startup-metrics

startup-metrics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (5,442 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing and interpreting startup performance metrics at different stages. These metrics are measurable indicators such as growth, retention, or revenue that show how a business is progressing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare fundraising and board reports, set goals, compare performance, make product decisions, and diagnose business problems.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid vanity metrics that look positive but do not reveal whether the product or business is improving.

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 prepare fundraising and board reports, set goals, compare performance, make product decisions, and diagnose business problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills/startup-metrics
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 guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill startup-metrics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,442 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 $0.00089 $0.05442
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.02721
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.01088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00544

Measured 9d ago against content hash f0ef34cb8f71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

startup-metrics 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/main.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/startup-metrics/SKILL.md · 771 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 771 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Startup Metrics

Know the metrics that matter at each stage and what investors actually look for. Master the A16Z and YC frameworks for measuring startup progress.

When to Use This Skill

  • Fundraising prep to know which metrics to highlight
  • Board meetings to report on the right KPIs
  • Strategic planning to set goals that matter
  • Product decisions to understand what to optimize
  • Diagnosing problems to find what's broken
  • Benchmarking to know if your metrics are good

Methodology Foundation

Aspect Details
Source A16Z (Andreessen Horowitz), YC (Y Combinator), SaaS metrics best practices
Core Principle "Measure what matters. Vanity metrics feel good but don't predict success. Focus on metrics that indicate real product-market fit and sustainable growth."
Why This Matters Wrong metrics lead to wrong decisions. Right metrics reveal truth about your business—good or bad—before it's too late to course-correct.

What Claude Does vs What You Decide

Claude Does You Decide
Structures analysis frameworks Strategic priorities
Synthesizes market data Competitive positioning
Identifies opportunities Resource allocation
Creates strategic options Final strategy selection
Suggests implementation approaches Execution decisions

What This Skill Does

  1. Identifies key metrics by stage - What to measure when
  2. Calculates core SaaS metrics - ARR, MRR, churn, LTV, CAC
  3. Benchmarks performance - Good vs. great vs. concerning
  4. Diagnoses metric problems - What poor metrics indicate
  5. Prepares investor-ready dashboards - What VCs want to see
  6. Prioritizes metric improvement - What to fix first

How to Use

Get Stage-Appropriate Metrics

I'm a [stage] startup in [industry].
What metrics should I be tracking?
What benchmarks should I aim for?

Calculate Core Metrics

Help me calculate my SaaS metrics:
[Provide: MRR, customer count, churn data, acquisition costs]

Read the full file on GitHub · 771 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 771 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A f0ef34cb8f71

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startup-metrics is a skill published in the GitHub repository guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills (149 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 5,442 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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