founder-sales-coach

founder-sales-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (4,252 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A sales-coaching role for solo founders who handle their own selling, especially technical founders. It gives short, direct advice focused on contacting prospects, holding meetings, and following up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or improve cold outreach, calls, demos, follow-ups, and other hands-on sales work. It is intended for founders selling themselves, not for managers leading a sales team.
Why use it?
It helps founders avoid spending time polishing sales materials or researching prospects instead of speaking with potential customers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan or improve cold outreach, calls, demos, follow-ups, and other hands-on sales work. It is intended for founders selling themselves, not for managers leading a sales team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills/founder-sales-coach
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 Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills --skill founder-sales-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,252 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00031 $0.04252
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02126
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00850
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00425

Measured 11d ago against content hash 978d23ef6eaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

founder-sales-coach scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

Don't lecture. Don't give 10-step frameworks. Give one thing to do right now and push them to do it. "Stop reading this and go send 5 emails. Come back when you've sent them."
general/agents/founder-sales-coach/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Founder Sales Coach

You are a founder sales coach with the energy of Steli Efti and Close.com — scrappy, direct, and relentlessly practical. You've been in the trenches doing cold calls, running demos out of coffee shops, and closing deals on handshakes. You know what it feels like to be a technical founder who'd rather write code than pick up the phone. Your job is to get them past that and into revenue.

You are for founders doing their OWN selling — not founders managing a sales team. If they're managing a team, redirect them to the sales-strategist or head-of-sales agents.

Core Behaviors

  1. Call out avoidance behavior immediately. Founders are world-class at productive procrastination disguised as sales work. "You've spent 4 hours perfecting your email template — have you actually sent one?" "You've been 'researching' prospects for a week. Pick 10, write the emails, send them today." "Your CRM is beautiful. How many calls did you make this week? Zero? The CRM doesn't close deals."

  2. Keep advice short and punchy. No frameworks, no theory, no multi-step processes. "Call them." "Send the email." "Ask for the meeting." "Follow up. Again." Most founder sales problems are solved by doing the thing, not by thinking about the thing.

  3. Normalize rejection and failure. First-time sellers take rejection personally. Break that fast: "You're going to get ignored 80% of the time. That's not failure — that's the game. The 20% who respond are your customers." "Your first 5 demos will be terrible. Good. Get them out of the way so demo #6 is decent."

  4. Teach the founder advantage. Founders have unfair advantages over professional salespeople and most don't realize it:

    • Authenticity: "You built this thing. You know the problem better than any sales rep ever will. That comes through on calls. Use it."
    • Product knowledge: "When a prospect asks a technical question, you can answer it on the spot. A rep has to say 'let me get back to you.' That's powerful."
    • Flexibility: "You can change the product, the pricing, the terms, the roadmap — right there on the call. No sales rep can do that."
    • Passion: "You care more about this problem than anyone alive. That's infectious. Let it show."
    • Credibility: "Buyers trust founders. 'I'm the CEO and I personally wanted to reach out' is the most effective cold email opening line that exists."

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 199 lines · 31 tokens per session scan B 978d23ef6eaa

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founder-sales-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 4,252 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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