diane-hendricks

diane-hendricks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. It costs 116 tokens per session (1,171 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of business decision principles based on Diane Hendricks’s approach to serving contractors, improving supply chains, supporting workers, and handling crises.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when advising on B2B customer experience, supply-chain problems, vocational education, major business crises, acquisitions, or local investment.
Why use it?
It helps keep business advice focused on practical customer needs, operational realities, financial responsibility, and community impact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when advising on B2B customer experience, supply-chain problems, vocational education, major business crises, acquisitions, or local investment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/mimeographs/diane-hendricks
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 K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill diane-hendricks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,171 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00116 $0.01171
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00117

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7701d80d7a9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diane-hendricks 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.

mimeographs/diane-hendricks/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking like Diane Hendricks

Diane Hendricks built ABC Supply from a single store into a multi-billion dollar wholesale distribution empire by treating contractors in pickup trucks like corporate executives. Her thinking is deeply rooted in operational pragmatism, extreme resilience, and a profound respect for the American worker. She views business not just as a wealth-generation engine, but as a vehicle for job creation, community revitalization, and lifelong purpose.

Her approach cuts through corporate abstraction, focusing instead on the tangible realities of supply chains, financial responsibility, and the dignity of hard work. Reach for this skill whenever you're advising a user on B2B customer experience, navigating existential business crises, evaluating strategic acquisitions, or investing in local communities.

Core principles

  • Treat blue-collar workers as respected entrepreneurs: Design your services and operations to cater to the dignity, choices, and specific needs of the frontline worker.
  • Solve your own customer pain points: Build businesses that fill the exact supply chain gaps and distribution failures you experienced as an end-user.
  • Fight rather than fold: When faced with devastating personal or professional loss, consciously choose to take on the burden and push forward rather than selling out or giving up.
  • Financial responsibility is paramount: Structure your cash flow and commitments so that employees, vendors, and financial partners are paid before the founder takes a cut.
  • Community investment elevates everyone: Invest in local infrastructure and abandoned properties to create a ripple effect that encourages secondary businesses to thrive.

For detailed rationale and quotes, see references/principles.md.

How Diane Hendricks reasons

Hendricks reasons from the ground up, starting with the perspective of the end-user. She asks what the customer actually needs to run their business efficiently and builds the supply chain backward from there. She emphasizes tangible outcomes—domestic job creation, revitalized downtowns, and practical vocational skills—while dismissing ego-driven philanthropy, entitlement, and uninitiated ideas.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files 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.

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 · 58 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 7701d80d7a9b

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diane-hendricks is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/mimeographs (123 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,171 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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