stelow-product-manual-process

stelow-product-manual-process is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calionauta/stelow. It costs 128 tokens per session (2,405 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-discovery process for testing a problem with a manual service before building software. It treats the manual work as a way to learn how people would use the eventual product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a real-world workflow, try it manually or through an outside provider, and decide what should be turned into a product.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of spending time and money automating a process that is not yet understood or useful.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to document a real-world workflow, try it manually or through an outside provider, and decide what should be turned into a product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calionauta/stelow/stelow-product-manual-process
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add calionauta/stelow --skill stelow-product-manual-process
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calionauta/stelow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,405 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 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 $0.00128 $0.02405
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.00962
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00241

Measured 10d ago against content hash ba60290ce629, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stelow-product-manual-process 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 10d 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/stelow-product-manual-process/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Discover the Process — the Valuable Manual Process

Objective: test the execution and usability risk — can you actually deliver the solution? Instead of jumping to full development, experiment with a "valuable manual process".

Tip: only skip this stage if you (1) already have sufficient personal knowledge of the process, or (2) have a strong assumption plus the resources to automate or produce a new simplified solution within the same time and money it would take to discover the process. In general, run this stage.

Don't underestimate the real world: you will probably spend more time and money trying to develop something if you skip this stage without agreed limits.

What to do

Systematize manual or outsourced solutions that let you learn the complete process people will use to solve the problem with the new solution, and how it fits their context. Systematize the process before productizing it.

Sahil Lavingia: "As you complete the first cycle with clients, document every part of the process so that with each subsequent client, you have a guide. This document will be the true MVP of your business — not the minimum viable product we're all trying to build and launch. I'm talking about the valuable manual process that precedes it and will be the foundation for the business you're trying to build. Methodically."

Use the six experimentation principles while running it (see the references of stelow-product-discovery, file 01-experimentation-principles.md).

Examples of a valuable manual process

Personal assistant (concierge) — do it together with the client, live if possible. Identify and offer the best solution for them and collect feedback as you go.

Artisanal backstage (Flintstoning / Wizard of Oz) — offer a solution that looks automated to the person while you do it manually behind the curtain. Reveals bottlenecks and risks fast.

Repackaging — use another company's product or service under your own packaging. Reveals whether something already solves it well and where the improvement points are.

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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. 10d ago First seen · 263 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A ba60290ce629

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stelow-product-manual-process is a skill published in the GitHub repository calionauta/stelow (14 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 2,405 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-10-27.

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