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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 | $0.00087 | $0.00660 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00044 | $0.00330 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00132 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00066 |
Grade A, and why
minimum-viable-audience 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 9d 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 — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Minimum Viable Audience — Win a Small Specific Group First
Overview
The Minimum Viable Audience (Seth Godin) is the smallest group of people whose problem you can solve so well they tell others — the deliberate opposite of appealing to everyone. Specificity is the strategy: a tight audience lets you make something remarkable, and remarkable travels. Trying to serve everyone produces something no one loves.
When to Use
- "Everyone is our customer" thinking
- Weak word-of-mouth / bland positioning
- Creators, indie products, and SMBs with no ad budget who need organic spread
The Process
- Name a specific person, not a demographic — worldview, where they gather, what they already believe.
- Size the smallest audience that sustains you (revenue ÷ per-customer value = the number you actually need). Gate: if the number is "millions to survive," the model, not the audience, is the problem.
- Make something they'd miss if it vanished — remarkable to them, not to the average person.
- Show up where they already are; earn attention by being the best answer for that group.
- Engineer word-of-mouth: give them a reason and the language to tell peers. Gate: if it isn't share-worthy to this group, tighten the audience or the offer.
- Expand only after saturation — adjacent audiences, once the core loves it.
Applying It Well
- "Smaller" feels scary but concentrates limited resources where they compound.
- Better to be loved by 1,000 than tolerated by 100,000.
- Positioning, product, and channel all sharpen once the person is specific.
Red Flags
- Broadening the audience to feel safer (dilutes everything).
- Defining the audience by demographics instead of worldview.
- No mechanism for the core to spread the word.
Verification
- A specific person (worldview + gathering place) named
- Survival audience size computed and realistic
- Offer is remarkable to that exact group
- A word-of-mouth trigger designed in
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 76d43de9c1d1
minimum-viable-audience is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 660 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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