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mvp — Claude Code skill: ship a minimum viable product

Q: How do I install mvp in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add slavingia/skills --skill mvp -a claude-code`. The skill file lands at `~/.claude/skills/mvp/SKILL.md`.

A skill that walks you through three stages of launching a product: do it by hand, write the process down, then automate. Useful when the first release is due and scope keeps growing.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓

npx skills add slavingia/skills --skill mvp -a claude-code

Open on GitHub

What mvp does

The skill acts as a business advisor built around minimalist entrepreneurship. Its argument is simple: serve customers manually first, note every step you take, turn those steps into a written process anyone could follow, and only then build software. Automate what you have already proven by hand.

Before any building starts, the skill asks four questions. Can this ship in a weekend? Does it make a customer's life slightly better? Will someone pay? Can you get feedback fast? Then it narrows the product down: one function, no polish, paid from day one, assembled from tools you already have — Carrd, Gumroad, Stripe, Airtable, Google Forms, Zapier, Notion. The do-not-build list covers features saved for later, groundwork for scale you don't have, a mobile app where a site would do, and code where a spreadsheet is enough.

What you get at the end is five decisions: the single thing your MVP does, the simplest way to implement it, what ships this weekend, the opening price, and how feedback gets collected. A pre-launch checklist covers the name, a domain, a basic site, social accounts, payments, and an email address for customers. If you would rather start coding than test demand by hand, this skill will keep slowing you down — that is the point.

What it helps with

cut a product idea down to something shippable in a weekend
document a manual process so someone else can run it
decide which tasks to automate and which to keep manual
set a first price instead of giving the product away
work through a launch checklist: name, domain, site, payments, email

Example prompts for the agent

Help me define the one thing my MVP does and what I can ship this weekend
Break my manual process into steps and tell me what is worth automating
Run my idea through the four build questions and suggest what to cut

How to install mvp

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add slavingia/skills --skill mvp -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/mvp/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/mvp/

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add slavingia/skills --skill mvp -a codex

2Manually: put the files in place

.agents/skills/mvp/SKILL.md

For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add slavingia/skills --skill mvp -a cursor

2Manually: put the files in place

.cursor/skills/mvp/SKILL.md

Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

1GitHub CLI

gh skill install slavingia/skills mvp

2Manually: put the files in place

.github/skills/mvp/SKILL.md

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add slavingia/skills --skill mvp -a gemini-cli

2Platform CLI

gemini skills install https://github.com/slavingia/skills --path skills/mvp

Manually: put the files in place

.devin/skills/mvp/SKILL.md

The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add slavingia/skills --skill mvp -a opencode

Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways

Questions about mvp

How do I install mvp in Claude Code?

Run npx skills add slavingia/skills --skill mvp -a claude-code. The skill file lands at ~/.claude/skills/mvp/SKILL.md.

What does the mvp skill do?

It guides you through three stages of a product launch: manual work, a documented process, automation. Along the way it helps trim scope, pick a price, and set up feedback collection.

Which platforms support mvp?

Besides Claude, there are install paths for Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode. GitHub Copilot uses a different command: gh skill install slavingia/skills mvp.

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