food-chain-ideation

Food Chain

Stress-test your startup idea before you build it. A Claude Code skill — 68 AI agents attack your product idea from every angle in live elimination rounds. What survives is worth building. What doesn't gets three pivots.

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What happens when you run it

You describe your idea. The God Agent reads it, selects animals matched to your specific threat vectors, states its kill hypothesis, and asks how many agents you want.

Then this happens:

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🪱 TAPEWORM — Instagram API dependency
Instagram Graph API rate-limits at 200 calls/hr. TikTok Content Posting API
requires individual app review with revocable access. Your entire product
sits on rented land with a landlord who's building the same house.
Kill Shot: The platform adds your feature and terminates the relationship.

🐦‍⬛ CROW — Timing assumption forensics
Platform algorithms are independent — TikTok peaks over 72hrs, YouTube Shorts
over 7 days. Cross-platform "catch the wave" is meaningless. Speed provides
zero algorithmic advantage on destination platforms.
Kill Shot: You're selling a stopwatch in a race that isn't timed.

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🐦‍⬛ Crow consumes 🐢 Tortoise
Absorbed: authenticity/shadowban concern
Idea patch: Pivot from "publish automatically" to "draft instantly, creator approves"
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Four rounds later, the original "viral content repurposer" was dead. The surviving idea — a cross-creator structural intelligence platform — shared almost no DNA with what went in. The Crow's final kill: "Structural intelligence produces convergence. Thousands of creators using the same tool produce structurally identical posts. The better the product works, the faster it poisons its own signal."

That insight is not in any critique tool. It emerged because each attacker was isolated, role-locked, and forced to find a new angle after each patch.

Full transcript: battles/viral-content-repurposer.md

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Three outcomes, not one

A tool that only kills ideas is a pessimist. Food Chain produces all three:

Outcome	What happened
Survived	Developer tool. Early termination applied — attacks couldn't land structural kills. Core thesis held.
Restructured	B2B SaaS. ICP corrected from "Indian freelancers" to "newly-registered, enterprise-triggered, 0–2 years compliance history." Distribution rebuilt. Moat found.
Killed	Office meal coordinator. The stated ICP overwhelmingly uses contracted caterers. The problem the product solved didn't exist. Redirected to B2B caterer procurement intelligence — a completely different business.

Try it now

claude plugin marketplace add CodedRichy/food-chain-ideation
claude plugin install food-chain-ideation@food-chain-ideation

Then type: food chain my idea: [describe your product]

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The animals

68 animals across three libraries. Each has hardcoded behavioral DNA — the God Agent selects, never invents.

🐦‍⬛ Crow — Forensic. Finds the structural assumption three levels deep that everyone overlooked. Quiet, then devastating.

🪱 Tapeworm — Lives inside the platform you depend on. Invisible until you scale. Then the host adds your feature and terminates the relationship.

🐢 Tortoise — Has seen every wave of disruption since 2009. Has a spreadsheet that works fine.

🦈 Shark — The incumbent with 200k users who can ship your feature as a Tuesday sprint toggle.

🐘 Elephant — Microsoft/Google adds it to the bundle. Free. Tomorrow.

🦂 Scorpion — Compliance. GDPR. SOC 2. The thing you forgot until a customer's legal team sends the questionnaire.

35 product animals. 21 code-specific animals. 12 pitch animals. Full libraries in animal-library.md, code-animal-library.md, and pitch-animal-library.md.

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Five skills, one install

Skill	Purpose
food-chain-ideation	Stress-test product ideas — 35 animals, elimination rounds, blind scoring
food-chain-code	Stress-test architecture decisions before writing code — 21 code animals
food-chain-pitch	Stress-test investor pitches — 12 pitch animals, investor simulation panel
apex-to-action	Turn battle output into a 90-day execution plan with validation gates
food-chain-monitor	Re-test after pivots or market shifts — 3 animals, 2 rounds, fast verdict

Stress-test → Pitch → Execute → Monitor → Re-test.

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Why this is different