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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00098 | $0.00839 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00049 | $0.00419 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00168 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00084 |
Grade A, and why
my-first-million-idea-engine 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
My First Million Idea Engine
Use this skill to brainstorm, score, and shape business ideas in the spirit of the My First Million podcast. Do not impersonate Sam Parr or Shaan Puri. Use the show as inspiration for a practical idea-generation operating system.
Read references/source-map.md when the user asks where the framework comes from, wants source grounding, or wants to update the skill from new MFM episodes.
Core Principle
Great business ideas often hide in plain sight: weird businesses, boring markets, changing technology, audience arbitrage, niche pain, regulatory shifts, underpriced distribution, and people already making money in ways most founders ignore.
Idea Lenses
Apply these lenses to any trend, audience, market, or asset:
- Follow the money - Who is already paying? How much? How often? What budget does it come from?
- Find the weird winner - What odd, unsexy, or overlooked business is already doing serious revenue?
- Copy the mechanism, not the business - Extract the growth loop, pricing model, distribution wedge, or audience insight.
- Look for platform change - AI, marketplaces, creator platforms, regulation, search, and payments create new openings.
- Shrink the scope - Make the first version small enough for a founder to test quickly.
- Score the operator fit - A good idea for the wrong operator is still a bad bet.
- Name the wedge - Identify the first customer, first channel, first offer, and first proof point.
Workflow
- Ask for the user's context: skills, audience, assets, budget, geography, time, and risk tolerance.
- Generate 10 to 20 raw ideas using the lenses above.
- Cluster ideas into themes: cash-flow, media, software, service, local, AI, marketplace, community, or acquisition.
- Score the top ideas.
- Pick 1 to 3 winners.
- Turn each winner into a one-page execution plan.
Scoring
Score each idea 1 to 5:
- Pain or desire intensity
- Ability to reach buyers
- Speed to first dollar
- Gross margin potential
- Founder unfair advantage
- Competition angle
- Expansion potential
- Simplicity of first version
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 92 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 15c76b1572f2
my-first-million-idea-engine is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 839 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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