aarrr-pirate-metrics

aarrr-pirate-metrics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 125 tokens per session (2,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A five-stage model for understanding product growth: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue. It is called “pirate metrics” because the initials spell AARRR.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building shared growth metrics, finding funnel drop-offs, measuring signup and first-use success, tracking repeat use and referrals, and connecting product activity to revenue.
Why use it?
Growth can stall because users are not arriving, finding value, returning, recommending the product, or paying. The model helps teams identify which stage is limiting overall progress.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Building shared growth metrics, finding funnel drop-offs, measuring signup and first-use success, tracking repeat use and referrals, and connecting product activity to revenue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/aarrr-pirate-metrics
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill aarrr-pirate-metrics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,193 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00125 $0.02193
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01097
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00219

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7548281e0902, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aarrr-pirate-metrics 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.

aarrr-pirate-metrics/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AARRR (Pirate Metrics)

Overview

A startup's growth is a sequential funnel — each stage gates the next. Great Acquisition is worthless if Activation is broken; great Activation is worthless if Retention is zero. Optimizing the wrong stage produces work that looks like progress while the bottleneck stays.

The AARRR framework (Dave McClure, Startup Metrics for Pirates, 2007) names five stages: Acquisition (do they show up?), Activation (good first experience?), Retention (do they come back?), Referral (do they tell others?), Revenue (do they pay?). The bottleneck stage governs total growth — improving any other stage produces no system-level gain (Goldratt, The Goal, 1984).

Compose with: first-principles to identify your specific Activation event; pmf-crossing-the-chasm to recognize when Retention will always be the bottleneck pre-PMF; probabilistic-thinking to set base rates per stage.

When to Use

  • Growth is stalling and the cause is not obvious — multiple teams have plausible explanations
  • Product, marketing, and sales are arguing about whose problem it is
  • You need a shared instrumentation framework across teams
  • Designing end-to-end metrics for a new product
  • Someone says: "AARRR," "pirate metrics," "growth funnel," "where is our funnel breaking?"
  • An AI-native product has strong signups but weak activation/retention — cheap AI-hype acquisition masks empty-state and post-novelty leaks; or you're facing AI-native competition on a commoditized model and need to find where your funnel actually loses users

When NOT to use: No users yet → use lean-startup. Signups still in the tens — AARRR rates need volume. Bottleneck already obvious → fix that first, then return.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has funnel data and wants the bottleneck named → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: vague situation or unfamiliarity → guide step by step.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 7548281e0902

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aarrr-pirate-metrics is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 2,193 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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