founder-burnout-sustainability

founder-burnout-sustainability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (701 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for treating a founder's health, energy, and judgment as essential operating resources in a small company.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to spot burnout risks, reduce or delegate work, protect recovery time, and make the founder's workload sustainable.
Why use it?
It helps identify when excessive workload, poor recovery, isolation, or lack of progress is reducing the quality of decisions and output.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to spot burnout risks, reduce or delegate work, protect recovery time, and make the founder's workload sustainable.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill founder-burnout-sustainability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 701 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 $0.00086 $0.00701
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00070

Measured 8d ago against content hash 79e400200e89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

founder-burnout-sustainability 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 8d 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.

founder-burnout-sustainability/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Founder Sustainability — Protect the Company's Key Asset

Overview

In a small company the founder is the critical infrastructure: when their energy, health, or judgment fails, the company fails. Burnout isn't a badge — it degrades exactly the decision quality the business depends on, and it's usually the result of an unsustainable system, not weak willpower. Treating founder sustainability as an operational requirement (not self-indulgence) protects the highest-leverage asset you have.

The Process

  1. Read the early signals — dread, cynicism, dropping output/decision quality, sleep/health slipping. Gate: if judgment is already degrading, this is an operational risk, not a mood — act now.
  2. Find the real driver — chronic overload, no recovery, isolation, or lack of progress/control (each has a different fix).
  3. Protect the non-negotiables — sleep, exercise, relationships; these are inputs to decision quality, not rewards for finishing.
  4. Cut or delegate the load — ruthless prioritization, SOP + delegate/automate the draining repetitive work (see sop-systemization, when-to-make-first-hires).
  5. Build recovery into the system — real breaks, boundaries, peer support; a pace you can hold for years, not weeks.
  6. Re-check periodically — sustainability is a maintained state, not a one-time fix. Gate: "I'll rest after this milestone" repeated indefinitely = the trap.

When to Use

  • Sustained overload / declining energy or judgment
  • Before a long push, to design a survivable pace
  • Founder isolation or loss of motivation

Applying It Well

  • Frame recovery as protecting decision quality — it reframes rest as strategy.
  • Delegating/automating the draining tasks fixes the system, not just the symptom.
  • Peer/founder community counters isolation, a top burnout driver.

Red Flags

  • Treating exhaustion as a badge of commitment.
  • "Rest after the next milestone" on infinite repeat.
  • Judgment/health degrading with no change to the system.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 8d ago First seen · 44 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 79e400200e89

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founder-burnout-sustainability is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 701 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 2026-09-03.

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