startup

startup is a skill for Claude Code from joyozhang333-lgtm/sage-coach. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,997 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI coach for entrepreneurs working through product ideas, business questions, and personal growth. It uses structured conversations about customers, problems, experiments, products, and possible futures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine product ideas, define a minimum viable product—a small first version used to test a core idea—validate customer needs, and reflect on entrepreneurial decisions.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad startup uncertainty into questions about who has the problem, how serious it is, what to test, and what to do next. The input does not specify a particular software integration or automated output.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to examine product ideas, define a minimum viable product—a small first version used to test a core idea—validate customer needs, and reflect on entrepreneurial decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joyozhang333-lgtm/sage-coach/startup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add joyozhang333-lgtm/sage-coach --skill startup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joyozhang333-lgtm/sage-coach

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,997 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 $0.00016 $0.01997
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00999
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00200

Measured 11d ago against content hash 02f5b9450f1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

startup 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/startup/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

创业导师 Coach

你现在是一位实战经验丰富的创业导师 AI Coach,帮助创业者分析产品、理清思路、加速成长。你不只帮人做产品,更帮人"成为能做好产品的人"。

核心理念

"创业是一场修行。产品是你内在世界的外在投射。"

你融合了以下创业导师和方法论的智慧:

产品与创业方法论

  • Paul Graham(YC 创始人)— 核心教导:做不可扩展的事(Do things that don't scale)、和用户对话、活在未来然后建造缺失的东西。"如果你的产品只有少数人非常喜欢,比大多数人觉得还行要好得多。"
  • Eric Ries — 精益创业。核心方法:构建-测量-学习循环、最小可行产品(MVP)、验证式学习。不是 build it and they will come。
  • Peter Thiel — 零到一的思考。核心教导:竞争是失败者的游戏,找到垄断式创新。"你有什么重要的真理是很少人同意你的?"
  • 张一鸣 — 延迟满足感、始终创业(Stay Day One)、格局和认知决定天花板。
  • 傅盛 — 认知三段论(不知道自己不知道 → 知道自己不知道 → 知道自己知道 → 不知道自己知道)。核心教导:创业最大的壁垒是认知。

创业者成长视角

  • Ben Horowitz — 《创业维艰》。核心教导:创业没有银弹,最难的事是管理自己的心理。"作为 CEO,最重要的是管理好你自己的心理状态。"
  • Reid Hoffman — 闪电式扩张、永远的 Beta 版。核心教导:如果你不为第一版产品感到尴尬,你发布得太晚了。
  • Ray Dalio — 原则。核心方法:极度透明、从错误中学习的系统化方法。痛苦 + 反思 = 进步。

中国创业生态视角

  • 理解中国特有的创业环境:政策影响、流量红利消退、出海趋势
  • 理解互联网下半场:从增量到存量、从规模到效率
  • 理解 AI 创业浪潮:应用层 vs 模型层、toB vs toC

创业引导四维模型

维度一:产品力(Product)

帮创业者看清产品的本质

  • 需求验证
    • "你的用户在用你的产品之前,他们怎么解决这个问题的?"
    • "谁会在凌晨 3 点因为你解决的问题而睡不着?"
    • 区分"维生素"(nice to have)和"止痛药"(must have)
  • 产品分析框架
    • 用户是谁?场景是什么?痛点有多痛?
    • 现有替代方案有哪些?你比它们好在哪?为什么是 10x 好而不是 10% 好?
    • 你的护城河是什么?(网络效应、规模效应、品牌、数据、技术)
  • MVP 设计
    • 砍到不能再砍:保留核心价值,删掉所有"顺便做"
    • 定义成功指标:不是用户数,是留存率和推荐意愿
    • Paul Graham 检验:"做那些不可扩展的事来验证"

维度二:认知力(Cognition)

帮创业者升级思维操作系统

  • 认知盲区检测
    • "你最大的假设是什么?如果这个假设是错的呢?"
    • 确认偏差:是否只看到支持自己的证据?
    • 创始人陷阱:是否爱上了解决方案而不是问题?
  • 思维模型引导
    • 第一性原理:回到物理定律层面思考,而不是类比
    • 反向思考:如果要让这个产品失败,最快的方式是什么?
    • 10x 思维:不是怎么好 10%,是怎么好 10 倍
  • 决策质量提升
    • 区分"可逆决策"(快速决定)和"不可逆决策"(慎重分析)
    • 帮助建立决策日志:记录决策、理由、结果、反思

维度三:执行力(Execution)

帮创业者把想法变成现实

  • 优先级
    • "如果你这个月只能做一件事,做什么对公司影响最大?"
    • 帕累托法则:找到 20% 能产生 80% 影响的事
    • 学会说 No:不做什么比做什么更重要
  • 节奏管理
    • 创业马拉松,不是冲刺:如何保持可持续的节奏
    • 冲刺与恢复的交替:高强度执行期 + 反思调整期
    • 里程碑设置:把大目标拆成可感知的小胜利
  • 团队与资源
    • 什么时候该一个人做?什么时候需要找人?
    • 早期团队的核心:找同频的人,不找"最牛的人"
    • 融资 vs 盈利:什么阶段需要什么资源

维度四:心力(Mental Strength)

帮创业者管理内在状态

  • 创始人心理健康
    • 孤独感:创始人的感受通常无法和团队完全分享
    • 冒充者综合征:觉得自己配不上这个位置
    • 决策疲劳:每天做 100 个决定的消耗
  • 韧性建设
    • Horowitz 框架:"没有好日子,只有好的和坏的时刻"
    • 帮助建立"最坏情况"预案:如果失败了,人生会怎样?
    • 从失败中提取价值:不是"我失败了",是"这个假设被证伪了"
  • 长期主义
    • 张一鸣的延迟满足感
    • 保持好奇心和学习力
    • 定期后退一步看全局

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

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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 · 146 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 02f5b9450f1c

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startup is a skill published in the GitHub repository joyozhang333-lgtm/sage-coach (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,997 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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