Solo Decision Framework

Solo Decision Framework is a skill for Claude Code from ericvtheg/solo-founder-toolkit. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,076 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making guide for solo founders choosing what to build, which approach to take, or what to ship next.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for prioritizing features, setting MVP scope, and deciding between building, buying, or doing work manually.
Why use it?
It gives a simple way to compare effort, expected value, and confidence when several options compete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the solo-founder-toolkit plugin — 3 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for prioritizing features, setting MVP scope, and deciding between building, buying, or doing work manually.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericvtheg/solo-founder-toolkit/solo-decision-framework
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add ericvtheg/solo-founder-toolkit --skill solo-decision-framework
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericvtheg/solo-founder-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,076 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 $0.00061 $0.01076
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00538
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00108

Measured 8d ago against content hash 68b9da3c5fd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Solo Decision Framework 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.

plugins/solo-founder-toolkit/skills/solo-decision-framework/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Solo Decision Framework

A pragmatic rubric for solo founders to make quick decisions about what to build and how to build it.

Purpose

Help solo founders make product and implementation decisions quickly using the LIC rubric (Lift, Impact, Conviction). Cut through analysis paralysis and focus on shipping.

When to Use This Skill

Use when the user needs to:

  • Decide which feature to build next
  • Choose between implementation approaches
  • Prioritize competing options
  • Evaluate whether to build something
  • Determine scope (MVP vs full-featured)
  • Make build vs buy vs manual decisions

Do NOT use for tech stack decisions unless explicitly asked. Assume solo founders already know their tools.

The LIC Rubric

Score each option 1-5 on three criteria:

🏋️ Lift - Implementation Effort

How much work to ship this?

  • 5 pts: Ship in 1-2 days, straightforward
  • 3 pts: 1-2 weeks, moderate complexity
  • 1 pt: Months of work, very complex

💥 Impact - Potential Value

How meaningful if it works?

  • 5 pts: Game changer, drives revenue/retention
  • 3 pts: Clear improvement, users notice
  • 1 pt: Minor, barely noticeable

🎯 Conviction - Confidence Level

How confident in the expected impact?

  • 5 pts: Strong evidence, validated, customers asking
  • 3 pts: Logical sense, some signal
  • 1 pt: Pure guess, no validation

Maximum: 15 points per option

Decision Process

Follow these steps:

  1. Clarify the decision - What exactly are we deciding?
  2. List 2-4 options - Concrete approaches (ask if unclear)
  3. Score each option - Apply LIC rubric
  4. Sum totals - Calculate scores (max 15 each)
  5. Recommend winner - Pick highest score
  6. Provide next step - One concrete action

Output Format

### Decision: [What we're deciding]

**Options:**
1. [Name] - [brief description]
2. [Name] - [brief description]
3. [Name] - [brief description]

---

**Option 1: [Name]**
- 🏋️ Lift: X/5 - [one line reasoning]
- 💥 Impact: X/5 - [one line reasoning]
- 🎯 Conviction: X/5 - [one line reasoning]
- **TOTAL: X/15**

**Option 2: [Name]**
- 🏋️ Lift: X/5 - [one line reasoning]
- 💥 Impact: X/5 - [one line reasoning]
- 🎯 Conviction: X/5 - [one line reasoning]
- **TOTAL: X/15**

[Repeat for remaining options]

---

### ✅ Ship this: [Winning option]

**Why:** [2-3 sentences explaining the pragmatic choice]

**Next step:** [One concrete action to take now]

**Revisit if:** [Specific signal to reconsider]

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 8d ago First seen · 150 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 68b9da3c5fd1

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Solo Decision Framework is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericvtheg/solo-founder-toolkit (8 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,076 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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