What It Does
Before You Build packages a focused coding & development workflow for an AI agent. Pre-build product and feature risk review for founders, product managers, and AI-assisted builders. Use this skill when the user is about to build a landing page, MVP, SaaS product, internal tool, agent workflow, or major feature and needs to check demand, positioning, monetization, retention, trust, distribution, and adoption risk before implementation starts. It is best suited to users who can review the resulting actions and provide only the accounts, files, or command access needed for the task. It is not a substitute for human approval on destructive, financial, security-sensitive, or public-facing actions.
Popular Use Cases
- Review and improve a code change
- Automate a repeatable development task
- Investigate failures and prepare a fix
- Work with repositories and developer tooling
Install this Agent Skill
Claude Code
npx skills add https://github.com/wshobson/agents --skill before-you-buildCommands derived from the public GitHub SKILL.md record. Checked 2026-10-18. Review the source before running them.
Requirements
| Claude Code | Required / review |
| Codex | Required / review |
| Public SKILL.md source | Required / review |
| Review instructions and requested permissions before installation | Required / review |
| Paid service | Check source |
| Supported system | Check source |
Why It’s Popular
Before You Build is a verified Agent Skill from wshobson with a public SKILL.md, compatible with Claude Code, Codex.
