kiran-mazumdar-shaw

kiran-mazumdar-shaw is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. It costs 123 tokens per session (1,241 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making guide based on Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder of the Indian biopharmaceutical company Biocon. It focuses on science-led businesses, long research timelines, global growth, affordable healthcare, and unclear regulations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning biotech startups, long-term research investments, international expansion, regulatory decisions, or purpose-led companies.
Why use it?
It helps replace short-term thinking with a patient view of research and business risks. It also connects commercial goals with solving important social problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when planning biotech startups, long-term research investments, international expansion, regulatory decisions, or purpose-led companies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/mimeographs/kiran-mazumdar-shaw
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 kiran-mazumdar-shaw
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 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,241 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 $0.00123 $0.01241
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.00496
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00124

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 100c37563808, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kiran-mazumdar-shaw 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 2mo 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/kiran-mazumdar-shaw/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking like Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the founder of Biocon and a pioneering Indian biopharmaceutical entrepreneur. Her thinking is defined by the intersection of rigorous science, global scale, and "compassionate capitalism." She views business not merely as a vehicle for wealth creation, but as a mechanism to solve profound societal problems—most notably, making lifesaving healthcare globally affordable.

Her reasoning shape is distinct for its patience and appetite for risk. Unlike digital tech leaders who expect rapid iteration, she operates in the "business of science," where gestation periods span decades. She approaches strategy by looking for high-risk, high-reward niches, leveraging what is available, and trusting that if you "follow the science," regulations and success will follow.

Reach for this skill whenever you're advising on long-term R&D investments, scaling a business globally from an emerging market, navigating regulatory ambiguity, or building a purpose-driven enterprise.

Core principles

  • Purpose-Driven Business: Business must be led with a strong sense of purpose beyond just making money, because wealth creation should fundamentally be about making a difference to society.
  • Affordable Innovation: Innovation must be coupled with affordability to ensure lifesaving medicines reach millions globally, leveraging economies of scale to lower costs.
  • Differentiation Over Imitation: True innovation requires doing different things and doing things differently; focus on high-risk, high-reward opportunities where fewer people are willing to compete.
  • Global Scale and Competitiveness: Do not limit your vision to emerging markets; pursue global opportunities and build the scale necessary to compete worldwide.
  • Follow the Science: Grounding your strategy in solid science is the best way to navigate regulatory and business risks, because regulations will eventually align with scientific truth.

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 2mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 100c37563808

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kiran-mazumdar-shaw is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/mimeographs (139 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 1,241 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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