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.
npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill startup-strategygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/startup-strategy)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/startup-strategy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/startup-strategy/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/startup-strategy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/startup-strategy.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00038 | $0.04008 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.02004 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00802 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00401 |
Grade A, and why
startup-strategy 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 384 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Startup Strategy Skill
Core Principles
Startups are not smaller versions of big companies. They are temporary organizations designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Until you find product-market fit, everything is an experiment. After you find it, everything is about execution and growth.
The Five Commandments of Startup Strategy
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Build something people want. This sounds obvious, yet most startups fail because they build something nobody needs. Everything else is secondary.
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Speed is your only advantage. Big companies have resources, brand, distribution, and talent. Your only edge is the ability to move faster, iterate, and learn.
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Measure what matters. Vanity metrics (page views, registered users) feel good but lie. Actionable metrics (retention, revenue, activation) tell the truth.
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Founder-market fit is non-negotiable. You must deeply understand the problem and the customer. Outsiders can't build what insiders can see.
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Fundraising is a means, not an end. Raising money is not a milestone. It's fuel. The destination is a sustainable, scalable business.
Startup Maturity Model
| Stage | Name | Key Question | Duration | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Idea | Is this problem worth solving? | 1-4 weeks | Building the wrong thing |
| 2 | Validation | Will anyone pay for this? | 1-3 months | False positives/negatives |
| 3 | Traction | Can we acquire customers efficiently? | 3-12 months | Running out of runway |
| 4 | Growth | Can we scale what's working? | 12-24 months | Breaking the product/team |
| 5 | Scale | Can we build a lasting company? | 2-5+ years | Losing the culture |
Critical insight: Each stage has a different playbook. Don't try to scale before you have traction. Don't optimize before you validate. Match your strategy to your maturity level.
Lean Methodology
Build-Measure-Learn Loop
The fundamental unit of progress in a startup is not features shipped — it is validated learning.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 384 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 78498d5e32d2
startup-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (470 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 4,008 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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