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.
npx skills add ace3000chao/book2startup --skill less-is-more-prioritiesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ace3000chao/book2startupWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ace3000chao/book2startup/less-is-more-priorities)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ace3000chao/book2startup/less-is-more-priorities"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ace3000chao/book2startup/less-is-more-priorities/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ace3000chao/book2startup/less-is-more-priorities"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ace3000chao/book2startup/less-is-more-priorities.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00095 | $0.01698 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00048 | $0.00849 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00340 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00170 |
Grade A, and why
less-is-more-priorities 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Less Is More Priorities
R — 原文 (Reading)
"Set a handful of Priorities (the fewer the better)."
— Verne Harnish, Scaling Up, 第9章
I — 方法论骨架 (Interpretation)
Scaling Up 的优先级哲学极其明确:优先事项越少越好,季度主题最好只有1个。背后的认知科学依据是:人类心智处理多任务时有极高的切换成本,聚焦才能产生突破性成果。
"什么都重要 = 什么都不重要"不是比喻,是神经科学事实。当一个团队同时推进10个 initiatives,每个 initiatives 只能获得10%的注意力,实际上什么都做不透。
3倍行业利润率需要的是在少数关键点上做到极致,而非在多个平庸维度上略有改善。聚焦不是放弃,而是有意识地选择不做什么。
A1 — 书中的应用 (Past Application)
案例 1: 某SaaS公司的季度"只有一件事"
- 问题: 创始团队每季度初列出15个"优先级",到季度末发现真正完成的只有2-3个,其他都半途而废。
- 方法论的使用: 强制要求每个部门只选1个季度最高优先事项,全公司层面只选3个。资源倒推:如果这1件事没做完,下季度不开启新事项。
- 结论: 季度目标减少到3个后,完成率从20%提升到85%。
- 结果: 虽然做的事情变少,但每个核心指标的改善幅度显著增大。
案例 2: 零售连锁的聚焦转型
- 问题: 30家门店同时推进数字化、新品类、会员体系、培训升级4个战略项目,资源分散,每项推进缓慢。
- 方法论的使用: 高管团队花两天时间用"Opportunity Discovery"方法论重新排序。结论:未来两个季度只聚焦"单店客流提升",其他三项作为支持项而非独立战略。
- 结论: 量化后发现:单店客流每提升10%,整体收入提升大于其他3项总和的预期贡献。
- 结果: 两个季度后单店客流提升22%,整体利润增长超过前两年的总和。
A2 — 触发场景 (Future Trigger) ★
用户会在什么情境下需要这个 skill?
- 季度规划时:用户开始列季度目标,一二三四五六七……超过3个时。
- 感到团队疲于奔命时:用户说"大家都很忙但好像没什么进展"。
- 战略讨论无法收敛时:高管会议讨论战略,列了8个方向但无法达成共识。
- 新项目立项时:用户问"这个新项目要不要做"——需要先问:如果做这个,原来哪个项目会被替换?
- KPI过多导致团队迷茫时:当团队有15个KPI需要跟踪,每个人都认为自己的指标最重要。
语言信号 (用户的话里出现这些就应激活)
- "事情太多了……"
- "优先级……"
- "聚焦……"
- "先做哪个……"
- "想做的事太多"
- "这也很重要那也很重要"
与相邻 skill 的区分
- 与
OPSP Alignment的区别:OPSP是全公司对齐的工具,Less Is More是优先级排序的原则——先决定不做什么,OPSP才能有效传达。 - 与
Fast Pulse Fast Growth的区别:快脉搏是节奏设计,这个是聚焦设计——节奏对了但聚焦错了,同样无效。
E — 可执行步骤 (Execution)
当 skill 被激活后,agent 应按以下步骤执行:
-
列举当前所有"优先级"并强制排序
- 让用户或团队列出所有正在推进和计划推进的事项(不超过2分钟快速列举)
- 完成标准:得到一份完整清单
-
用"消除法"而非"选择法"做筛选
- 问:如果只能留3件事,你会留哪3件?再问:如果只能留1件呢?
- 引导用户理解:被筛掉的事项不是"不做",而是"这个季度不做"
- 判停条件:若团队能快速达成共识(<15分钟),跳过步骤3
-
为选定的优先事项分配70%资源
- 明确:每个优先事项的负责人、关键里程碑、所需资源占比
- 规则:任何新增优先事项,必须从现有清单中移除对等数量的事项
- 完成标准:产出一份"本季度Top3 + 冷冻清单"的文档
B — 边界 (Boundary) ★
不要在以下情况使用此 skill
- 紧急危机处理时:危机响应需要即时动员全部资源,但危机过后必须立刻回归聚焦状态。
- 早期探索阶段:产品市场契合度未确认前,尝试本身就是聚焦——过早收窄会错过正确答案。
- 合规和法定义务:这类事项无论多"低优先级"都不能从清单移除。
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 130 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 18c1640d3932
less-is-more-priorities is a skill published in the GitHub repository ace3000chao/book2startup (80 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,698 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.
Other skills, from other repositories
stoic-mortality-and-perspective
Applies the Stoic practice of memento mori -- meditation on mortality -- as a tool for entrepreneurial clarity, urgency, and perspective. Teaches how the awareness of death sharpens focus, eliminates trivial distractions, accelerates decision-making, informs legacy thinking, and provides the 'view from above' that…
focus-and-priority-management
Delivers daily scheduling habits, meeting hygiene, attention management, and boundary-setting techniques for leaders whose calendars have become their strategy by default. Use when urgent tasks crowd out important ones, when meeting load exceeds productive work time, when a leader cannot recall their last hour of…
html-ppt-zhangzara-blue-professional
OpenDesign's QBR for the executive committee: what moved, what stalled, and the resource reallocation ask. Built as a decision-grade corporate strategy deck for executive committee.
html-ppt-zhangzara-mat
A margin-recovery diagnosis for a regional grocery chain — the governing thought, the driver tree, the priorities, and the roadmap. Built as a decision-grade consulting deck for client sponsor, steering committee.
html-ppt-zhangzara-soft-editorial
A digital-transformation roadmap for a legacy insurer — the diagnosis, the sequenced bets, and the operating rhythm to land them. Built as a decision-grade consulting deck for client executives.
simple-deck
OpenDesign's operating review: growth, burn, and the concrete path to sustainability without losing the open ethos. Built as a decision-grade corporate strategy deck for leadership team.