activation-design

activation-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from event4u-app/agent-config. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for defining or reviewing a product’s activation event—the first meaningful action that shows a new user has reached the product’s initial benefit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing an activation event, testing whether it predicts retention, and adapting that event for different user groups or product loops.
Why use it?
It replaces vague milestones such as signing up or logging in with an event that can be tested against later retention or paid use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Choosing an activation event, testing whether it predicts retention, and adapting that event for different user groups or product loops.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/event4u-app/agent-config/activation-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add event4u-app/agent-config --skill activation-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/event4u-app/agent-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,986 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 $0.00039 $0.01986
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00993
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00199

Measured 8d ago against content hash c8608c298f3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

activation-design 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.

src/skills/activation-design/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

activation-design

When to use

  • The activation event is "signed up" or "logged in" and the funnel looks healthy while retention sinks — the event does not correlate with paid or D30, so the metric is a vanity surface.
  • A new segment is being routed against an activation event built for a previous segment — the aha moment differs by segment and the metric needs to be re-keyed.
  • A product loop redesign needs activation to complete the loop's first cycle (handover from retention-loops) — the activation event must match the binding loop's first reward, not an arbitrary product step.

Do NOT use to design the day-0-to-day-30 milestone path (route to onboarding-design), the long-running retention loops themselves (route to retention-loops), or the full visitor-to-paid funnel diagnosis (route to funnel-analysis).

Cognition cluster

  • Mental model 9 — Hypothesis-driven thinking. "Event E is the activation moment because users who reach E retain at <rate> vs <base>" is a falsifiable claim with evidence. "E feels important" is not. Pick the event that survives the hypothesis test. See docs/contracts/mental-models.md § 9.
  • Mental model 16 — Leading vs. lagging indicators. Paid is lagging; the activation event must be leading — observable before the user has paid, and correlated with the lagging outcome. An activation event that is itself lagging cannot drive a decision in time. See mental-models.md § 16.
  • Mental model 13 — Occam's razor. When candidate events compete, the simpler one (single observable action) wins if it correlates as well as a composite. Composite events hide noise behind apparent precision. See mental-models.md § 13.
  • Context-spine — product + customer-segment + funnel-stage. Read the product slot for what counts as a meaningful buyer action in-product (the action must be observable in instrumentation), the customer-segment slot for the segment's switch-event (the aha moment is the segment's job done once), and the funnel-stage slot for activation's position relative to signup and paid. See context-spine.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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 · 170 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A c8608c298f3a

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activation-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository event4u-app/agent-config (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,986 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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