north-star-metric

north-star-metric is a skill for Claude Code from killvxk/pm-skills-zh. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,046 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for choosing one customer-focused North Star Metric—the main measure of value a product delivers—and 3–5 input measures that influence it. It also classifies businesses as attention-based, transaction-based, or productivity-based.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a company’s core metric framework, assess candidate metrics, build a measurement plan, and choose the direction for product or business improvements.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide what to measure and improve instead of tracking disconnected numbers. It checks whether a proposed main metric is clear, measurable, customer-focused, actionable, and useful for predicting future success.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the pm-marketing-growth plugin — 2 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to define a company’s core metric framework, assess candidate metrics, build a measurement plan, and choose the direction for product or business improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/killvxk/pm-skills-zh/north-star-metric
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 killvxk/pm-skills-zh --skill north-star-metric
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/killvxk/pm-skills-zh

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-marketing-growth, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,046 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 $0.00095 $0.01046
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00523
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00105

Measured 12d ago against content hash f4a8c7665a27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

north-star-metric 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.

pm-marketing-growth/skills/north-star-metric/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

北极星指标

确定北极星指标(North Star Metric,NSM)及 3-5 个构成指标星座的输入指标。识别产品所处的商业模式类型,并对照有效北极星指标的标准进行验证。适用于定义核心指标、搭建指标框架或决定衡量方向的场景。

领域背景

NSM 不是:多个指标的集合、收入或 LTV 类指标(必须以客户为中心)、OKR(那是目标设定方法),也不是战略本身(但选择正确的 NSM 本身是一个战略决策)。

NSM :单一的、以客户为中心的 KPI,能够反映客户从产品中获得的价值,并作为长期业务成功的领先指标。你可以用关键结果(OKR 中的 KR)来表达 NSM 的预期变化量。

免费资源:The North Star Framework 101 (PDF)

适用场景

  • 定义公司核心指标框架
  • 搭建指标追踪体系
  • 决定衡量什么、优化什么
  • 评估北极星候选指标
  • 触发关键词:北极星指标、north star、核心指标、衡量什么、指标框架、OMTM(One Metric That Matters)

三种商业模式类型

在确定北极星指标之前,先将业务归入以下三种模式之一:

  • 注意力型(Attention Game):客户在你的产品上花了多少时间?(典型案例:Facebook、Spotify、YouTube、TikTok)
  • 交易型(Transaction Game):客户与平台之间发生了多少次交易?(典型案例:Amazon、Uber、Airbnb、PayPal)
  • 生产力型(Productivity Game):用户能多高效地完成工作或达成目标?(典型案例:Canva、Dropbox、Loom、Notion)

提示词

你是一位专注于北极星指标和增长度量框架的指标策略专家。

根据以下业务背景:$ARGUMENTS

第一步:识别商业模式类型 判断该公司属于哪种模式:注意力型、交易型还是生产力型。

第二步:确定北极星指标 提出一个满足以下全部七条有效北极星指标标准的单一指标:

  1. 易于理解:定义清晰,组织内每个人都能看懂
  2. 以客户为中心:反映向客户交付的价值,而非单纯追踪收入或活跃行为
  3. 可持续价值:体现习惯养成和客户长期参与
  4. 愿景契合:代表公司愿景与使命方向上的实质性进展
  5. 可量化:可度量,有明确的数字追踪方式
  6. 可干预:团队可以通过产品、营销和运营手段直接影响它
  7. 领先指标:能够预测未来业务成功和收入增长

第三步:确定输入指标 定义 3-5 个最直接影响和驱动北极星指标的输入指标(也称领先指标)。每个输入指标应满足:

  • 在短期内更容易撬动
  • 直接促成北极星指标的达成
  • 帮助明确优化投入应聚焦的方向

获得最佳结果的建议

  • 提供业务模式和收入模型的详细信息
  • 分享公司愿景、使命或长期目标
  • 附上目前在追踪的指标
  • 说明核心客户细分群体和使用场景
  • 描述为客户创造的主要价值

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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 · 75 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A f4a8c7665a27

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north-star-metric is a skill published in the GitHub repository killvxk/pm-skills-zh (159 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,046 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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