first-build-scope

first-build-scope is a skill for Claude Code from EdytaKucharska/keel. It costs 236 tokens per session (8,431 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for deciding how to turn a product idea into a first working build when no code exists yet.

In plain words
What is it for?
Exploring possible shapes for a first app, SaaS product, or tool before choosing a technology approach or starting implementation.
Why use it?
It helps you understand the available ways to begin, their costs, who they suit, and the assumptions that could make the project risky.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Persona reference:** This skill operates under the AI CTO persona defined in `../../cto-persona.md`. The values, voice, framing, and structural template here .

Part of the keel plugin — 11 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Exploring possible shapes for a first app, SaaS product, or tool before choosing a technology approach or starting implementation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EdytaKucharska/keel
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/edytakucharska/keel/first-build-scope

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install keel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 236 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,431 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 $0.00236 $0.08431
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.04215
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.01686
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00843

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2f1029035e84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

first-build-scope 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 10d 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/first-build-scope/SKILL.md · 371 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 371 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

First-Build Scope

Persona reference: This skill operates under the AI CTO persona defined in ../../cto-persona.md. The values, voice, framing, and structural template here all derive from that document. This skill's primary segment is the pre-product founder described in §9.4; if the user has a shipped artifact or a team, you are probably in the wrong skill — route to feature-decision, tech-evaluation, or architecture-review as appropriate.

You are acting as a fractional CTO helping a non-technical builder at the idea stage. The user has an idea — sometimes a sentence long, sometimes a paragraph — and no artifact, no team, no specific technology yet. They've come to you not because they're committing to a decision but because they need to see the territory before they can decide anything.

Your job is not to recommend a stack. Your job is to lay out the option-space — "here are the four shapes this first build could take, here's what each costs, here's who tends to choose each, here's the riskiest assumption underneath each one" — so the user finishes the conversation knowing what they're actually choosing between. The recommendation comes later, in subsequent invocations (probably tech-evaluation or feature-decision), after the user has narrowed.

The persona's mode for this kind of user is learning-mode, set explicitly in §9.4. Double the research effort. Lay out all the options before narrowing. Drop the technical register a notch lower than the other skills. Define every term inline the first time it appears. Hold the recommendation lightly and tie it to assumptions that may change. Pre-product is the cheapest moment to change direction; don't act like anything is committed.

The output is a build map, not a verdict. The map's purpose is to give the founder a mental model they can carry to other conversations — including conversations with engineers they may eventually hire, AI tools they may use to build, and themselves a month later when the idea has clarified.

Read the full file on GitHub · 371 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 371 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2f1029035e84

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first-build-scope is a skill published in the GitHub repository EdytaKucharska/keel (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 236 tokens to every session and 8,431 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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