obviously-awesome

obviously-awesome is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from getagentseal/founder-playbook. It costs 90 tokens per session (3,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A ten-step method for deciding how a business product should be described and compared in the market. It is designed for business-to-business technology products.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine competitors and alternatives, clarify what makes a product different, and improve its message for a specific customer group.
Why use it?
It helps when potential customers misunderstand the product, compare it with unsuitable alternatives, take too long to decide, or focus heavily on price.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

not rated 556repo +17 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 90 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to examine competitors and alternatives, clarify what makes a product different, and improve its message for a specific customer group.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/getagentseal/founder-playbook/obviously-awesome
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 getagentseal/founder-playbook --skill obviously-awesome
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getagentseal/founder-playbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,167 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 26 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 26 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00090 $0.03167
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.01584
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00633
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00317

Measured 10d ago against content hash a6191b2fbb6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obviously-awesome 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.

obviously-awesome/SKILL.md · 270 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Note: This skill is independent analysis and commentary, not a reproduction of the original text. It synthesizes the book's core ideas with modern startup practice, surfaces where frameworks are outdated or incomplete, and integrates perspectives from adjacent disciplines. For the full argument and context, read the original book.

Obviously Awesome

"Positioning is the act of deliberately defining how you are the best at something that a defined market cares a lot about." - April Dunford (2019)

When to Use

Investigate positioning when ANY of these is true:

Sign What It Looks Like
Confused prospects Compare you to products you're nothing like
Long sales cycles Reps spend most calls explaining what you are
High churn Customers who buy don't get the expected value
Price pressure Can't command premium despite real differentiation

Dunford does not give a strict numerical threshold - one strong sign is enough to warrant a positioning audit.

The Core Insight

You probably have a positioning problem, not a marketing problem.

When prospects don't understand your product, it's not because you haven't said it loud enough. It's because the CONTEXT they're using to evaluate you is wrong.

Joshua Bell experiment: World-class violinist played 45 min in a DC subway in 2007. 1,070 people walked past. Earned $32.17. Two days earlier: sold-out Boston Symphony Hall at $100/seat. Same person, same skill. Different context = different perceived value.

Cake → Muffin: Sometimes the same product needs a different category. Almost no physical difference between cake and muffin. Big contextual difference.

The 5+1 Components

Positioning is built from 5 components, plus 1 optional layer:

Component Question Example
1. Competitive Alternatives What would they use without you? Excel, hire intern, do nothing
2. Unique Attributes What do you have that alternatives don't? Features, capabilities, partnerships
3. Value What can they DO because of those attributes? Save time, increase revenue (with proof)
4. Target Market Characteristics Who cares MOST? Best-fit customer profile
5. Market Category What context makes your value obvious? "CRM for X"
+1. Relevant Trends What in the world makes you matter MORE NOW? AI, remote work

Read the full file on GitHub · 270 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 270 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A a6191b2fbb6e

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obviously-awesome is a skill published in the GitHub repository getagentseal/founder-playbook (556 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 3,167 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 2026-08-30.

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