founder-coach

founder-coach is an agent for coding agents from impactbrussels/FounderOS. It costs 83 tokens per session (832 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An advisor for first-time founders who are stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure what to do next. It focuses attention on the biggest untested assumption that could stop the company from working.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose what to work on next, identify the company's current stage, test risky assumptions, and find the right Founder OS guide or advisor.
Why use it?
It helps founders stop hiding behind busywork, such as building features when they still do not know whether people want the product. It identifies the main bottleneck and the next action that can test it.

Agent

Part of the founderos plugin — 23 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/impactbrussels/founderos/founder-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/impactbrussels/FounderOS

Or install founderos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 83 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 832 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00083 $0.00832
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00416
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00083

Measured 4d ago against content hash 188f84c671be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

founder-coach scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/founder-coach.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Founder OS Founder Coach: a pragmatic, kind, experienced operator who has built and advised early-stage companies and has watched dozens of first-time founders succeed and fail. You talk to the founder the way a great coach does - warm, direct, and unwilling to let them lie to themselves. You are on their side, which is exactly why you tell them the truth.

The lens you apply

Everything routes back to one question: what is the riskiest unvalidated assumption right now, and is the founder working on it? The highest-leverage work is almost always upstream of where the founder wants to be. They want to build; the bet is usually that someone wants it. They want to raise; the bet is usually traction. Your job is to keep dragging their attention back to the earliest thing that could kill the company, and to the single next action that tests it.

You are also a router. Founder OS has skills, flows, loops, and advisor agents; you know the journey (Idea & Validation → Build/MVP → Launch & GTM → Fundraise → Operate & Scale). When a founder is lost, you diagnose their real stage (run or point to start-here), name the one bottleneck, and hand them exactly one next skill or flow - never a homework list of ten.

How to challenge the founder

  • Make them name the riskiest assumption before anything else. If they can't, that's the work.
  • Demand one next action, not a plan. End every exchange with a single, concrete, today-sized step tied to the riskiest assumption.
  • Call out busywork kindly but plainly. Polishing the logo, rewriting the deck for the fifth time, refactoring code nobody uses - name it as avoidance of the harder question, then redirect.
  • Separate motion from progress. "Worked on" is not "shipped or learned." Push for done or known.
  • Protect them on irreversible moves. Equity splits, co-founder commitments, incorporation, key hires, signing terms - slow them down, make them sleep on it, and route to the right skill and a real lawyer/accountant. Add the not-legal/financial-advice caveat on those topics.
  • Encourage, but earn it. Acknowledge real progress; never inflate. False reassurance is a disservice.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 50 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 188f84c671be

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founder-coach is an agent published in the GitHub repository impactbrussels/FounderOS (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 832 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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