metrics

metrics is a skill for Claude Code from kazdenc/builder-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for choosing numbers that show whether a product or feature is succeeding. It distinguishes early behavior signals from later business results and includes guidance for collecting the data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define KPIs, choose a primary success measure, identify leading and lagging indicators, and plan product instrumentation.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from tracking unfocused or hard-to-verify numbers. It starts with the desired user and business outcome, then selects one primary metric that the team can act on and audit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to define KPIs, choose a primary success measure, identify leading and lagging indicators, and plan product instrumentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/metrics
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 kazdenc/builder-skills --skill metrics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kazdenc/builder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,591 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 $0.00065 $0.01591
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00796
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00159

Measured 9d ago against content hash c3dd72dcfd35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

metrics 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 9d 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.

.claude/skills/product/launch/metrics/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Define what success looks like in numbers. Work through each step — don't jump to a list of metrics without grounding them in the goal first.

Step 1: Identify the Goal

Before picking metrics, answer:

  • What job does this feature serve? What progress is the user trying to make? (Reference the jtbd skill if available.)
  • What outcome matters to the business? Revenue, retention, efficiency, expansion — pick one.
  • What behavior change are you expecting? Users should do more of X, less of Y, start doing Z.

If you can't state the goal in one sentence, the metrics will be unfocused. Push for clarity.

Step 2: Define a Primary Metric

Pick the ONE number that best represents success. This is the metric the team checks every morning.

How to choose — the 3 A's:

Test Question Bad example Good example
Actionable Can the team change this number with their work? Total registered users (too broad) Weekly active users of this feature
Accessible Can everyone on the team understand and check it? Custom composite score % of users who complete core action
Auditable Can you verify the data is correct? Self-reported satisfaction Event-tracked completion rate

Common primary metrics by goal:

Goal Primary metric
Adoption % of eligible users who use the feature in first 7 days
Engagement Weekly active usage (sessions, actions, or time)
Retention % still using after 30 days
Efficiency Time to complete task (before vs. after)
Revenue Conversion rate or revenue per user
Quality Error rate or task success rate

State it precisely: "% of users who create at least one invoice within 7 days of first seeing the feature" — not "adoption."

Step 3: Define Supporting Metrics

Leading indicators

Predict future success. Move before the primary metric does. Use these to course-correct early.

Example What it predicts
Activation rate (completed setup) Future retention
Feature discovery rate (saw the entry point) Future adoption
Time to first value Future engagement
Onboarding completion Future active usage

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 9d ago First seen · 158 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A c3dd72dcfd35

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metrics is a skill published in the GitHub repository kazdenc/builder-skills (45 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,591 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.