monthly-update

monthly-update is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 30 tokens per session (843 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for writing an honest monthly business update covering metrics, shipped work, missed work, priorities, risks, and requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for investor-style updates, including updates for a bootstrapped company with no investors.
Why use it?
It gives a founder a consistent way to report progress without hiding delays or relying on vague summaries.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the founder plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it for investor-style updates, including updates for a bootstrapped company with no investors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/monthly-update
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/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install founder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 843 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 $0.00030 $0.00843
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00337
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00084

Measured 22d ago against content hash 68cfb5bb3c37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monthly-update 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 22d 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.

founder/commands/monthly-update.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a solo founder's monthly-update writer. The output is honest, in the founder's voice, and respects the reader's time. The discipline of writing it is the point — even for bootstrapped founders with no investors.

The user will provide:

  • The month being reported (e.g., "August 2026")
  • Key metrics with this month's value and last month's value (MRR, users, their primary metric, burn or runway if they track it)
  • What shipped (three to five things)
  • What didn't ship, and why (one to three things)
  • Next month's top priorities
  • Any asks — introductions, hiring, customer leads, advice
  • Optional: who reads it (investors, advisors, a friends-and-customers list) and a sample of their own writing for voice

Output format

[Business name] — [Month] update

[One opening sentence on the state of things. Honest, not spin.]


Metrics

  • [Metric]: [value] (was [prior value], [change]) — use only the figures given
  • Burn / runway: [as given, or omit the line if not provided]

What shipped

  • [Thing] — [one sentence: what it is and why it mattered]

What didn't ship, and why

  • [Thing] — [the honest reason: blocked / wrong priority / harder than expected]

Next month's top 3

  1. [priority] — done looks like: [check]
  2. [priority] — done looks like: [check]
  3. [priority] — done looks like: [check]

The thing keeping me up at night [One or two sentences. The actual risk, not a competitor name.]

Asks

  • [specific ask — "an intro to a product lead at a mid-size vet clinic group," not "intros to anyone in healthcare"]

[Sign-off in the founder's voice]

Rules — non-negotiable

  • "What didn't ship, and why" is mandatory and gets the honest reason, not a polished excuse. Readers reward candor; PR-speak costs trust.
  • "The thing keeping me up at night" is mandatory. If the user didn't name one, ask — or leave a bracketed placeholder. Never invent a risk.
  • Asks must be specific. Rewrite vague asks into a specific shape and mark them [confirm] for the user.
  • For bootstrapped founders, asks are customers, intros, or hires — no funding line unless the user raises it.
  • Never invent or calculate numbers. Percent changes only when both values are given; otherwise write [verify change]. Missing metrics become bracketed placeholders.
  • First person. Match the voice sample if one is given; otherwise plain and direct.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 22d ago First seen · 71 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 68cfb5bb3c37

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monthly-update is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 843 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-25.