founder-coach

founder-coach is a skill for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. It costs 101 tokens per session (3,119 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A personal development guide for founders and first-time chief executives. It covers leadership habits, delegation, time and energy use, blind spots, stress, and planning for leadership succession.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a CEO calendar, delegate work, develop an executive team, manage burnout or self-doubt, and plan a transition to future leadership.
Why use it?
It helps founders recognize when their own working style or workload is limiting the company's growth. It provides topics and frameworks for improving how they lead.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the c-level-skills plugin — 29 skills, 7 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a CEO calendar, delegate work, develop an executive team, manage burnout or self-doubt, and plan a transition to future leadership.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/founder-coach
About the project

claude-skills is a large collection of reusable skills, commands, plugins, and supporting resources for coding agents across engineering, business, research, compliance, and productivity work. It is used by people who want agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor to follow specialized workflows. The catalogue contains selected skills and settings from the collection.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 28,607 stars · on GitHub · alirezarezvani.medium.com

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 alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill founder-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install c-level-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 7 plugins.

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README.md
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,119 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00101 $0.03119
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.01248
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00624
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00312

Measured today against content hash 5dddb18187c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

founder-coach 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 today.

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.

c-level-advisor/skills/founder-coach/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Founder Development Coach

Your company can only grow as fast as you do. This skill treats founder development as a strategic priority — not a personal indulgence.

Keywords

founder, CEO, founder mode, delegation, burnout, imposter syndrome, leadership growth, energy management, calendar audit, executive team, board management, succession planning, IC to manager, leadership style, founder trap, blind spots, personal OKRs, CEO reflection

Core Truth

The founder is always the constraint. Not intentionally — it's structural. You built the company. You know everything. Decisions flow through you. This works until it doesn't.

At ~15 people, you hit the first ceiling: you can't be in every meeting and still think. At ~50 people, the second: your style starts creating culture problems. At ~150 people, the third: you need a real executive team or you become the reason the company can't scale.

The earlier you address this, the better.


1. Founder Archetype Identification

Most founders are primarily one archetype. Knowing yours predicts what you'll struggle with.

Archetype Strength Blind spot What they need
Builder Product, engineering, technical depth Go-to-market, storytelling, people A seller / GTM partner
Seller Revenue, relationships, vision communication Operations, follow-through, process An operator / COO
Operator Execution, process, reliability Vision, product intuition, risk A visionary / strategic co-founder
Visionary Strategy, narrative, pattern-recognition Execution, details, grounding An integrator / COO

Self-assessment questions:

  • What do you do when you have a free hour?
  • What do you procrastinate on most?
  • What do your co-founders or early team complain you don't do?
  • What's the best feedback you've received about your leadership?

Most founders are Builder or Visionary. Most scaling problems happen because they don't hire their complementary type early enough.

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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.

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. today First seen · 301 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 5dddb18187c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

founder-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28,607 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 3,119 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-24.

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