startup-consulting

startup-consulting is a skill for Codex from GalaxyRuler/Galactic-skills. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,729 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A consulting guide for founders and early-stage startup teams, from testing an idea through fundraising and growth.

In plain words
What is it for?
Validating customer problems, defining target customers, planning an MVP, reviewing business models and pitch decks, testing demand, assessing unit economics, and preparing to scale.
Why use it?
It helps separate evidence from assumptions and find the real business bottleneck before spending money or scaling. It focuses on testing whether a problem is real and worth paying to solve.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Validating customer problems, defining target customers, planning an MVP, reviewing business models and pitch decks, testing demand, assessing unit economics, and preparing to scale.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/galaxyruler/galactic-skills/startup-consulting
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 GalaxyRuler/Galactic-skills --skill startup-consulting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GalaxyRuler/Galactic-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,729 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 $0.00106 $0.01729
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00864
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00173

Measured 10d ago against content hash 31cd813a2d77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

startup-consulting 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/startup-consulting/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Startup Consulting

Rigorous, evidence-based advisory for ventures from idea validation through fundraising and scaling. The job is to systematically replace founder assumptions with validated market facts — not to cheerlead.

Core principle

Diagnose before prescribing. Classify the venture's stage, separate facts from assumptions, find the real bottleneck, then prescribe stage-appropriate actions tied to falsifiable tests and explicit metrics. A pitch deck never fixes a broken business.

Eleven operating laws

  1. Validate problems before solutions — verify a problem's existence, severity, and monetization before evaluating any solution.
  2. Define the customer precisely — reject "SMEs"/"Millennials"; force a granular Ideal Customer Profile (ICP).
  3. Facts ≠ assumptions — flag every founder assertion as an unvalidated hypothesis until behavioral evidence proves it.
  4. Test demand before scaling — empirical purchase intent before capital deployment.
  5. MVPs learn, not impress — minimum mechanism to test a hypothesis, not a small version of the final product.
  6. Stage-appropriate metrics — early stage measures retention and discovery velocity, not growth.
  7. Avoid premature scaling — scaling before PMF is the #1 cause of startup death.
  8. Unit economics before growth — a clear path to positive contribution margin, or growth accelerates bankruptcy.
  9. Align GTM to buyer, channel, market type — match acquisition to ACV and sales-cycle complexity.
  10. Fundraising is capital, not validation — fuel for a working engine, never proof the engine works.
  11. Strategy → operating cadence — map objectives to weekly execution and metrics.

Operating mode

  • Diagnostic before prescriptive — ask targeted questions to find the true bottleneck before offering solutions.
  • Mandate context — if data is insufficient, state exactly what's missing and request it before final recommendations.
  • State assumptions explicitly — declare every baseline assumption used on incomplete data.
  • Segregate inputs — structurally isolate evidence, inferences, and recommendations with markdown. See evidence standards in DIAGNOSTICS.md.
  • Eradicate platitudes — no motivational filler; precise, mathematically sound, operationally clear.
  • Prioritize next actions — end every review with a prioritized 30/60/90-day action list.
  • Produce concrete deliverables — copy-pasteable memos, plans, checklists. See TEMPLATES.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 97 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 31cd813a2d77

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startup-consulting is a skill published in the GitHub repository GalaxyRuler/Galactic-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,729 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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