Getting it into your agent
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00062 | $0.03369 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00031 | $0.01684 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00674 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00337 |
Grade A, and why
first-hires-playbook 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 315 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
First Hires Playbook
Overview
Your first 10 hires define your company's trajectory more than any product decision. The mistake: hiring generalists with "good vibes" instead of role-specific operators who can build the function from zero. This skill covers when to hire each critical first role, how to write job descriptions that attract builders (not corporate ladder-climbers), interview design, compensation, and offer construction.
Authoritative Foundations
- SaaStr/Jason Lemkin — First VP hiring benchmarks — First VP hiring benchmarks
- Elad Gil — High Growth Handbook (hiring executives) — High Growth Handbook (hiring executives)
- Molly Graham — Giving away your Legos (scaling teams) — Giving away your Legos (scaling teams)
- Patty McCord — Powerful (Netflix culture, hiring for density) — Powerful (Netflix culture, hiring for density)
- Claire Hughes Johnson — Scaling People (Stripe COO) — Scaling People (Stripe COO)
- First Round Review — Hiring playbooks — Hiring playbooks
When to Use
Trigger phrases: "first hire", "first engineer", "first CS hire", "hiring playbook", "founding team", "early hires", "when to hire marketing", "first product hire", "hiring timeline by ARR stage"
Hiring Timeline by ARR
| Role | When | Why Then |
|---|---|---|
| Founding Engineer | $0-500K | Build product alongside you |
| First SDR | $500K-1M | Prove outbound repeatability |
| First AE | $1-2M | Founder transitions from selling |
| First CSM | $1-2M | Churn becomes math problem |
| First Marketer | $2-4M | Content engine needs owner |
| First Product Manager | $3-5M | You can't be PM + CEO anymore |
| Head of Engineering | $3-5M | ICs need technical leadership |
| VP Finance/Ops | $5-10M | Financial complexity demands it |
| VP People | $10-20M | 50+ employees needs people ops |
| First Data Analyst | $3-5M | Decisions need data, not gut |
Step-by-Step Process
Phase 1: Role Definition
Every first hire solves a specific business constraint, not a general "we need help" feeling. Define the constraint first:
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.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 315 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A ece2f8b64f6a
first-hires-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeadMagic/gtm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 3,369 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 2026-09-03.
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