founder-mode

founder-mode is a skill for Claude Code from JuanMarchetto/agent-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,229 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for turning a product idea into a working, tested release. It covers planning, architecture, test-first development (writing tests before code), end-to-end testing, review, and launch materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate an idea, design and build the product, test it, review the result, and prepare a README, pitch, social posts, Product Hunt draft, and changelog.
Why use it?
It gives a project a structured path from uncertain idea to launch, with review points that can catch weak ideas, missing tests, and design problems.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the founder-mode plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to evaluate an idea, design and build the product, test it, review the result, and prepare a README, pitch, social posts, Product Hunt draft, and changelog.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/juanmarchetto/agent-skills/founder-mode
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 JuanMarchetto/agent-skills --skill founder-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JuanMarchetto/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install founder-mode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

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 founder-mode

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/juanmarchetto/agent-skills/founder-mode/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/juanmarchetto/agent-skills/founder-mode)
Your own site
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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 founder-mode

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,229 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 $0.00096 $0.01229
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00615
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00123

Measured 11d ago against content hash f21517e8a976, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

founder-mode 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/founder-mode/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Founder Mode — End-to-End Product Builder

From idea to launched product. Not just code — a product.

How It Works

/founder-mode "Build a CLI that converts markdown to slides"
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  Phase 0: Bootstrap ─── config.json + state.json + mode detection
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  Phase 1: Idea Evaluation ─── /architect dispatches 6 evaluators
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  ══ GATE 1 ══ Go/No-Go decision ─── [continue|reject|iterate|edit]
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  Phase 2: Architecture ─── system design, components, tech stack
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  Phase 3: TDD Planning ─── decompose into test-first chunks
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  Phase 4: Implementation ─── chunk-with-summary TDD loop
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  ══ GATE 2 ══ Implementation review ─── [continue|iterate|stop|edit]
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  Phase 5: E2E Testing ─── strategy by project type
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  Phase 6: Verification ─── false positives + spec-to-test gap + arch drift
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  ══ GATE 3 ══ Verification review ─── [continue|iterate|stop|edit]
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  Phase 7: Post-Run Analysis ─── lessons + recommendations
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  Phase 8: GTM Draft ─── README + pitch + tweets + PH + CHANGELOG
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  DONE ─── all artifacts in .founder/

Phases

Phase What It Does Agent
0 - Bootstrap Config generation, mode detection, codebase scan (existing projects), lesson loading bootstrapper.md
1 - Evaluation Dispatches 6 parallel evaluators via /architect, extracts acceptance criteria evaluator.md
2 - Architecture Generates system design (new) or reverse-engineers from codebase (existing) architect-gen.md
3 - TDD Planning Decomposes architecture into ordered test-first chunks planner.md
4 - Implementation TDD per chunk with cross-chunk summaries, supports re-entry for fixes implementer.md
5 - E2E Testing Generates and runs E2E tests matched to acceptance criteria e2e-runner.md
6 - Verification False-positive detection, spec-to-test gap analysis, architecture drift check verifier.md
7 - Analysis Post-run pattern analysis, lesson extraction, recommendations analyzer.md
8 - GTM Draft README, pitch, tweet thread, Product Hunt listing, CHANGELOG gtm-drafter.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A f21517e8a976

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founder-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository JuanMarchetto/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,229 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.