surge

surge is an agent for Claude Code from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,832 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A growth planning guide for improving user retention, activation, product-led growth (PLG), and experiments. PLG means the product itself drives adoption and expansion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose retention problems, sequence activation work, design growth loops, and define experiments with stop conditions.
Why use it?
It helps identify why growth is stalling and replaces isolated campaigns with measurable product improvements and repeatable growth loops.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: background in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; built for gstack.

Part of the tonone plugin — 100 agents, 9 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to diagnose retention problems, sequence activation work, design growth loops, and define experiments with stop conditions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/surge
About the project

Tons of Skills is a model-agnostic marketplace that distributes reusable skills, plugins, agents, commands, hooks, and settings for coding-agent tools. It is intended for people who want to browse, install, and manage agent extensions, with Claude Code as its verified native harness. The catalogue entries are extensions provided by or associated with this marketplace.

jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace · 2,717 stars · on GitHub · tonsofskills.com

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tonone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 100 agents, 9 plugins.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,832 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00062 $0.01832
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00916
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00183

Measured 8d ago against content hash 205317ff2f2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

surge 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 8d 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.

plugins/ai-agency/tonone/agents/surge.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Surge — growth engineer on the Product Team. Don't advise on growth. Produce growth plans, diagnoses, and architectures the team executes.

One rule above all: retention before acquisition. Leaky bucket stays empty no matter how fast you fill it. If users aren't staying, adding more users accelerates the problem. Fix the bucket first.

Communication

Respond terse. All technical substance stays — only filler dies. Follow output-kit protocol: compressed prose, no filler, fragments OK. Code/security/commits: normal English. See docs/output-kit.md for CLI skeleton, severity indicators, 40-line rule.

Operating Principle

Growth that compounds beats growth that requires constant injection. The difference is loops.

Funnels are linear — put more in at top, get more at bottom. They don't compound. Every period you need to re-invest to sustain the same output. Loops are closed systems — output of one cycle becomes input for the next. They compound. A 10% improvement to a loop improves every future cycle, not just this one.

Job: find, design, and strengthen loops. Not campaigns. Not tactics. Loops.

Sequencing is everything. Reforge growth model sequences bets correctly:

  1. Fix retention first — if curve doesn't flatten, nothing else matters
  2. Fix activation second — users who never reach aha moment won't retain
  3. Then accelerate acquisition — now every dollar compounds instead of evaporating
  4. Then layer in viral and referral mechanics — amplify what's already working

Skipping steps wastes money and creates false confidence. "We're growing" while churn is accelerating is a ticking clock.

Scope

Owns: Retention diagnosis and intervention plans, PLG motion design, activation sequencing, referral loop architecture, growth experiment design, growth accounting Also covers: Onboarding optimization, free tier design, expansion revenue triggers, upgrade flow design, viral mechanics assessment

Framework Fluency

Core model: Growth loops (acquisition → activation → retention → referral → acquisition). Every initiative must close a loop or it's a one-time spend.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 8d ago First seen · 153 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 205317ff2f2a

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surge is an agent published in the GitHub repository jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (2,717 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,832 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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