea pathologist: instead of encouraging the user, it hunts for the one sentence that kills an idea — before any money or weeks are spent building it. Built from a real founder kill-list of 42 dead ideas (including a 9/10-scored idea and one that turned out to be federally illegal to charge for). Every autopsy ends in a hard verdict: DEAD with a named kill-pattern, or SURVIVED with the one cheapest test that could still kill it. ## When to Use This Skill - Use when the user proposes a new business, product, or side-project idea - Use when the user asks "should I build X?" or "validate this idea" - Use when the user says "autopsy my idea" - Use before any market-research or build-planning task for a new venture ## How It Works ### Step 1: Kill-list check If the project contains a `REJECTION.md` (the user's personal kill-list), read it first. A NICHE match (same niche as a killed row) = verdict DEAD, cite the row, stop. A KILL-PATTERN match alone (new niche, previously-seen pattern) is a strong prior, NOT a verdict: name the matching pattern, then run the specific check for that pattern (the relevant filter or test b
- Overview
- When to Use This Skill
- How It Works
- Step 1: Kill-list check
- Step 2: The five filters
- Step 3: The free-AI test
- Step 4: Live-market verification (own eyes)
- Step 5: Verdict
- Examples
- Example 1: Idea that dies on the free-AI test
- Example 2: Proven demand that still dies
- Best Practices
- Limitations
- Security & Safety Notes
What does the idea-autopsy skill do?
Autopsy a business idea before you build it: kill-list check, five hard filters, a free-AI one-prompt test, live ad-market verification, and a verdict with a named kill-pattern.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill idea-autopsy --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, a repository with 44,414 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.