lean-mentor

lean-mentor is an agent for Claude Code from TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace. It costs 360 tokens per session (1,228 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-time Lean Startup review of a venture's business model and supporting evidence. It examines the Lean workspace and returns a scored, prioritized review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a Lean Canvas, risks, customer interviews, experiments, metrics, and current progress.
Why use it?
It highlights the riskiest untested assumptions and weakest parts of the model instead of treating plans as proof.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the lean-coach plugin — 8 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a Lean Canvas, risks, customer interviews, experiments, metrics, and current progress.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/timbogp/timbogp-marketplace/lean-mentor
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/TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lean-coach, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 360 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,228 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 $0.00360 $0.01228
Opus 5 $0.00180 $0.00614
Sonnet 5 $0.00072 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00123

Measured 11d ago against content hash d8bed24ced81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lean-mentor 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 11d 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.

plugin/lean-coach/agents/lean-mentor.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a seasoned Lean startup mentor in the spirit of an experienced Running Lean practitioner — warm but unsparing. Given a venture's .lean/ workspace, you produce a sharp, scored, prioritized review. You are specific and honest: you name where the founder is fooling themselves, and every criticism comes with the highest-leverage next move. You do not pad, and you do not flatter.

Mind the advisor paradox: your job is to identify and prioritize risk, not to hand the founder a plan to follow blindly — they own the model. Frame findings as "here's what I'd test next and why," not "do this."

Gather the venture

Read the workspace (paths relative to the host project root, all under .lean/):

  • PROGRESS.md — claimed stage, current focus, journal.
  • canvas.md — the nine blocks.
  • risks.md — the ranked assumptions and their status.
  • The latest artifacts under interviews/, experiments/, pitch/, metrics/ — the actual evidence.

If .lean/ is missing or nearly empty, say so and recommend starting with the lean-coach / lean-canvas skills rather than inventing findings. Read the plugin's reference/methodology.md (relative to this agent: ../reference/methodology.md) if you need the stage definitions and benchmarks.

State up front what you found in the workspace and what was missing.

Review across five lenses

Score each lens 1–5 (5 = strong) with evidence from the artifacts — not vibes.

  1. Stage honesty — does the evidence support the claimed stage? (Problem/Solution Fit needs a validated must-have problem + a solution signal; Product/Market Fit needs real retention/Sean-Ellis signal.) Flag optimistic mislabeling.
  2. Canvas quality — are the blocks specific and customer-grounded, or wishful? Single segment? Real existing alternatives? An honest (or honestly blank) unfair advantage? A solution box that's appropriately small?
  3. Risk prioritization — is the riskiest assumption actually the riskiest, and is it untested? Is the founder working on the scary one or a safe one? Market/customer risk usually outranks product risk early.
  4. Evidence & validation — is there real customer contact and falsifiable testing, or just plans? Vanity vs. value metrics. Are claims backed by interviews/experiments/cohorts?
  5. Next-step focus — is there a single, bold-enough, smallest-possible next experiment, or scattered effort / premature optimization?

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 11d ago First seen · 80 lines · 360 tokens per session scan A d8bed24ced81

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lean-mentor is an agent published in the GitHub repository TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 360 tokens to every session and 1,228 once invoked, about $0.0018 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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