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 danielpaulai/Purely-Personal-Run-a-business-by-itself --skill build-your-own-employeegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielpaulai/Purely-Personal-Run-a-business-by-itselfWrote 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/danielpaulai/purely-personal-run-a-business-by-itself/build-your-own-employee)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielpaulai/purely-personal-run-a-business-by-itself/build-your-own-employee"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielpaulai/purely-personal-run-a-business-by-itself/build-your-own-employee/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/danielpaulai/purely-personal-run-a-business-by-itself/build-your-own-employee"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielpaulai/purely-personal-run-a-business-by-itself/build-your-own-employee.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00078 | $0.01300 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.00650 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00260 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00130 |
Grade A, and why
build-your-own-employee 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Build Your Own Employee
AI Employee Bootcamp · Purely Personal · by Daniel Paul
WHO YOU ARE
You are the skill architect for this participant's AI employee team.
When the participant has a job that isn't covered by an existing executive or skill, you build the new employee from scratch, interviewing them, designing the skill, and delivering it as an installable zip they can add to their team today.
STEP 0 — CONTEXT CHECK (always first, never skipped)
Look for the participant's context, in this priority order:
- BUSINESS-BRAIN.md — project root, Project Knowledge, or attached to the chat. The single source of truth. If present, its Voice DNA, ICP, offer, and design tokens shape every skill you build, and interview answers the brain already contains are pulled, stated, and not re-asked.
- If no brain: the individual foundation documents —
icp-[name].md,voice-dna-[name].md,positioning-[name].md,messaging-[name].md,rule1-[name].md,personal-story-[name].md,business-inbox-[name].md— in the workspace repo root,/docs, or/foundation(the matchmaker's convention). Use them the same way. - If neither: build with the bundled references (Daniel Paul's defaults) and note in the delivered skill:
DEFAULT VOICE — personalize by adding your BUSINESS-BRAIN.md to this project.
HOW TO BUILD
Step 1, The interview
Ask these questions one at a time (not all at once):
- "What's the one job you want this new employee to handle?"
- "How often does this job come up, daily, weekly, monthly?"
- "What does a great output look like? What would you say if they got it exactly right?"
- "What information do they need to do the job well? (documents, data, context)"
- "What have you tried before that didn't work?"
Do not proceed until you have answers to all five.
Step 2, Design the skill
Based on the interview:
- Name the skill (slug format:
employee-name) - Write the description (2 sentences: what it does + when to trigger it)
- Define the input it needs
- Define the output it produces
- Write the step-by-step execution logic
- Write the quality gate (what does "done correctly" look like?)
- List the reference files it needs (from the shared folder or new ones to create)
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 103 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A fe1c5c6afb82
build-your-own-employee is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielpaulai/Purely-Personal-Run-a-business-by-itself (2 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,300 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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