Is the Idea2MVP skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from MorvanZhou/idea2mvp. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Idea2MVP SkillProof Score?

8.4/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 4/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 4/5.

How do I install Idea2MVP?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Idea2MVP with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Idea2MVP

Live GitHub, Indie Hackers and CN-community scripts for product idea discovery

by MorvanZhou · MorvanZhou/idea2mvp

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 8.4/10
Tested: Aug 5, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)

⚠ This skill is no longer available upstream. Our re-check on Aug 10, 2026 couldn't find it any more (repo unreachable/deleted). The test below is what we measured on Aug 5, 2026 and we're leaving it up as a record — but there is nothing left to install, so we've removed the command.

Ran six of the ten bundled scripts live against the real APIs: GitHub Search returned repos created inside the requested 14-day window with exact star counts, Indie Hackers returned 190 to 1818 matching products carrying monthly-revenue figures, and V2EX, SSPai and the Sogou-WeChat scraper each pulled fresh Chinese-community posts. The no-skill baseline for the same request — a plain web search for trending indie tools from the last two weeks — came back with SEO listicles and an admission that it had no last-two-weeks data, so the gap here is real and not stylistic. Three scripts are unmeasured rather than broken: Product Hunt needs a developer token, Xiaohongshu needs Playwright plus a QR login, and the mailer needs your own SMTP credentials. Two things to know before installing: every response is written in Chinese regardless of how you ask, and the skill lists a bare 'send email' as a trigger phrase, which will pull it into unrelated email requests.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 4/5
Output vs. baseline 8/10
Docs & honesty 4/5

What Idea2MVP does

A three-stage product workflow — discover ideas, validate them, then build the MVP — backed by ten Python scripts that pull live data from GitHub Search, V2EX, SSPai, Indie Hackers, WeChat via Sogou, Product Hunt's API and Xiaohongshu via Playwright. Triggers on requests to find product ideas, check trending tools, validate an idea, run market or competitive research, or build an MVP, in English or Chinese. It keeps a cross-session dedup ledger so repeat searches stop resurfacing the same tools, and all output is written in Chinese.

How to install Idea2MVP

Nothing to install: the source repository no longer has this skill. If the author brings it back, our daily re-check will pick it up and the command will reappear here.

Commands — how to trigger Idea2MVP

/idea2mvp Live GitHub, Indie Hackers and CN-community scripts for product idea discovery

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

帮我找找最近这两周在 GitHub 和 Indie Hackers 上有哪些值得关注的独立开发者新产品
我有一个用手机自动扫描收据并自动记账的产品想法，麻烦帮我认真仔细地做一次市场验证分析
查一下最近这段时间在 V2EX 和小红书上大家都在讨论哪些新出现的效率工具和产品

Frequently asked questions

Is the Idea2MVP skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from MorvanZhou/idea2mvp. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Idea2MVP work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Aug 5, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Ran six of the ten bundled scripts live against the real APIs: GitHub Search returned repos created inside the requested 14-day window with exact star counts, Indie Hackers returned 190 to 1818 matching products carrying monthly-revenue figures, and V2EX, SSPai and the Sogou-WeChat scraper each pulled fresh Chinese-community posts. The no-skill baseline for the same request — a plain web search for trending indie tools from the last two weeks — came back with SEO listicles and an admission that it had no last-two-weeks data, so the gap here is real and not stylistic. Three scripts are unmeasured rather than broken: Product Hunt needs a developer token, Xiaohongshu needs Playwright plus a QR login, and the mailer needs your own SMTP credentials. Two things to know before installing: every response is written in Chinese regardless of how you ask, and the skill lists a bare 'send email' as a trigger phrase, which will pull it into unrelated email requests.
What is the Idea2MVP SkillProof Score?: 8.4/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 4/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 4/5.
How do I install Idea2MVP?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Idea2MVP with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.