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.
npx skills add impactbrussels/FounderOS --skill first-hiregit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/impactbrussels/FounderOSWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/impactbrussels/founderos/first-hire)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/impactbrussels/founderos/first-hire"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/impactbrussels/founderos/first-hire.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00136 | $0.01803 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00068 | $0.00901 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00027 | $0.00361 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00180 |
Grade A, and why
first-hire 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
First Hire
Employment law, classification rules, and payroll/tax obligations vary by jurisdiction and change over time. This skill helps you decide who to hire and how to hire them well - it is not legal, tax, or HR advice. Whether someone is legally an employee or a contractor, and what paperwork and obligations follow, depends on local law. Confirm the specifics with a qualified local employment lawyer or accountant before you hire (see
legal-and-incorporation).
Your first hires set the company's bar, culture, and burn rate at once - and early hiring mistakes are slow and expensive to fix, because a wrong hire in a five-person company is 20% of it. First-timers tend to hire too early, hire for the wrong role, hire a version of themselves, and "interview" on gut feel - then wonder why it didn't work. This skill makes the first hire deliberate: hire only when it's the right move, for the one role that unblocks the biggest constraint, against a written scorecard, through a structured process - and onboard so they actually succeed.
The method
Built on the Founder OS scaffold (High tier). Full decision tree, scorecard, question bank, and checklists in references/first-hires.md.
Step 1 - Decide if you should hire at all (ask before assuming)
A hire is the most expensive, least reversible way to add capacity - so make it the last resort, not the reflex. Walk the decision tree (in the reference): can this be automated, a tool/process, outsourced to a contractor or agency, dropped entirely, or is it genuinely not yet time? Hire only when there's durable, full-time, core work that none of those solve. Hiring to feel busy or less overwhelmed is the classic first-timer trap.
Step 2 - Define the ONE role that unblocks the biggest constraint (batch then decide)
Don't hire for a wish-list of pains. Find your single biggest constraint - the bottleneck
that, if cleared, unlocks the most progress toward your [GOAL] - and define the one role
that clears it. Pick the highest-leverage single hire, not three half-roles. Be honest about
whether the constraint is really work you should still be doing yourself.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 118 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A c99fd5ebefad
first-hire is a skill published in the GitHub repository impactbrussels/FounderOS (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 1,803 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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