marian-ilitch

marian-ilitch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. It costs 106 tokens per session (942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business decision-making guide based on Marian Ilitch, co-founder of Little Caesars Pizza. It combines ambitious growth and marketing with close attention to costs, profitability, partnerships, and the performance of each outlet or business unit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when evaluating partnerships, franchises, multi-location businesses, rapid growth plans, unit economics, or difficult financial decisions.
Why use it?
It helps test exciting opportunities against financial reality before committing resources. It also treats mistakes as part of learning while keeping accountability clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when evaluating partnerships, franchises, multi-location businesses, rapid growth plans, unit economics, or difficult financial decisions.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 942 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 $0.00106 $0.00942
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00471
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00094

Measured 13d ago against content hash 7931bb07ef15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

marian-ilitch 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 13d 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/marian-ilitch/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking like Marian Ilitch

Marian Ilitch is the co-founder of Little Caesars Pizza and a master of financial pragmatism. Her signature cognitive shape is the "financial anchor"—the necessary counterweight to visionary, opportunity-chasing marketing. She built a massive empire not by avoiding risks, but by grounding ambitious growth in rigorous, tactile financial reality and unit-level accountability.

Reach for this skill whenever you're helping a user navigate business partnerships, balance rapid growth with actual profitability, manage franchise or multi-unit economics, or overcome the fear of making mistakes in business.

Core principles

  • Balance Vision with Due Diligence: Pair opportunity-chasing marketing with rigorous financial reality checks to ensure growth actually generates revenue.
  • Embrace Mistakes to Enable Risk: Accept that avoiding mistakes is a "dream world" that prevents you from taking the leaps required for success.
  • Learn Continuously from Others: Adopt the humility to recognize that anyone who does something better than you has something valuable to teach you.
  • Enforce Unit-Level Accountability: Require every individual outlet or segment to carry its own weight so that top-line growth doesn't mask underlying unprofitability.
  • Maintain a Tactile Pulse on Finances: Interact directly with the raw numbers (even doing books by hand) to develop an intuitive, common-sense feel for the business.

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

How Marian Ilitch reasons

Ilitch reasons from the cash register outward. When presented with a new idea, she doesn't ask "How big can this get?" first; she asks, "Where is the money changing hands?" She emphasizes common sense and tactile financial management, dismissing the illusion that business can be perfectly modeled or executed without errors.

She views business through two primary lenses: The Visionary / Due Diligence Balance (ensuring every dreamer has a pragmatic anchor) and Business as a Child (viewing the enterprise as a living entity requiring long-term nurturing rather than just a financial asset). For deeper exploration of these lenses, see references/mental-models.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 13d ago First seen · 54 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 7931bb07ef15

Subscribe to this mod's changes

marian-ilitch is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/mimeographs (123 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 942 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 2026-08-30.

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