first-customer-finder

first-customer-finder is a skill for Claude Code from carolinacherry/claude-first-customer-finder-skill. It costs 123 tokens per session (1,498 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research skill for finding and evaluating likely first customers, early adopters, design partners, or beta users using recent public evidence. It turns a startup description or website into a shortlist of plausible prospects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify a primary and adjacent customer group, search for buying signals, and produce a qualified prospect shortlist.
Why use it?
It replaces unsupported guesses about customers with leads tied to signals found in original public sources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the first-customer-finder plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify a primary and adjacent customer group, search for buying signals, and produce a qualified prospect shortlist.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carolinacherry/claude-first-customer-finder-skill/first-customer-finder
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 carolinacherry/claude-first-customer-finder-skill --skill first-customer-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/carolinacherry/claude-first-customer-finder-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install first-customer-finder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,498 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 $0.00123 $0.01498
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00150

Measured 12d ago against content hash ffb1bf52a7ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

first-customer-finder 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/generate_report.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/first-customer-finder/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

First Customer Finder

Turn a startup URL or product description into a short, evidence-backed shortlist of plausible first customers. Every prospect must trace to a real public signal you have verified at the original source. The shortlist is a research hypothesis, not a customer database.

Read references/research-framework.md before searching or scoring. Read references/report-schema.md before generating the report.

Workflow

1. Understand the product

Fetch the supplied URL (and its pricing/about pages if they exist) or read the description. Establish: what the product does, the outcome it sells, who uses it vs. who pays for it, price or buying motion, geography or language constraints, and the single strongest use case.

Commit to one primary ICP and one adjacent ICP, each with pain triggers, positive signals, and explicit disqualifiers. For two-sided products, pick the side with a buying motion as primary — do not hedge by mixing both sides in one shortlist. Label anything you inferred rather than observed. Ask the user one question only if the ambiguity would change where you search.

2. Fan out the signal search

Run the five query buckets from the research framework (explicit demand, pain, workaround, switching, timing) as parallel research subagents — one bucket per agent, each returning candidate signals with source URLs, dates, and verbatim-adjacent summaries. Give each agent the product brief and ICP so it can reject weak matches at the source. Instruct each agent to fetch and quote its sources — an agent may not return a URL it did not open. If the environment has no subagent support, work the buckets sequentially instead.

Vary source types across agents: forums, public social posts, product and marketplace reviews, GitHub issues and feature requests, public company pages, job posts, and changelogs.

3. Verify before you qualify

Fetch the original page for every candidate signal before it can enter the shortlist. A search snippet, an aggregator summary, or a subagent's unquoted paraphrase is not evidence. Confirm the page exists, the signal says what was claimed, and the date. Drop anything that fails. Record source URL, source type, visible publication date (or "date unavailable"), and what was observed versus inferred. When subagents have already fetched and quoted a source, spot-check their work — and always re-verify the top three prospects yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 87 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A ffb1bf52a7ba

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first-customer-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository carolinacherry/claude-first-customer-finder-skill (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 1,498 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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