mom-test — Skills — getagentictools

Q: What does the mom-test skill do?

Talk to customers without leading them using Mom Test rules: discuss their life not your idea, ask about specifics in the past, and talk less. Use when the user mentions "customer interviews", "validate my idea", "users say they want it but dont buy", "leading questions", "The Mom Test", "customer feedback bias", or "interview script". Also trigger when preparing user-research questions, interpreting ambiguous feedback, or designing customer-discovery that avoids false positives. Covers commitment and advancement, avoiding compliments, and extracting signal from noise. For product-market fit, see jobs-to-be-done. For rapid prototype testing, see design-sprint. 4-5 = some past-behavior facts but leaking into hypotheticals, compliments accepted as signal, or ending without an ask. <=3 = a pitch in disguise: leading questions, opinions and fluff, a polite zombie lead, no learning.

Q: How do I install mom-test?

Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/wondelai/skills --skill mom-test --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/wondelai/skills.

What it does

4-5 = some past-behavior facts but leaking into hypotheticals, compliments accepted as signal, or ending without an ask.

<=3 = a pitch in disguise: leading questions, opinions and fluff, a polite zombie lead, no learning.

Rule 1: Talk about their life, not your idea -- never mention your solution until the end, if at all

Rule 2: Ask about specifics in the past, not generics or hypotheticals about the future

Rule 3: Talk less, listen more -- aim for them to speak 80% of the time

A question fails the Mom Test if the answer is always "yes" regardless of whether the business will succeed

Good questions could potentially destroy your currently imagined business

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Source

Repository: https://github.com/wondelai/skills

mom-test FAQ

What does the mom-test skill do?

Talk to customers without leading them using Mom Test rules: discuss their life not your idea, ask about specifics in the past, and talk less. Use when the user mentions "customer interviews", "validate my idea", "users say they want it but dont buy", "leading questions", "The Mom Test", "customer feedback bias", or "interview script". Also trigger when preparing user-research questions, interpreting ambiguous feedback, or designing customer-discovery that avoids false positives. Covers commitment and advancement, avoiding compliments, and extracting signal from noise. For product-market fit, see jobs-to-be-done. For rapid prototype testing, see design-sprint. 4-5 = some past-behavior facts but leaking into hypotheticals, compliments accepted as signal, or ending without an ask. <=3 = a pitch in disguise: leading questions, opinions and fluff, a polite zombie lead, no learning.

How do I install mom-test?

Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/wondelai/skills --skill mom-test --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/wondelai/skills.

Maintain mom-test?

Let people know it's listed here — add the badge (live metrics, light/dark aware) or a plain link to your README or docs.

[mom-test on getagentictools](https://getagentictools.com/skills/wondelai-skills-mom-test?ref=badge)

npx agentictools info skills/wondelai-skills-mom-test

The second line is the CLI lookup for this page — handy in READMEs and docs.