north-star

north-star is a command for Claude Code from unixcrh/phuryn-pm-skills. It costs 19 tokens per session (944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business-planning command for choosing a North Star Metric—the one measure that best represents the value a product gives users—and the supporting measures that influence it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define metrics for products such as collaboration software or subscription fitness apps, and to classify the product as attention-, transaction-, or productivity-based.
Why use it?
It helps teams replace unfocused metrics, such as daily active users, with a measure tied more closely to the product's business model and user value.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the pm-marketing-growth plugin — 2 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to define metrics for products such as collaboration software or subscription fitness apps, and to classify the product as attention-, transaction-, or productivity-based.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/unixcrh/phuryn-pm-skills/north-star
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/unixcrh/phuryn-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-marketing-growth, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 944 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 $0.00019 $0.00944
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00472
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00094

Measured 12d ago against content hash d0acb35732da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

north-star 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 12d 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.

pm-marketing-growth/commands/north-star.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/north-star -- North Star Metric Definition

Identify the single metric that best captures the value your product delivers, plus the input metrics that drive it. Classifies your business game and validates against proven criteria.

Invocation

/north-star B2B SaaS for team collaboration
/north-star Consumer fitness app monetized through subscriptions
/north-star Help me fix our North Star — we're tracking DAU but it doesn't feel right

Workflow

Step 1: Understand the Product

Ask:

  • What is the product? What value does it deliver to users?
  • What's the business model? (subscription, transaction, advertising, marketplace)
  • Current metrics being tracked (if any)
  • Why is this needed now? (new product, existing metric feels wrong, team alignment)

Step 2: Classify the Business Game

Apply the north-star-metric skill:

Identify which game the product is playing:

  • Attention: Revenue from user time/engagement (media, social, ad-supported)
  • Transaction: Revenue from purchases (e-commerce, marketplace)
  • Productivity: Revenue from efficiency gains (SaaS, tools, B2B)

The game determines what kind of North Star makes sense.

Step 3: Define the North Star

  • Propose 2-3 North Star candidates
  • Validate each against 7 criteria:
    1. Expresses value delivered to customers
    2. Is a leading indicator of revenue
    3. Is measurable and trackable
    4. Is understandable by the whole team
    5. Is actionable (teams can influence it)
    6. Is not a vanity metric
    7. Is not gameable without delivering real value
  • Recommend the strongest candidate with rationale

Step 4: Define Input Metrics

For the selected North Star, identify 3-5 input metrics:

  • Each input metric should be a lever that directly drives the North Star
  • Each should be ownable by a specific team
  • Together, inputs should be MECE in explaining North Star movement

Step 5: Generate Metrics Framework

## North Star Framework: [Product]

**Business Game**: [Attention / Transaction / Productivity]

### North Star Metric
**Metric**: [precise name]
**Definition**: [formula or measurement method]
**Why this metric**: [explains value, leads revenue, is actionable]
**Current value**: [if known]
**Target**: [goal]

### Validation
| Criterion | Pass? | Notes |
|----------|-------|-------|
| Expresses value | [Y/N] | [explanation] |
| Leading indicator | [Y/N] | [explanation] |
| Measurable | [Y/N] | [explanation] |
| Understandable | [Y/N] | [explanation] |
| Actionable | [Y/N] | [explanation] |
| Not vanity | [Y/N] | [explanation] |
| Not gameable | [Y/N] | [explanation] |

### Input Metrics
| Input Metric | Drives North Star By | Owner | Current | Target |
|-------------|---------------------|-------|---------|--------|

### Metrics Constellation
[Visual tree showing North Star → Input Metrics → Team Actions]

### Counter-Metrics
| Metric | Protects Against |
|--------|-----------------|

### Anti-Patterns Avoided
[Why we didn't choose DAU, revenue, or other common but flawed metrics]

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 12d ago First seen · 114 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A d0acb35732da

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north-star is a command published in the GitHub repository unixcrh/phuryn-pm-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 944 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.