ce-market-scanlisted

# Market Scan **Invocation input:** Raw idea / product concept: $ARGUMENTS Produce a dated, evidence-bound **market context** document for a raw idea, so a human can judge whether the idea is worth pursuing **before** `/ce-brief` shapes it into planning input. The skill both **surfaces findings** *and* (Stage 3.5) **assembles them into the decision space the reader faces** — Strategic Tensions, Positioning Options, and Load-Bearing Unknowns — then (Stage 5) **closes the loop**: it surfaces that space back to the human and **routes the idea's disposition** (*Drop · Adopt · Adopt with changes · Reframe · Re-scan a gap*) without picking one. So the report **guides without deciding**. It **renders no verdict**: it never decides whether to build, never ranks or recommends a positioning, and its output is decision *support*, not market truth. This skill is a **thin orchestrator**: it SELECTs and lightly tailors questions from the fixed Question Bank below (extensible — this is a STUB), rather than free-generating a research plan. > **Where it sits.** This is a **separate, optional, upstream** skill. It runs > **before** `/ce-brief` and is **not** part of it. Its output is consumed downstream > only as a **labeled Reference Document**; its claims never enter a brief's Project > Description directly, and `/ce-brief` never performs or fabricates market research. ## Expanded Authority Surface Unlike the elicitation skills, this skill **reads the open web** (WebSearch / WebFetch)