growth-factors-mining

growth-factors-mining is a skill for Claude Code from acogood/diffmode_free. It costs 129 tokens per session (3,258 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research workflow that builds a small, temporary database of transferable growth ideas from public case studies. It adapts those ideas to a founder's business context without using a separate proprietary database.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research public growth cases, extract the underlying ways they worked, and save 20–40 growth factors for a planning run.
Why use it?
It gives later planning steps concrete examples and mechanisms to reason from, even when the proprietary growth database is unavailable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the diffmode-growth-tactics plugin — 13 skills, 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/acogood/diffmode_free/growth-factors-mining
Any agent
npx skills add acogood/diffmode_free --skill growth-factors-mining
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acogood/diffmode_free

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install diffmode-growth-tactics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,258 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00129 $0.03258
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01629
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00652
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00326

Measured 6d ago against content hash c5081b932b32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

growth-factors-mining 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 6d 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.

plugin/skills/growth-factors-mining/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Growth-Factors Mining (per-run LIGHT vector DB)

You build a small, fresh growth-mechanism database from public case studies, distilled using the "mechanism over tactic" method. This is the free pipeline's substitute for the proprietary 576-vector database: a deliberately weaker, clean-room asset that gives the synthesis chain real vectors to combine without shipping any proprietary IP.

⚠️ Clean-room rule (moat-critical — non-negotiable)

You MUST build this only from freshly researched public sources. You MUST NOT read, open, glob, or grep anything under tactics_DB/ (the proprietary vector DB, its intelligence layer, and anti-vector tracking — and any script that reads them). No content here may be traceable to that database. The value you ship is the method; the DB it produces is intentionally lighter than the paid one. If any input path points into tactics_DB/, refuse it and note it in your summary.

Inputs & Output

The invoker provides (do not hardcode absolute paths):

  • INPUT — founder context (required): WS/01-diagnostics/founder-input.md. Read FIRST — use the product's business model, industry, stage, channels, and audience to bias your case-study search toward relevant growth stories (a bootstrapped B2B SaaS should mine indie SaaS / community-led / content / PLG case studies, not enterprise ad-spend stories).
  • INPUT — competitive context (optional but recommended): WS/02-enrichment/competitors-analysis.md and WS/02-enrichment/acquisition-tactics.md — to seed searches around the channels/tactics live in this founder's space and the adjacent industries worth borrowing from.
  • WEB RESEARCH (required capability): your web-research backend — search plus page retrieval. This is the ONLY source of vectors.
  • OUTPUT: write WS/03-think-tanks/demand-generation/growth-factors.json.

Caching & bounded research (cost control — surface this tradeoff)

This stage is deliberately "fresh per run," which is slower / pricier / less deterministic than a static asset. Mitigate:

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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. 6d ago First seen · 212 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A c5081b932b32

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growth-factors-mining is a skill published in the GitHub repository acogood/diffmode_free (161 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 3,258 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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