solo-founder-toolkit: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

solo-founder-toolkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ericvtheg/solo-founder-toolkit. It costs 1,049 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of development guidance for solo founders, independent software makers, and small teams. It defines required practices for creating plugin skills, agents, commands, hooks, integrations, and settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or reviewing components of the Solo Founder Toolkit plugin, including skills, agents, commands, hooks, MCP integrations, settings, and plugin structure.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent process for building plugin parts and checking them afterward, reducing structural mistakes in fast-moving projects.

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CLAUDE.md · 105 lines

How it starts

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Solo Founder Toolkit

A Claude Code plugin designed for solo founders, indie hackers, and small teams who are shipping fast and iterating quickly.

CRITICAL: Always Use Available Skills and Agents

Before doing ANY task, check if a skill or agent exists for it and use it.

This is a plugin development project. The skills and agents listed below exist specifically to help build plugin components. You MUST use them proactively - don't wait to be asked.

Mandatory Skill/Agent Usage Rules

When creating skills → Use skill-development skill FIRST When creating agents → Use agent-development skill FIRST When creating commands → Use command-development skill FIRST When creating hooks → Use hook-development skill FIRST When adding MCP integration → Use mcp-integration skill FIRST When adding plugin settings → Use plugin-settings skill FIRST When scaffolding plugin structure → Use plugin-structure skill FIRST

After creating/modifying components:

  • Use skill-reviewer agent to validate skills
  • Use plugin-validator agent to validate overall plugin structure

Why this matters: These tools exist to prevent mistakes and follow best practices. Not using them wastes time and creates technical debt.

Plugin Location

All plugin components live in: plugins/solo-founder-toolkit/

Target Audience

This toolkit is built for:

  • Solo founders building and launching products independently
  • Indie hackers focused on rapid iteration and revenue
  • Small teams that need to move fast without over-engineering
  • Bootstrapped builders who wear multiple hats (dev, ops, marketing)

Goals

Help solo founders:

  • Ship faster - Reduce decision fatigue and analysis paralysis
  • Build with confidence - Validate technical decisions without a team
  • Stay lean - Avoid over-engineering and unnecessary complexity
  • Focus on what matters - Prioritize features that drive revenue and traction

Example Use Cases

  • Getting a quick audit before launching a new feature
  • Generating marketing content from development progress
  • Making pragmatic technical decisions without overthinking
  • Setting up monitoring and error tracking efficiently
  • Validating pricing and go-to-market strategies
  • Optimizing cloud costs and infrastructure spend
  • Understanding when "good enough" is actually good enough
  • Building and optimizing landing pages for conversion
  • Getting CRO feedback on copy and page structure
  • Setting up lean analytics and conversion tracking

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

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solo-founder-toolkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ericvtheg/solo-founder-toolkit (8 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,049 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 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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