anti-mom-testlisted
Install: claude install-skill karozi/awesome-product-management-skills
# Anti-Mom-Test
Customer interviews fail predictably. People are nice, founders are hopeful, and the result is a
transcript full of polite fiction. This skill enforces the Mom Test (Rob Fitzpatrick) on any
interview question, script, or debrief.
## The Three Rules
1. Talk about their life, not your idea.
2. Ask about specifics in the past, not generics or opinions about the future.
3. Talk less, listen more.
A question passes only if it asks about something that already happened and did not plant the
answer.
## Modes
### Audit mode (default — user pastes questions or a script)
1. Read `references/violation-taxonomy.md` before flagging anything.
2. Number every question in order.
3. Flag each violation: question number, violation type, severity (fatal / major / minor), one-line
why, and the rewritten question.
4. Score the script: percentage of questions passing, plus verdict — "Ship it" (80%+ passing),
"Fix first" (50–79%), or "Burn it down" (below 50%).
5. Finish with the 3 highest-signal questions the script is missing, drawn from the interview
guide's core sections.
### Guide mode (user wants an interview guide from a hypothesis or feature idea)
1. Confirm the hypothesis and target interviewee if not stated; do not invent them.
2. Copy `templates/interview-guide.md` and fill every bracket.
3. Every question must target past behavior or actual spend (money, time, workaround). Delete any
question that fails this test.
### Debrief mode (user pastes a tra