angel-diligence

angel-diligence is a skill for Claude Code from conorbronsdon/agent-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (2,579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for investigating a startup before making an angel investment, which is an early investment by an individual. It produces a structured deal memo from public evidence and supplied materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a startup, prepare an investment memo, check pitch-deck claims, or prepare questions for a founder call.
Why use it?
It gathers supporting facts and separates verified information from claims that cannot be confirmed, helping an investor prepare without treating uncertain information as fact.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to research a startup, prepare an investment memo, check pitch-deck claims, or prepare questions for a founder call.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/conorbronsdon/agent-skills/angel-diligence
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 conorbronsdon/agent-skills --skill angel-diligence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/conorbronsdon/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,579 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 $0.00079 $0.02579
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01290
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00516
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00258

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9197c0717a93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

angel-diligence 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.

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.

angel-diligence/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/angel-diligence: Pre-Investment Deal Memo

Given a company name (plus optional deck notes, founder names, round details), research the company from public sources and produce a structured deal memo. Every factual claim is cited. Anything unverifiable is labeled. The memo ends in a verdict scaffold, not a recommendation. The human decides.

Invocation: deliberately model-invocable — "diligence [company]" is the trigger. Research is read-only; deck contents never leave the session.

When to Use

  • "Diligence [company]" / "research [company] for an angel check"
  • "Build a deal memo for [company]"
  • Before a founder call, to generate the highest-information questions
  • After receiving a deck, to check the claims in it against public evidence

Skip for public companies (use an equity research workflow) and for follow-on rounds where you already hold a position and want a position review.

Evidence Rules (read before researching)

These rules override speed. A short memo with real citations beats a long memo with invented facts.

  1. Every factual claim needs a fetched source. A claim goes in the memo only if you fetched a page that supports it. Cite the URL inline next to the claim. Model memory is not a source; it is stale by definition for startups.
  2. "Could not verify" is a valid finding. If a search comes up empty, write "could not verify" next to the claim. Do not fill gaps with plausible guesses. An absence of evidence is itself a signal worth reporting.
  3. Date everything. Every cited fact gets the date of the source page (or "undated"). Funding databases, team pages, and pricing pages go stale fast. A 14-month-old headcount number presented as current is a hallucination with a citation. Funding data is the worst offender: aggregator databases (Crunchbase mirrors, Tracxn) often miss the latest round or conflate rounds. Prefer the primary announcement, and treat any funding fact older than 6 months as possibly superseded by an unannounced round.
  4. Separate verified from claimed. Anything sourced only from the company itself (deck, website, founder posts) is "claimed." Anything confirmed by an independent source (customer post, public repo, conference talk by a user) is "verified." Press is verified only when it quotes a customer or third party speaking from their own experience; an article that only quotes the founders or investors is still "claimed." Label each traction item as one or the other.
  5. No invented numbers. Never state a TAM, ARR, valuation, or growth rate that does not appear in a fetched source. Market sizing must be built bottom-up from cited inputs (number of potential buyers x plausible contract value), with the arithmetic shown.
  6. Confidentiality: never paste deck contents into web searches. Deck notes the user provides may be under NDA or simply private. Use them to know what to look for, then search in generic terms ("[company] pricing", "[company] customers"). Never put deck numbers, customer names from the deck, or roadmap details into a search query or any other external tool. The company's name and public website are not confidential; use them freely even if you learned them from the deck. Litmus test for any query: could someone who never saw the deck have written it? If not, do not run it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 106 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 9197c0717a93

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angel-diligence is a skill published in the GitHub repository conorbronsdon/agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 2,579 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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