bottleneck-diagnostic

bottleneck-diagnostic is a skill for Claude Code from ARCASSystems/FounderOS. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,040 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business self-check that measures how much a company depends on its founder across decisions, clients, and other practical areas. It can use the founder’s answers or public information about a company.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess your own business or review a potential client, partner, or company. It scores five areas and identifies the highest-impact responsibility to hand off.
Why use it?
It shows where work stops or waits for the founder, making it easier to identify the biggest source of dependence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the founder-os plugin — 95 skills, 45 commands, 6 hooks 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/arcassystems/founderos/bottleneck-diagnostic
Any agent
npx skills add ARCASSystems/FounderOS --skill bottleneck-diagnostic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ARCASSystems/FounderOS

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install founder-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 95 skills, 45 commands, 6 hooks.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,040 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 $0.00063 $0.01040
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00520
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00104

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0f362670fcce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bottleneck-diagnostic 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.

skills/bottleneck-diagnostic/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bottleneck Diagnostic

Runs on: reasoning - reads your files and reasons; any capable agent can run this.

This diagnostic finds where the business depends too much on the founder. It can run as a self-assessment or as an external assessment from public signals.

Modes

Mode 1 - Self-Assessment

Use when the founder answers directly.

Mode 2 - External Assessment

Use when the founder is assessing a prospect, partner, or company from public evidence.

Dimensions

Each dimension scores 0 to 20. Higher means more dependency.

1. Decision Dependency

Question: Can decisions happen without the founder in the room?

Self-assessment prompts:

  • How many decisions per week require your approval?
  • If you were unreachable for 48 hours, what would stop?
  • Does the team decide and inform you, or ask first?
  • When did someone make a call you disagreed with and you let it stand?

Public signals:

  • Founder appears to approve every visible action.
  • No leadership team is visible.
  • Hiring posts route operational roles to the founder.

2. Client Dependency

Question: Do clients buy the company or the founder?

Self-assessment prompts:

  • What percentage of clients would leave if you stopped servicing them?
  • Can someone else close a new deal without you?
  • Do clients call your personal phone for business issues?

Public signals:

  • Testimonials name the founder, not the company.
  • Founder is the face of every case study and pitch.
  • No account ownership is visible.

3. Process Dependency

Question: Are operations in a system or in the founder's head?

Self-assessment prompts:

  • If you hired your replacement tomorrow, how long would handover take?
  • How many core processes are documented?
  • When something breaks, does the team follow a process or call you?

Public signals:

  • Repeated hiring for the same role.
  • Vague job posts.
  • Founder content mentions being buried in operations.

4. Revenue Dependency

Question: Can revenue continue without daily founder input?

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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 · 159 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 0f362670fcce

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bottleneck-diagnostic is a skill published in the GitHub repository ARCASSystems/FounderOS (5 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,040 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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