What problem does it solve? Early-stage idea backlogs fill up with concepts that were never pressure-tested, wasting time on full discovery sessions for ideas that should have been cut immediately. This Skill applies a fast five-question filter so weak ideas are killed before committing to a full grilling session. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Five-Question Filter: Asks who has the problem, how they solve it today, what metric improves, why your team is the right one, and what the smallest shippable slice is — one question at a time. - Keep or Kill Verdict: Synthesizes all five answers into a bolded verdict with a one-sentence reason, flagging vague, unmeasurable, or indefensible answers. - Guided Probing: Issues at most one follow-up probe per question when answers are weak, then captures the answer as-is for the verdict. - Use Case: You have a line in docs/ideas-backlog.md for a client-invoicing tool. Run the filter, answer the five questions, and get a keep verdict that routes you to the full grill — or a kill verdict with a sharpening criterion for revisiting later. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to validate the idea "automated invoice reminders for freelance designers" using the five-question filter.
