"grad-born-global"

"grad-born-global" is a skill for Claude Code from charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,197 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of grad-born-global, MIT.

A framework for analyzing companies that sell significantly in other countries soon after they are founded, rather than expanding abroad gradually.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate early internationalization plans, identify the capabilities needed to operate globally, and judge whether a young company fits the born-global pattern.
Why use it?
It helps assess whether a startup or small business can pursue international markets despite limited resources, using specialist knowledge, networks, and focused global niches.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to evaluate early internationalization plans, identify the capabilities needed to operate globally, and judge whether a young company fits the born-global pattern.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill/grad-born-global
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 charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill --skill grad-born-global
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,197 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00062 $0.01197
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00120

Measured 9d ago against content hash ff7d18d308c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

"grad-born-global" 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to grad-born-global — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/grad-born-global/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Born Global: Resource-Constrained Rapid Internationalization

Overview

Born globals are firms that internationalize at or near founding, achieving significant foreign sales (typically 25%+ of revenue) within 3 years of inception. They challenge the Uppsala model's assumption of gradual, stage-based internationalization. Born globals succeed not through scale or accumulated experience, but through knowledge intensity, network relationships, and focus on global niche markets. They are most common in knowledge-intensive, technology-driven industries.

When to Use

Trigger conditions:

  • User is evaluating whether a startup should target international markets from day one
  • User asks how small firms internationalize without the resources of MNCs
  • User needs to assess whether a firm fits the born global profile
  • User mentions "born global", "international new venture", "early internationalization", or "global startup"

When NOT to use:

  • For established firms expanding gradually -> use grad-uppsala
  • For FDI mode choice for large multinationals -> use grad-oli
  • For industry-level competitive advantage -> use grad-diamond

Assumptions

IRON LAW: Born Globals Succeed Through Knowledge Intensity
          and Network Relationships, NOT Scale

A born global cannot out-resource an MNC. Its advantages are:
1. Unique knowledge or technology (hard to imitate)
2. Network relationships that provide market access and legitimacy
3. Niche focus that large firms find unattractive

If the firm lacks ALL THREE, early internationalization is premature
and will likely fail. Scale-dependent businesses cannot be born global.
  • The founder's international experience and network are critical enablers
  • Niche markets are too small for MNCs to pursue aggressively
  • Digital infrastructure lowers the cost of international coordination
  • Born globals are resource-constrained and must be highly selective in market choice

Methodology

Step 1: Assess Born Global Eligibility

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 9d ago First seen · 114 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A ff7d18d308c5

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"grad-born-global" is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill (26 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,197 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to grad-born-global, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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