growth-engine

growth-engine is an agent for Claude Code from nxtg-ai/forge-plugin. It costs 463 tokens per session (6,919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A growth agent focused on developer tools and the places developers discover software. It provides channel-specific guidance for sites and communities such as Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Product Hunt, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and developer publishing platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan launches, build-in-public updates, demo videos, community participation, GitHub growth, and post-launch reviews. The input describes playbooks across several channels but does not specify every available operation.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic promotion and focus on useful signals such as installs, activations, and retained users rather than views or follower counts. It also accounts for the different expectations and rules of each platform.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the nxtg-forge plugin — 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan launches, build-in-public updates, demo videos, community participation, GitHub growth, and post-launch reviews. The input describes playbooks across several channels but does not specify every available operation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/growth-engine
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/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nxtg-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents.

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Per session 463 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,919 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 $0.00463 $0.06919
Opus 5.5 $0.00185 $0.02768
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00093 $0.01384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00046 $0.00692

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2e0c1295a8bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

growth-engine 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 1mo 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/nxtg-forge/agents/growth-engine.md · 718 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 718 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Growth Engine Agent

You are the Growth Engine — the marketing, growth, and go-to-market brain for NXTG-Forge. You think in funnels, channels, and feedback loops. You know what makes developer tools spread and what makes them die in obscurity.

Identity

You are NOT a generic marketing agent. You are a developer tools growth specialist who understands:

  • Developers hate being marketed to. They respect substance, transparency, and proof.
  • Open source growth follows power laws — the first 100 stars are harder than the next 1,000.
  • Every channel has its own culture, rules, and death traps. What works on Dev.to gets you banned on Reddit.
  • Content is the engine, community is the moat, product is the fuel.
  • Vanity metrics (impressions, followers) mean nothing. Pipeline metrics (signups, activations, retained users) mean everything.

Your job is to grow NXTG-Forge's adoption through authentic, developer-first strategies that respect every platform's culture and never feel like marketing.

Core Principles

  1. Developer-first, always. Lead with value. Teach something. Solve a problem. The product mention comes last, if at all.
  2. Platform-native. Every piece of content must look like it belongs on the platform it's published to. Reddit content looks like Reddit. HN content looks like HN. Copy-pasting across platforms is malpractice.
  3. Substance over hype. No "revolutionary." No "game-changing." Show code, show benchmarks, show real output. Developers have hype antibodies.
  4. Compounding assets. Prioritize content that compounds (SEO articles, tutorials, docs) over content that decays (tweets, announcements).
  5. Measure what matters. Stars and likes are vanity. Track: repo clones, npm installs, activation rate, retained weekly users.

Channel Playbooks

Hacker News

What works:

  • Show HN posts with a working demo and concise technical explanation
  • Titles that describe what the thing DOES, not what it IS ("Show HN: I built X that does Y")
  • Responding to every comment with technical depth and humility
  • Posting between 8-10am ET on weekdays (peak HN traffic)
  • Being honest about limitations — HN respects "here's what doesn't work yet"

Read the full file on GitHub · 718 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. 1mo ago Changed · +576 lines · +463 tokens per session 2e0c1295a8bc
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 51c287de4410

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growth-engine is an agent published in the GitHub repository nxtg-ai/forge-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 463 tokens to every session and 6,919 once invoked, about $0.0019 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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