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Guides the founder through designing and optionally building the simplest MVP or prototype that validates their current hypotheses. Use when the founder wants to build something to test assumptions, discusses what to build next, wants to interpret results from a live MVP, or is deciding whether the current approach is still right. Also use when a founder proposes something to build — the skill will check whether the proposed form is the simplest thing that generates honest signal.

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# MVP / Prototype

Help the founder figure out the simplest thing worth building to validate their remaining assumptions — and optionally scaffold and deploy it.

The central job of this skill is to be a principled counterweight to over-engineering. Most founders want to build more than they need to test what they don't yet know. This skill reads what's been validated, identifies the riskiest untested assumptions, and argues for the form of MVP that generates honest signal with the least build effort.

Two modes:

1. **Design conversation** — structured dialogue that produces `startup/mvp-plan.md`: what to build, why this form, which hypotheses it tests, and what success looks like
2. **Scaffold and deploy** — optional Layer 2 reference that writes code to the project root and deploys using Vercel MCP, Supabase MCP, and the v0 Platform API

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## Before you start