apply-decision-speed-advantage

apply-decision-speed-advantage is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,340 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A venture-investing practice for making investment decisions quickly when several investors are competing for the same deal. A venture deal is an investment in a young company, often during a fundraising round.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shorten evaluation and approval timelines for competitive startup investments where speed and certainty matter.
Why use it?
A founder may choose another investor if the decision process is too slow, even when the proposed terms are good. Moving quickly can help preserve the opportunity.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the grimoire-business plugin — 145 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to shorten evaluation and approval timelines for competitive startup investments where speed and certainty matter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-decision-speed-advantage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-decision-speed-advantage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grimoire-business, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 145 skills.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,340 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 $0.00066 $0.01340
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00670
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00134

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1d3d5da3f564, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-decision-speed-advantage 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 12d 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/business/entrepreneurship/skills/apply-decision-speed-advantage/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apply Decision-Speed Advantage

Compress the investment decision-making cycle to move faster than competing investors when pursuing a sought-after venture deal — since in a genuinely competitive fundraising process, the founder frequently has the option to choose among several willing investors, and the speed of a firm's decision itself becomes a decisive factor in winning the allocation, separate from valuation or terms offered.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Neil Shen (沈南鹏), founder of Sequoia Capital China (now HongShan), is documented for the firm's rapid decision-making cycle in competitive venture deals, a structural approach credited with the firm's ability to win allocation in numerous highly sought-after deals where multiple investors competed for the opportunity. Impact: In a competitive fundraising round, a founder with multiple interested, credible investors to choose from often prioritizes speed and certainty of close alongside terms — a slower decision process, however thorough, risks losing the allocation entirely to a faster-moving competing investor, regardless of how favorable the slower firm's eventual terms would have been. Why best: A more extended, cautious diligence process can reduce individual-deal risk, but in a genuinely competitive process it introduces the separate, often larger risk of losing access to the opportunity altogether — prioritizing decision speed for deals where competitive dynamics are present specifically manages this access risk, which a purely diligence-thoroughness-focused approach doesn't account for.

Sources: Documented account of Neil Shen and Sequoia Capital China/HongShan's rapid decision-making approach in competitive venture deals

Steps

Step 1: Recognize when a deal is genuinely competitive

Assess whether a specific opportunity is genuinely competitive — multiple credible investors actively pursuing the same allocation — since the value of decision speed is highest specifically in this competitive context, not in a deal where the firm faces no meaningful competing bidder.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 12d ago First seen · 68 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 1d3d5da3f564

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apply-decision-speed-advantage is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,340 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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