oss-strategy

oss-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from int2t05/engineering-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding how an open-source project should grow and make money. Open source means the code is available for others to inspect, use, and often modify; open core keeps a free core while selling additional features or services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare open core, managed services, and support-led models, and to plan community building, launch promotion, and later commercialisation.
Why use it?
It helps connect community growth with a realistic business model instead of treating openness and revenue as unrelated decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the engineering-skills plugin — 47 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare open core, managed services, and support-led models, and to plan community building, launch promotion, and later commercialisation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add int2t05/engineering-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install engineering-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,102 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 $0.00067 $0.01102
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00551
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00110

Measured 8d ago against content hash 490990017ed7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oss-strategy 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 8d 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/01-product/oss-strategy/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Open Source Strategy

Guide open source as a commercialization path: build community and trust first, monetize later. Many products use open source for early growth (Supabase, Plausible, Cal.com, Llama, Qwen, Dify) and later commercialize via managed services or open core.

Core insight: Brand is the moat when code is commoditized. Developers won't pay directly; they become your marketing force through word-of-mouth, content, and recommendations.

When to use

  • User wants open source strategy, OSS commercialization, or open core / COSS business model.
  • Deciding between open core, managed service, or support-first monetization.
  • Planning open source growth: community building, stars strategy, DevHunt launch.
  • User says "open source strategy", "open source to paid", "open source business model", "OSS 策略", "DevHunt", "开源策略", or "开源商业模式".

Not for: GitHub README/topics/About beautification — that's oss-polish.

Steps

  1. Choose the business model. Match the model to the product and audience:

    Model Description Examples
    Open Core Core free; enterprise features (SSO, audit, multi-tenancy) paid GitLab, Elastic, Grafana
    Managed Services (SaaS) Self-host free; cloud/hosted paid MongoDB Atlas, Confluent, Dify
    Support-First Free software; enterprise support subscriptions Red Hat
    Free + Paid Convenience 70–80% revenue from cloud; self-host free Most COSS companies

    Enterprise users buy risk mitigation — SLAs, indemnification, security patches, support — not just code. For general pricing models, value-based pricing, GTM motions, and the indie-developer revenue ladder beyond OSS — load references/commercialization-models.md.

  2. Pick the license. This determines who can fork and whether cloud giants can exploit your work without contributing:

    License Use Trade-off
    MIT, Apache 2.0 Permissive; max adoption Cloud giants can fork without contributing
    AGPL Prevent cloud fork without contribution May reduce adoption
    BSL/SSPL Source-available; commercial restrictions Elastic, HashiCorp, Redis Labs shifted to this

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 8d ago First seen · 80 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 490990017ed7

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oss-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository int2t05/engineering-skills (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,102 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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