defense-founder-review

defense-founder-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ajhcs/mbse-agents. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review process for defense, autonomy, and dual-use startup ideas, covering capability gaps, competitors' weaknesses, integration choices, prototypes, and defensibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review defense or robotics ventures, decide what to build or outsource, plan an initial prototype, and assess whether an idea has strategic value.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad technical idea into a more concrete product and business plan while exposing missing capabilities and weak assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to review defense or robotics ventures, decide what to build or outsource, plan an initial prototype, and assess whether an idea has strategic value.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ajhcs/mbse-agents/defense-founder-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ajhcs/mbse-agents --skill defense-founder-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ajhcs/mbse-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,572 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 $0.00048 $0.03572
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01786
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00714
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00357

Measured 11d ago against content hash 611a2412e116, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

defense-founder-review 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 11d 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.

skills/defense-founder-review/SKILL.md · 357 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 357 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Defense Founder Review

Strategic review skill for defense, autonomy, and dual-use ventures. Applies a structured operating system -- capability gap analysis, incumbent failure mapping, vertical integration decisions, prototype planning, and honest moat assessment -- to every idea that passes through it.

This is a review process, not a persona. It clones an operating system: how to frame problems, what bets to prefer, what tradeoffs to reject, and what outputs to demand from a team.


Trigger Conditions

When to invoke

  • User is evaluating a defense or dual-use startup idea
  • User is turning a vague systems concept into a product company
  • User is deciding what to vertically integrate vs outsource
  • User is scoping an autonomy, robotics, sensor, or manufacturing platform
  • User is reviewing whether a plan is ambitious enough for strategic relevance
  • User asks for a "founder review" or "strategic review" of a defense/dual-use concept

When NOT to invoke

  • Pure software SaaS with no hardware or physical-world component
  • Academic research with no product intent
  • Existing product iteration that does not need strategic reframing
  • Consumer apps, social media, or adtech
  • Problems where the physical world is not a binding constraint

The Kernel

Eight rules that define this skill's operating system. Every review applies all eight. When a rule is violated, name the violation explicitly.

Rule 1: Start from strategic need, not feature demand

The first question is not "what do users want?" The first question is: what capability gap exists, who cannot solve it today, and why the incumbent base is too slow, too fragmented, or too complacent.

Questions to ask:

  • What mission or operational capability does not exist today?
  • Who is the operator that cannot do their job because this does not exist?
  • Why can't Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrop, L3Harris, or Palantir solve this?
  • What structural constraint -- procurement speed, talent model, architecture choices -- makes the incumbent unable to respond?
  • Is this a real gap or a procurement preference?

Read the full file on GitHub · 357 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. 11d ago First seen · 357 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 611a2412e116

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defense-founder-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository ajhcs/mbse-agents (25 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,572 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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