What is start-product?

A starting record for a new product that captures its name, description, target users, and unverified beliefs about those users. It saves this context in a product overview file for other product-work tools to use.

Use it when beginning product discovery from scratch to document who the product is for, what it is meant to do, and what still needs validation.

It gives product work a shared starting point instead of leaving important assumptions scattered across conversations. It also clearly separates beliefs from confirmed facts.

start-product — Skill for Claude Code by alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills

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.

Any agent

npx skills add alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills --skill start-product

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install afpm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills/start-product/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills/start-product)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills/start-product"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills/start-product/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills/start-product"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills/start-product.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,689 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 unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00047	$0.01689
Opus 5.5	$0.00019	$0.00676
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00338
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00169

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8f397114ff4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-product 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 1mo 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.

afpm/skills/start-product/SKILL.md · 85 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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.

1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 8f397114ff4f
2mo ago Changed · +36 lines · +8 tokens per session 480568c201d3
2mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 1ccf8df0fce6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start-product is a skill published in the GitHub repository alaimo-labs/ai-first-skills (13 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,689 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Planning Research

start-product next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
start-productalaimo-labs/ai-first-skills	Skill	13	13d ago	none	A	47	Claude Code
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	134k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	100k	today	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	3d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
browser-automationopenclaw/openclaw	Skill	394k	today	MIT	A	36	Claude Code
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	315k	6d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	95	Claude Code