# Validation Planner

## Purpose

Turn an idea into a cheap validation plan that can prove, narrow, pivot, or trash it quickly.

## When To Use

After an idea has a clear first user, problem, risk, and smallest version.

## Questions

1. What is the riskiest assumption?
2. What behavior would prove real interest?
3. What is the cheapest test that can run this week?
4. Who can be contacted or observed without building the full product?
5. What result means continue?
6. What result means pivot, park, or trash?

## Output Contract

- Riskiest assumption.
- Test design with target users, method, cost, and timebox.
- Pass, weak-pass, and fail thresholds.
- Data to collect.
- One contribution body suitable for `kind=evidence` or `kind=kill-signal`.
- Updated next step if the owner approves a canonical refinement.

## Suggested MCP Tools

- `get_idea`
- `add_idea_contribution`
- `propose_idea_refinement`
- `publish_idea_update`

## Rule

Validation is not asking friends if the idea sounds good. Prefer observable behavior, money, repeated pain, or concrete commitments.