apply-full-lifecycle-investing

apply-full-lifecycle-investing is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,510 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An investment approach that lets a venture capital firm support a company from its early funding rounds through growth, pre-IPO funding and later stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure an investment mandate covering the full company lifecycle rather than just one funding stage.
Why use it?
It preserves investor continuity as a company grows, so founders do not need to rebuild relationships and explain the business again at every stage.

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 structure an investment mandate covering the full company lifecycle rather than just one funding stage.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-full-lifecycle-investing
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 jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-full-lifecycle-investing
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.

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.

agentmods badge for apply-full-lifecycle-investing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-full-lifecycle-investing/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-full-lifecycle-investing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-full-lifecycle-investing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-full-lifecycle-investing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for apply-full-lifecycle-investing

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-full-lifecycle-investing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-full-lifecycle-investing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,510 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 $0.00078 $0.01510
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00755
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00151

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5872e3927a9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-full-lifecycle-investing 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 11d 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-full-lifecycle-investing/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 Full-Lifecycle Investing

Build the capability to invest in a portfolio company across its entire lifecycle — from seed and early-stage rounds through growth, pre-IPO, and beyond — rather than confining the firm's mandate to a single investment stage. This allows the strongest companies to be backed continuously by the same firm, without forcing a founder to rebuild investor relationships and re-pitch the business fundamentals at every new financing round.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Neil Shen (沈南鹏), founder of Sequoia Capital China (now HongShan), built the firm's investment mandate specifically to span the full company lifecycle rather than a single stage — a structural choice documented across Sequoia China's public investment approach and reflected in the firm's continued participation in portfolio companies from seed rounds through their growth and pre-IPO financing. Impact: A single-stage-only VC firm loses continuity with its best portfolio companies once they outgrow that stage, forcing the founder to find and re-establish trust with an entirely new set of investors at each subsequent round — a costly, distracting process during a company's highest-growth period. A full-lifecycle firm instead maintains the accumulated relationship, institutional knowledge of the business, and trust built in earlier rounds, allowing it to continue supporting and investing in the company without this repeated re-establishment cost. Why best: Confining a firm to one stage (e.g., seed-only, or growth-only) optimizes for a specific risk/return profile at that stage but forces a structural handoff of the firm's most valuable, best-performing companies to new investors exactly when the accumulated relationship and business knowledge would be most useful to both the founder and the firm's own ability to keep participating in the company's success — a full-lifecycle mandate specifically avoids this forced handoff.

Sources: Documented account of Neil Shen and Sequoia Capital China/HongShan's full-lifecycle investment approach

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. 11d ago First seen · 68 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 5872e3927a9e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apply-full-lifecycle-investing is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,510 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

azure-cost-management-api

In PowerShell, inline JSON for Cost Management API causes "Unsupported Media Type" errors.

fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall · 23 tokens

stock-analysis-lead

Orchestrate a US-stock investment analysis — classify sector archetype, fetch SEC filings, dispatch a tiered fan-out of six vertical equity-research agents (business model, earnings quality, balance sheet, management, industry, peer comparison) over a validated JSON findings contract, then synthesize a buy/hold/sell…

johnqtcg/awesome-skills · 229 tokens

stock-earnings-quality-review

Review a US-listed company's earnings quality, cash-flow integrity, and operating leverage for an equity-research workup. Covers operating cash flow vs net income drift, free cash flow trajectory, capex character (maintenance vs expansion), equity issuance / shareholder-return yield, revenue-quality signals…

johnqtcg/awesome-skills · 147 tokens

stock-industry-review

Review a US-listed company's industry position and competitive moat for an equity-research workup. Covers Porter Five Forces scan, market-share trend (absolute and relative to industry growth), TAM size and trajectory, unit economics where disclosed (LTV/CAC, unit gross margin), moat classification (network / brand /…

johnqtcg/awesome-skills · 147 tokens

stock-management-review

Review a US-listed company's management quality and capital-allocation track record for an equity-research workup. Covers 5-year capital-allocation history (buybacks vs dividends vs M&A vs capex vs debt), buyback timing, M&A return-on-investment, guidance-vs-actuals track record, comp-structure alignment, insider…

johnqtcg/awesome-skills · 126 tokens

stock-peer-comparison-review

Independently benchmark a US-listed target equity against 2-4 closest peers on a fixed 12-item ratio panel — growth rates, profitability, capital intensity, balance sheet leverage, capital returns, and valuation multiples. Provides cross-validation for moat and market-share claims made by the business and industry…

johnqtcg/awesome-skills · 127 tokens