oss-strategy

oss-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from int2t05/engineering-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (366 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: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

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 with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/int2t05/engineering-skills/oss-strategy
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 int2t05/engineering-skills --skill oss-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/int2t05/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.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 366 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 $0.00027 $0.00366
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00146
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00037

Measured 15d ago against content hash f62ae0038159, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 15d 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 · 37 lines

What it actually says

Open Source Strategy

When to use

  • Evaluate an open-source business and community strategy.

Not for: oss-polish for repository presentation.

Steps

  1. Identify users, buyer, maintenance capacity and commercialization constraints.

  2. Compare suitable business models against current primary evidence; avoid universal revenue ratios or launch-time claims.

  3. Distinguish open-source licenses from source-available restrictions; verify obligations and leave adoption to the user.

  4. Propose a bounded distribution experiment with success and stop criteria, costs and uncertainties.

Output: Suggested paths, subject to human audit: docs/research/strategy.md when durable strategy is requested.

Verify

  • Recommendation matches real resources; license and commercial claims are sourced and adoption is explicit.

References

  • engineering-principles.md — shared decision boundaries, scope and verification.
  • product-principles.md — product discipline (opportunity = demand × giant blind spot ÷ difficulty, the real competitor is the current workaround).
  • human-audit.md — document consent, readability and human review.
  • references/commercialization-models.md — general pricing (subscription/freemium/usage/per-seat), value-based pricing, AI-product pricing trap, GTM motions (PLG/sales-led/product-led sales), indie-developer revenue ladder.
  • GitHub README/Topics/About beautification: 08-ship/oss-polish.
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. 15d ago Changed · -46 lines · -40 tokens per session f62ae0038159
  2. 21d ago Changed · +3 lines 8b06fb9789d5
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 490990017ed7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oss-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository int2t05/engineering-skills (3 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 366 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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