idea-validation-agent

name

idea-validation-agent

description

Validate article links, social posts, or Obsidian ideas as side-project or content-product opportunities. Use when the user asks Codex to read an article/link, match it against the Obsidian knowledge base or ideas tracker, search X/Twitter, Xiaohongshu, Reddit, V2EX, GitHub, Exa, or other external sources for examples and risks, and produce a practical MVP, monetization, or feasibility plan. Also use for daily/weekly automation that reads ideas and designs evidence-backed implementation plans.

Idea Validation Agent

Turn an article, post, or ideas/ entry into an evidence-backed project plan.

Core Rule

Do not treat social heat as proof. Assign each source a role:

• Input article/post: extract the claim, audience, pain, solution, and commercialization angle.
• Obsidian: check fit with the user's existing knowledge, ideas, methods, practices, and questions.
• X / Twitter: find frontier examples, builders, tools, pricing, and overseas implementation patterns.
• Xiaohongshu: validate Chinese demand, content formats, comments, service intent, and monetization clues.
• Reddit / technical communities: inspect implementation risks, user complaints, failure modes, alternatives, and hidden costs.
• Other sources: use Exa, GitHub, official docs, V2EX, Stack Overflow, product forums, Hacker News, YouTube/Bilibili, or RSS when they fit the question better.

Workflow

1. Parse the User Input

Identify the task type:

• Article/link validation
• Existing ideas/tracker item validation
• Batch daily/weekly idea review
• Follow-up on a previous validation report

Extract or ask only if necessary:

• Link or idea ID
• Target user group
• Desired market: Chinese, global, or both
• Expected deliverable: service, template, tool, course, content account, community, consulting, or unclear

2. Read the Source

Pick the reading route:

• X / Twitter post: use twitter tweet URL_OR_ID.
• X Article: use twitter article URL_OR_ID.
• Generic webpage: use Jina Reader or web-reader.
• WeChat article: prefer Exa crawling/search.
• GitHub or docs: use GitHub, Exa, or official docs.

Extract:

• Claim
• Target user
• Pain point
• Proposed solution
• Commercialization angle
• Assumptions that require evidence
• Search keywords in Chinese and English

3. Match Obsidian

Use Obsidian MCP when available. Read, in this order:

1. wiki/index.md
2. wiki/overview.md
3. schema/idea-tracking.md if writing or reading ideas/
4. ideas/tracker.md and current weekly review when the user wants idea continuity
5. Directly relevant methods/, practice/, questions/, concepts/, or entities/

Check:

• Existing related ideas
• Reusable methods or practices
• Known risks or decision questions
• Whether this belongs in ideas/, practice/, methods/, or only the conversation

Respect write boundaries:

• Do not write Obsidian unless the user asks.
• For idea automation, default writes only to ideas/, following schema/idea-tracking.md.
• Do not write secrets, cookies, tokens, or account identifiers beyond high-level status.

4. Search External Evidence

Use Agent-Reach routes where installed. Prefer structured output such as --yaml or --json.

X / Twitter:

twitter search "query" -n 10 --yaml
twitter user-posts username -n 20 --yaml
twitter tweet URL_OR_ID --yaml
twitter article URL_OR_ID --yaml

If your Agent-Reach install exposes Windows wrapper scripts instead of PATH commands, replace twitter with the full wrapper path, for example:

& "$env:USERPROFILE\.agent-reach\bin\twitter.cmd" search "query" -n 10 --yaml

If X search fails because upstream GraphQL changed, use feed/user-posts, web search, or Exa.

Xiaohongshu:

xhs search "query" --page 1 --yaml
xhs read NOTE_ID_OR_URL --yaml
xhs comments NOTE_ID_OR_URL --yaml

Use search results or full note URLs for reads; do not invent bare note IDs. If the command needs to write search_sessions.json, run it in an environment where the agent has permission to write its local cache.

Reddit:

rdt search "query" --limit 10 --yaml
rdt read POST_ID --yaml
rdt sub subreddit --limit 20 --yaml

Reddit does not need login for basic search/read. Use it when the idea has technical, platform, workflow, or user-complaint risk.

Other sources:

• Use Exa for English/technical web and code evidence.
• Use GitHub search/issues for implementation friction.
• Use V2EX for Chinese technical user sentiment.
• Use official docs for API, policy, pricing, and platform rules.

5. Synthesize the Plan

Produce a decision, not a pile of links. Use references/report-template.md for the report structure.

Decision labels:

• Continue: enough demand and feasible MVP path.
• Observe: promising but key evidence missing.
• Pause: weak demand, unclear buyer, or high execution risk.

Always include:

• Evidence table by platform/source
• Pain point synthesis
• MVP recommendation
• 3-day action plan
• Risk and mitigation
• Obsidian update recommendation

Automation Mode

For daily/weekly automation:

1. Read schema/idea-tracking.md.
2. Read ideas/tracker.md and the relevant weekly review.
3. Select only 待验证 or 可行动 ideas.
4. Run a shallow evidence pass for each idea, or a deep pass for the top 1-3 ideas.
5. Write only to ideas/ if the user or automation explicitly allows writes.
6. Suggest, but do not automatically create, wiki/practice, wiki/methods, or wiki/questions pages.

Quality Bar

• Cite source URLs or local note paths in the answer.
• Distinguish source evidence from inference.
• Prefer recent, primary, or platform-native evidence.
• Do not over-index on X excitement or Xiaohongshu vanity metrics.
• Identify the buyer, not only the user.
• Avoid recommending a build before the first acquisition path is clear.
• If evidence is weak, say so and specify the next search that would reduce uncertainty.

Report Template

Read references/report-template.md when producing the final validation report.