Prospect

Install in one command

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/prospect && curl -fsSL https://eliteaiadvantage.com/skills/prospect/SKILL.md -o ~/.claude/skills/prospect/SKILL.md

Prospect is the upstream cousin of Forge. Five scouts hunt for tool ideas across distinct signal sources: search demand (Query Hunter), recurring prospect pain (Pain Listener), beatable competitor tools (Competitor Eye), un-productized internal IP (Asset Miner), and funnel gaps (Funnel Engineer). Each pitches specific named tools, not themes, not 'you could explore', with a one-line description, the signal source they came from, and the distinguishing element that makes it not a clone.

The synthesis ranks the candidates, names the single best one to take to /forge first, and kills the duplicates. Run prospect when you don't have a specific idea yet but want the team to surface 3-5 worth weighing. Run forge on the winners. The two skills are calibrated to hand off cleanly: prospect generates, forge pressure-tests.

• →Generates 3-5 specific named tool candidates, not vague themes or 'directions to explore.'
• →Each pitch comes with a signal source, a search query, a prospect quote, a competitor URL, an internal asset, a funnel gap.
• →Synthesis ranks candidates and names the single forge-first pick, no consensus mush.
• →Kills duplicates against existing assets so the shortlist adds rather than overlaps.
• →Five scouts hit different signal sources so the output isn't five flavors of the same brain.
• →Hands off cleanly to /forge for the next pressure-test pass.

• •Wanting tool ideas but not having a specific candidate yet.
• •Filling a known funnel gap (TOFU traffic, MOFU intent capture, BOFU sales enablement).
• •Productizing internal IP, newsletters, blog posts, audit insights, into interactive surfaces.
• •Hunting for tools to slot beside an existing lead-magnet stack without duplicating it.
• •Looking for a competitor-beatable tool where the moat is your scar tissue.
• •Widening the funnel of ideas before narrowing with /forge.

Without this skill, Claude tends to brainstorm tool ideas as a flat list of vague themes. Prospect reshapes the response into five committed scouts hunting different signal sources, with named pitches that have receipts (a query, a quote, a URL, an asset). You stop getting 'you could build a chatbot' and start getting 'AI Vendor Quote Decoder, paste a vendor proposal, get a red-flag scorecard, behind the search for AI consulting cost rising 30% YoY.'