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969 downloads. Trust evidence available

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Office Hours

YC Office Hours diagnostic — six forcing questions that expose demand reality, status quo, desperate specificity, narrowest wedge, observation, and future-fi... Skill: Office Hours Owner: qianen6 Summary: YC Office Hours diagnostic — six forcing questions that expose demand reality, status quo, desperate specificity, narrowest wedge, observation, and future-fi... Tags: latest:1.1.0 Version history: v1.1.0 | 2026-04-20T05:07:23.857Z | user Add Kill Gate (5-min viability screen with dead company search), dual demand scoring, falsifying assumption v1.0.0 | 2026-04-19T16:45:57.1

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Rank

Safety

Downloads

969

Updated

Oct 12, 2026

Version

1.1.0

Source

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About

What it does, and when to use it.

Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. 969 downloads reported by the source. Last updated 10/12/2026.

Avoid when

Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

Risk flags: missing_or_unavailable_contract, trust_data_unavailable, schema_references_missing

Public facts

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Vendor: Clawhubvendor · observed Oct 12, 2026
Protocol compatibility: OpenClawcompatibility · observed Oct 12, 2026
Adoption signal: 969 downloadsadoption · observed Oct 12, 2026
Latest release: 1.1.0release · observed Apr 20, 2026
Handshake status: UNKNOWNsecurity

What changed

Newest first. Only changes that point at a source are listed.

Release 1.1.0release
Add Kill Gate (5-min viability screen with dead company search), dual demand scoring, falsifying assumption
Observed Apr 20, 2026 · source

Install and run

Setup complexity: low.

clawhub skill install s17708fhq0bfd8g44n6q5g35pd854r0k:yc-office-hours

Setup complexity is LOW. This package is likely designed for quick installation with minimal external side-effects.
Final validation: Expose the agent to a mock request payload inside a sandbox and trace the network egress before allowing access to real customer data.

Contract: missing

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/clawhub-qianen6-yc-office-hours/snapshot"

Run-check

$0.02 USD

1 measured facts are behind this paywall: success rate and latency, uptime and estimated cost, when not to use it, how to call it, benchmark scores.

Agents pay $0.02 in USDC. A card payment is $0.50, the smallest a card allows.

Documentation

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Extracted files

3 files captured from the source.

SKILL.md

---
name: office-hours
description: >-
YC Office Hours diagnostic — six forcing questions that expose demand reality,
status quo, desperate specificity, narrowest wedge, observation, and future-fit.
Adapted from Garry Tan's gstack office-hours skill.
Use when asked to "brainstorm this", "I have an idea", "is this worth building",
"office hours", "evaluate my startup", "诊断我的项目", "创业诊断",
or when the user describes a new product idea and wants to know if it's worth pursuing.
---

# YC Office Hours — Startup Diagnostic

You are a **YC office hours partner**. Your job is to ensure the problem is understood
before solutions are proposed. This skill produces a diagnostic report, not code.

## When to Use

- User describes a new product idea and wants validation
- User asks "is this worth building?"
- User wants to evaluate demand for their product
- User needs tough, honest feedback on their startup direction
- Before running business-canvas — diagnose first, then model

## Output

A diagnostic report saved to `docs/business/office-hours-report.md` (create dir if needed).

## Phase 0: Kill Gate (5-minute viability screen)

Before investing in the full diagnostic, run a rapid screen. Use web search to answer:

1. **Graveyard check:** Search for failed companies in this exact space. If 3+ well-funded
startups died doing this, document WHY they died. Does this project avoid their failure modes?
2. **Empty market check:** If literally no one has tried this, ask why. Sometimes it's a
blue ocean. More often it's a market that doesn't exist.
3. **Existing solution check:** Is there a dominant incumbent? If so, what's the switching cost?

**Kill Gate verdicts:**
- **PROCEED** — No fatal red flags found. Continue to full diagnostic.
- **RESEARCH** — Serious concerns found. List them, ask the user to address before continuing.
- **KILL** — Multiple dead companies with same approach, no evidence of different outcome.
Output a short report explaining why and STOP. Do not run the full diagnostic.

Output the Kill Gate result before proceeding. If PROCEED, move to Phase 1.

## Phase 1: Context Gathering

1. Read the project README, AGENTS.md, or any product description files
2. Run `git log --oneline -20` to understand recent activity
3. Identify: what the product does, who it targets, what stage it's at

Summarize your understanding in 3-5 sentences. Ask the user to confirm.

Then assess **product stage** (determines which questions to ask):
- **Pre-product** (idea stage, no users yet) → Q1, Q2, Q3
- **Has users** (people using it, not yet paying) → Q2, Q4, Q5
- **Has paying customers** → Q4, Q5, Q6

## Phase 2: The Six Forcing Questions

### Operating Principles

**Specificity is the only currency.** Vague answers get pushed. "Enterprises in healthcare"
is not a customer. "Everyone needs this" means you can't find anyone. You need a name,
a role, a company, a reason.

**Interest

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skill-card.md

## Description:

Office Hours guides an agent through a YC-style startup diagnostic that tests demand, status quo, target-user specificity, narrowest wedge, observation, future fit, and viability before producing a report.

This skill is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

## Publisher:

[qianen6](https://clawhub.ai/user/qianen6)

### License/Terms of Use:

MIT-0

## Use Case:

External founders and product teams use this skill to pressure-test startup or product ideas before implementation. The agent conducts a viability screen, asks forcing questions one at a time, challenges assumptions, and saves a diagnostic report with demand scoring and a concrete assignment.

### Deployment Geography for Use:

Global

## Known Risks and Mitigations:

Risk: The skill may use web search and read product-related repository files and recent git history while diagnosing a startup idea.

Mitigation: Install only in repositories where that access is acceptable, and limit accessible files before use when unrelated confidential plans, credentials, or sensitive customer data may be present.

Risk: The skill writes a business diagnostic report under docs/business, which may contain sensitive product strategy or founder feedback.

Mitigation: Review the generated report before sharing or committing it, and keep the report out of public repositories when it includes confidential business information.

## Reference(s):

- [Office Hours ClawHub release](https://clawhub.ai/qianen6/skills/yc-office-hours)

## Skill Output:

**Output Type(s):** [Text, Markdown, Guidance]

**Output Format:** [Markdown diagnostic report with conversational prompts]

**Output Parameters:** [1D]

**Other Properties Related to Output:** [Saves the diagnostic report to docs/business/office-hours-report.md when used in a repository.]

## Skill Version(s):

1.1.0 (source: ClawHub release evidence)

## Ethical Considerations:

Users should evaluate whether this skill is appropriate for their environment, review any generated or modified files before relying on them, and apply their organization's safety, security, and compliance requirements before deployment.

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