co-founder-dynamics

co-founder-dynamics is a skill for Claude Code from LeadMagic/gtm-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (4,215 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to forming and managing a founding partnership, including finding a co-founder, dividing ownership, setting vesting rules, making agreements, and resolving conflict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess potential co-founders, discuss equity splits, create working agreements, test the partnership, handle conflict, and plan a co-founder departure.
Why use it?
It helps founders address expectations and ownership before disagreements damage the company or make it difficult for someone to leave.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the gtm-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess potential co-founders, discuss equity splits, create working agreements, test the partnership, handle conflict, and plan a co-founder departure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/co-founder-dynamics
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 LeadMagic/gtm-skills --skill co-founder-dynamics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeadMagic/gtm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gtm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,215 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 $0.00091 $0.04215
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02107
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00843
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00421

Measured 5d ago against content hash a856923b610f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

co-founder-dynamics 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-output.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/founder-led/co-founder-dynamics/SKILL.md · 410 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Co-Founder Dynamics

Overview

The co-founder relationship is the #1 predictor of startup success or failure — ahead of product, market, or funding. YC data shows that co-founder conflict is the leading cause of early-stage startup death. The mistake: choosing a co-founder based on friendship or availability instead of complementary skills, aligned values, and tested working relationships. This skill covers finding co-founders, structuring equity, drafting agreements, building trust, and navigating the hard conversations before they become fatal.

When to Use

Trigger phrases: "find a co-founder", "co-founder equity split", "co-founder agreement", "technical co-founder", "business co-founder", "co-founder dynamics", "should I have a co-founder", "solo vs co-founder", "co-founder breakup", "vesting schedule for founders", "founder prenup"

Authoritative Foundations

Noam Wasserman — The Founder's Dilemmas

The single most important book on founding teams. Key finding: 65% of high-potential startups fail due to co-founder conflict, not product or market issues. The "Rich vs. King" dilemma: every founder must choose between maximizing wealth (taking less equity to attract a great co-founder) or maintaining control (keeping more equity but limiting growth).

YC on Co-Founders

  • Sam Altman: "Don't start a startup alone. The data is overwhelming."
  • Michael Seibel: "Find someone you've worked with before. Don't find a co-founder — work with people until one becomes your co-founder."
  • Dalton Caldwell: "The best co-founder relationships are tested under stress before incorporation. Ship projects together first."
  • Paul Graham: "The ideal number of founders is 2 or 3."

First Round Review — Co-Founder DNA

"Before you write a line of code, you need alignment on: ambition level (lifestyle vs. unicorn), risk tolerance, work ethic expectations, and what 'success' means to each founder."

Should You Have a Co-Founder?

Solo Founder — When It Works

  • You've raised before and have a network
  • Your product is simple enough for one person to build and sell
  • You're in a niche market that doesn't require speed-to-market
  • You have strong emotional resilience (it's lonely)
  • You're fine with 100% of a smaller pie vs. 50% of a bigger one

Read the full file on GitHub · 410 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 410 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A a856923b610f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

co-founder-dynamics is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeadMagic/gtm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 4,215 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 2026-09-03.

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