Food Chain

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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.

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

Three outcomes, not one

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

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]

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.

Five skills, one install

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

Why this is different

Standard adversarial critique gives you four attacks and a summary. You read them, nod, and build the same thing you were going to build.

Food Chain gives you four attacks where the weakest dies, its insight transfers to the winner, the idea patches itself, and the next round's agents attack the patched version. The attacks compound. The idea evolves. The final surviving argument has been pressure-tested by everything the ecosystem could generate.

Subagent mode — In Claude Code, each animal is a separate agent with zero shared context. Role-lock is architectural, not instructional. A Crow literally cannot see what the Tapeworm said.

Blind scoring — Attacks scored by an independent agent that receives them anonymized as "Attacker A", "Attacker B". No animal names. No God Agent self-assessment bias.

Pivot engine — When an idea is killed, three pivots auto-generate from the wreckage, each mini-battled and ranked. You don't leave with "don't build this." You leave with "build this instead."

Audience agent — After the battle, a simulation of your actual ICP reacts to the evolved idea. "Would you pay for this?"

Usage

food chain my idea: [your idea]

what kills this: [your product]

food chain code: [your architecture decision]

food chain pitch: [your pitch or deck summary]

apex to action: [paste your battle log]

food chain monitor: [paste battle log + what changed]

Install

Via Claude Code plugin system (recommended):

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

Manual install:

git clone https://github.com/CodedRichy/food-chain-ideation.git
# Project-level (this project only):
cp -r food-chain-ideation/skills .claude/skills
# Or global (all projects):
cp -r food-chain-ideation/skills ~/.claude/skills

On Windows, ~/.claude/ is C:\Users\<you>\.claude\.

Self-contained markdown — no build step, no config, no dependencies.

Works in Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot.

<details> <summary>Repo structure</summary>

skills/
├── food-chain-ideation/
│   ├── SKILL.md                    ← product idea battles
│   └── references/
│       └── animal-library.md       ← 32 animals, behavioral DNA
├── food-chain-code/
│   ├── SKILL.md                    ← architecture decision battles
│   └── references/
│       └── code-animal-library.md  ← 20 code-specific animals
├── food-chain-pitch/
│   ├── SKILL.md                    ← investor pitch battles
│   └── references/
│       └── pitch-animal-library.md ← 12 pitch-specific animals
├── apex-to-action/
│   └── SKILL.md                    ← battle output → 90-day plan
└── food-chain-monitor/
    └── SKILL.md                    ← re-test after changes

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Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Every new animal added by the community makes every existing installation better retroactively.

<details> <summary>Changelog</summary>

v2.1.0

• food-chain-pitch — investor pitch stress-tester with 12 pitch-specific animals
• Real-time data mode — agents search for current market data when web tools available
• Kill shot confidence tags — CONFIRMED / PROBABLE / SPECULATIVE on every attack
• Scoring reasoning — 1-line justification per scoring dimension
• Audience panel — 3 ICP simulations replace single audience agent
• Founder defense agent — active defense between attacks and scoring
• Animal selection reasoning — transparent selection logic in ecosystem design
• Battle gallery on website — 4 real battle transcripts browseable
• Spec alignment — all skills use when_to_use + argument-hint frontmatter

v2.0.0

• Subagent mode — architecturally enforced role-lock via independent agents
• Blind scoring agent — anonymous attack evaluation removes self-assessment bias
• Subagent evolution — one-line patch context enables angle evolution without breaking isolation
• Audience agent — ICP simulation reacts to evolved idea after battle
• Pivot engine — auto-generates and mini-battles 3 pivots when idea is killed
• food-chain-code — architecture decision stress-tester with 20 code-specific animals
• apex-to-action — battle output → 90-day execution plan with validation gates
• food-chain-monitor — delta re-testing after changes with 3 animals, 2 rounds max
• Restructured as multi-skill suite — one install, four skills

v1.3.0

• Input sharpening — mandatory ICP/geography/problem check before ecosystem design
• Battle quality score — role-lock integrity, animal specificity, kill shot lethality
• Next-move block — validate, build first, never build
• Battle log — compressed session memory for cross-session continuity

v1.2.0

• Pre-flight checks — ecosystem validated before battle starts
• God Agent hypothesis — kill prediction stated before round 1
• Early termination rule — strong ideas declared early

v1.1.0

• Anti-pattern combinations added to animal library

v1.0.0

• Initial release — 16 animals, elimination and absorption loop

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