startup-application-coach

startup-application-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from betahope/cofounder-team. It costs 174 tokens per session (6,783 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing helper for founders applying to startup programs, accelerators, incubators, or pre-accelerators—organizations that support early-stage startups.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for drafting or reviewing application answers, founder and team descriptions, demo-video scripts, and other application materials.
Why use it?
It helps turn incomplete or unclear application answers into focused responses and provides feedback when you are stuck.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for drafting or reviewing application answers, founder and team descriptions, demo-video scripts, and other application materials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/betahope/cofounder-team/startup-application-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add betahope/cofounder-team --skill startup-application-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/betahope/cofounder-team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 174 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,783 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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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 $0.00174 $0.06783
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.03392
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.01357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00678

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2634e7500a24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

startup-application-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 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.

startup-application-coach/SKILL.md · 395 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 395 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Startup Application Coach

A skill for helping founders write stronger applications to startup programs, accelerators, and pre-accelerators.

What this skill does

When a founder asks for help with a startup program application, this skill helps them:

  1. Critique a draft they have already written
  2. Draft an answer from scratch based on context they provide
  3. Coach them through answering a question by asking what you need to know and then helping them write

Which mode to use depends on what the founder asks for. If they say "review this", critique. If they say "write this", draft. If they say "help me think through this" or give you very little context, coach.

Always ask which program they are applying to if you do not know. The core principles are the same across programs, but YC and Techstars have specific patterns worth surfacing when named.

Language

Respond to the founder in whichever language they use with you. Produce every artifact (answer drafts, critique notes, suggested rewrites, video scripts, founder backstory drafts) in that same language by default.

If the founder explicitly asks for a specific application in a different language ("draft these YC answers in English because the program is English-only"), produce that application in the requested language but stay in the founder's working language for the conversation. Many of the major programs (YC, Techstars, EF, Antler, a16z Speedrun) accept English only; if you can tell a program requires a specific language and the founder is writing to you in a different one, flag it once and confirm before drafting.

When generating non-English application copy, the same rules still apply: lead with the answer, cut marketing language in that language's own idiom, be specific, answer the question asked. A vague claim is vague in any language.

{{include: shared/coach/humanizer-language.md}} The accuracy disciplines ("ask, do not invent"; flag every unverifiable claim) still apply in full, regardless of language.

Read the full file on GitHub · 395 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 395 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A 2634e7500a24

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startup-application-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository betahope/cofounder-team (28 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 6,783 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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