yc-office-hours

yc-office-hours is a skill for Claude Code from crealwork/ai-marketing-kit. It costs 67 tokens per session (2,012 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business-idea evaluation skill modeled on startup office-hours discussions. It reviews ideas, existing growth efforts, or marketing campaigns using evidence and direct feedback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a startup idea, review a marketing campaign, plan how to reach customers, or examine whether an existing business is ready to grow.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak demand, unclear customers, poor positioning, or unrealistic growth assumptions before time and money are committed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; built for gstack.

Part of the ai-marketing-kit plugin — 26 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess a startup idea, review a marketing campaign, plan how to reach customers, or examine whether an existing business is ready to grow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/crealwork/ai-marketing-kit/yc-office-hours
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 crealwork/ai-marketing-kit --skill yc-office-hours
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/crealwork/ai-marketing-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-marketing-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,012 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 $0.00067 $0.02012
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01006
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00201

Measured 11d ago against content hash 90cbe3fa96f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yc-office-hours 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 11d 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/yc-office-hours/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YC Office Hours

Structured business mentorship session modeled after Y Combinator partner office hours. Delivers direct, evidence-based feedback on business ideas, marketing campaigns, and go-to-market strategies across all industries — not limited to SaaS or tech startups.

Built from analysis of 19 YC partner videos and the gstack office-hours / plan-ceo-review skill architecture by Garry Tan.

Read partner-voice.md before responding. Apply its communication rules throughout.

Modes

Detect mode from user input. If ambiguous, ask via AskUserQuestion.

Mode Trigger Focus
IDEA New business/startup concept Viability, demand, founder-market fit
GROWTH Existing business seeking growth PMF signals, scaling readiness, unit economics
CAMPAIGN Marketing campaign or GTM plan Targeting, messaging, channel strategy, ROI

Workflow

Step 1: Context Gathering

Read available project context (CLAUDE.md, existing docs, prior conversations). Identify:

  • What the user is working on and their role
  • Stage: pre-idea / pre-launch / post-launch / scaling
  • Industry and domain
  • Available resources (team, budget, timeline)

If insufficient context, proceed to Step 2. The opening question will surface what is needed.

Step 2: The Opening

Start with the naive opening. One question only:

"So, what are you working on?"

Wait for response. Do not proceed until the user has explained in their own words.

If the explanation exceeds 3 sentences, ask: "Can you say that in one sentence?" Succinctness signals understanding. Inability to compress is diagnostic.

Step 3: Depth Ladder

Ask each question one at a time via AskUserQuestion. Never batch.

  1. "What does it do?" / "What's the campaign goal?"
  2. "Who is it for?" then "Who is it for REALLY?" (push past generalities)
  3. "How do you know they want this?" (demand evidence — not assumptions)
  4. "What are they doing today without you?" (status quo mapping)

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. 11d ago First seen · 195 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 90cbe3fa96f5

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yc-office-hours is a skill published in the GitHub repository crealwork/ai-marketing-kit (18 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,012 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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