ai-dev-operating-system: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/grow-sustainably.md

grow-sustainably is a command for Claude Code from lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system. It costs 57 tokens per session (557 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A growth-planning command helps a product move from 100 to 1,000 users while considering customer retention, acquisition, spending, and the founder's available time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when there are at least 100 active users to review retention, repeat what worked, test one new acquisition channel, and plan the founder's workload.
Why use it?
It addresses the point where one-to-one outreach no longer scales and growth could exhaust the founder, budget, or user base.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai-dev-operating-system itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ai-dev-operating-system configures →

Part of the ai-dev-operating-system plugin — 28 skills, 11 commands, 12 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system/main/.claude/commands/grow-sustainably.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-dev-operating-system, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 11 commands, 12 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 557 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 $0.00057 $0.00557
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00279
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00056

Measured 10d ago against content hash 609d40241e59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grow-sustainably 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 10d 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.

.claude/commands/grow-sustainably.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

/grow-sustainably

Plan post-first-100-users growth without burning out the founder, the budget, or the user base.

Expected input

/grow-sustainably

Optional arguments:

/grow-sustainably active_users="<n>" w4_retention="<%>" top_source="<source>"

If arguments are omitted, the skill reads docs/business/BUSINESS-PLAN.md, the most recent growth-plan-*.md (if any), and asks for the missing pre-conditions.

Actions

  1. Invoke the grow-sustainably skill (.claude/skills/grow-sustainably/SKILL.md).
  2. Verify the four pre-conditions (100+ active users, retention data, one acquisition pattern that worked, usage-monitor running).
  3. Run the four pillars in order: Retention → Compress what worked → ONE new channel → Founder bandwidth.
  4. Generate docs/business/growth-plan-<YYYY-MM>.md.
  5. Hand off any required follow-up: /processize (codify the source that worked), /multi-ai-review (any paid channel), business-plan-impact-review (pricing/packaging change).

When to use

  • The product has 100+ active users and the 1-a-1 cadence is hitting personal limits.
  • The user says "como cresço sem queimar dinheiro?" / "ninguém mais responde minhas DMs" / "vou rodar ads?".
  • Monthly growth review during the 100 → 1000 phase.

When NOT to use

  • Under 100 active users — use first-100-users instead.
  • Looking for a paid-ads playbook — this skill is intentionally conservative about ads. They are a Tier 4 channel here.
  • Looking for "growth hacks" — the skill rejects vanity metrics and channel diffusion by design.

Cross-references

  • Skill: .claude/skills/grow-sustainably/SKILL.md
  • Principle: ETHOS.md item 14.
  • Predecessor: first-100-users.
  • Often paired with: /processize, /multi-ai-review, usage-monitor, business-plan-impact-review.
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. 10d ago First seen · 49 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 609d40241e59

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grow-sustainably is a command published in the GitHub repository lglucas/ai-dev-operating-system (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 557 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 2026-08-30.