shape-up

shape-up is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (5,125 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning method organizes work into six-week cycles with a fixed deadline and flexible scope, meaning the time stays constant while the amount of work can change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan features, control scope, support self-directed teams, and organize startup or client projects with fixed timelines.
Why use it?
It replaces endless backlogs and expanding projects with a clear time boundary and room for teams to decide how to deliver the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan features, control scope, support self-directed teams, and organize startup or client projects with fixed timelines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills/shape-up
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill shape-up
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,125 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 $0.00083 $0.05125
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.02563
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00513

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7c807ad2c256, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shape-up 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 9d 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/product/shape-up/SKILL.md · 811 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 811 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shape Up

Escape the build trap and endless backlogs. Use Basecamp's methodology to ship meaningful work in 6-week cycles with fixed time, variable scope.

When to Use This Skill

  • Product planning to replace endless backlogs
  • Feature development with clear time boundaries
  • Team autonomy when you want self-directed teams
  • Scope management when projects tend to balloon
  • Startup development with limited resources
  • Agency/consulting projects with fixed timelines

Methodology Foundation

Aspect Details
Source Ryan Singer - Shape Up (2019), developed at Basecamp
Core Principle "Fixed time, variable scope. Appetite, not estimates. Shape before you build."
Why This Matters Traditional methods either micromanage (waterfall) or leave too much open (agile sprints without direction). Shape Up gives teams direction AND autonomy.

What Claude Does vs What You Decide

Claude Does You Decide
Structures production workflow Final creative direction
Suggests technical approaches Equipment and tool choices
Creates templates and checklists Quality standards
Identifies best practices Brand/voice decisions
Generates script outlines Final script approval

What This Skill Does

  1. Introduces shaping - Defining work at the right level of abstraction
  2. Sets appetites over estimates - How much time is this worth?
  3. Enables cycles - 6-week focused work, 2-week cooldown
  4. Empowers teams - Autonomy within boundaries
  5. Provides betting tables - Principled prioritization
  6. Manages scope dynamically - Must-haves vs. nice-to-haves

How to Use

Shape a Feature Idea

I want to shape this feature idea: [description]
Apply Shape Up methodology to define it at the right level.
Appetite: [2 weeks / 6 weeks]

Plan a Cycle

We have these potential projects for the next cycle:
[List of ideas]
Help me run a betting table to decide what to build.

Read the full file on GitHub · 811 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. 9d ago First seen · 811 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 7c807ad2c256

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shape-up is a skill published in the GitHub repository guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills (149 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 5,125 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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