north-star-metric-auditor

north-star-metric-auditor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KirKruglov/claude-skills-kit. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,708 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for evaluating a company’s North Star Metric—the main measure used to track the value customers receive—and suggesting alternatives. It assesses the metric against four criteria and considers the business model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during strategy reviews to assess an existing North Star Metric and compare replacement options for growth, retention, or monetisation.
Why use it?
It helps reveal when a headline metric does not reflect customer value or the way the business makes money.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it during strategy reviews to assess an existing North Star Metric and compare replacement options for growth, retention, or monetisation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kirkruglov/claude-skills-kit/north-star-metric-auditor
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 KirKruglov/claude-skills-kit --skill north-star-metric-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KirKruglov/claude-skills-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,708 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 $0.00078 $0.01708
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00854
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00171

Measured 12d ago against content hash e9ff9c188957, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

north-star-metric-auditor 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.

skills/metrics-and-exec-narratives/north-star-metric-auditor/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

North Star Metric Auditor

This skill audits a North Star Metric (NSM) against 4 standard criteria and proposes 2–3 alternative candidates calibrated to the stated business model.

Input:

  • Current NSM (metric name; optionally, how it is measured)
  • Business model description (1–3 sentences: product type, revenue model, core user value)
  • Optional: strategic focus area (growth / retention / monetisation)

Output:

  • Markdown audit report: criteria table with 4 ratings, overall verdict (Strong / Acceptable / Weak), 2–3 alternatives with trade-offs, and a single actionable recommendation

Language Detection

Detect the user's language from their message:

  • If Russian (or contains Cyrillic): respond in Russian
  • If English (or other Latin-script language): respond in English
  • If ambiguous: respond in the language of the trigger phrase used

Instructions

Step 1: Parse Input

  1. Extract the NSM name and measurement definition (if provided).
    • If no NSM provided: stop and ask for it in the user's language (per Language Detection). EN: "Please share your current North Star Metric. Example: 'weekly active users'." RU: «Укажи свою текущую North Star Metric. Например: „количество еженедельно активных пользователей“.»
  2. Extract the business model description.
    • If missing: ask one focused question before continuing to Step 4 (alternatives): "What is your product type and how do you earn revenue?"
  3. Extract optional strategic focus if stated (growth / retention / monetisation).

Step 2: Audit Against 4 Criteria

Evaluate the NSM against each criterion. For each, assign a rating (Strong, Acceptable, or Weak) and write 1–2 sentences of concrete justification tied to the stated NSM and business model.

  1. Customer Value: Does the metric capture the moment users receive the product's core value? A strong NSM rises when users succeed, not just when they open the app.
  2. Revenue Predictability: Does growth in this metric reliably predict long-term revenue growth or retention? Lagging financial output metrics score Weak here.
  3. Team Actionability: Can the product team directly influence this metric through product decisions? Metrics driven primarily by external factors (seasonality, macro) score lower.
  4. Leading Indicator: Is this an early signal of future success rather than a trailing summary of past results? Revenue and profit are classic lagging metrics and score Weak.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 138 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A e9ff9c188957

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north-star-metric-auditor is a skill published in the GitHub repository KirKruglov/claude-skills-kit (18 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,708 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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