building-sales-team

building-sales-team is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,366 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning guide for hiring and ramping an early sales team. It focuses on deciding when to hire, choosing the first sales roles, and creating scorecards, interviews, onboarding, and coaching routines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan the first account executive, sales development representative, or hybrid role, and to create hiring criteria and a 30/60/90-day ramp plan.
Why use it?
It helps founders avoid hiring too early or depending on one exceptional salesperson. The plan supports a repeatable sales process as the team grows.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan the first account executive, sales development representative, or hybrid role, and to create hiring criteria and a 30/60/90-day ramp plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/building-sales-team
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus --skill building-sales-team
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,366 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 $0.00024 $0.02366
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01183
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00237

Measured 13d ago against content hash 071487c14961, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-sales-team 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 13d 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/building-sales-team/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Sales Team

Scope

Covers

  • Deciding when to hire sales vs continue founder-led selling
  • Designing the first sales team (pilot AE/SDR/hybrid) and hiring sequence
  • Hiring for repeatability (avoid “one heroic rep” dependency)
  • Setting a minimal operating cadence (ramp plan, metrics, coaching loop)
  • Technical / product-heavy selling: “sales that can pass for PMs”

When to use

  • “We’re ready to hire our first AE / SDR—help me design the plan.”
  • “Should we hire sales now or wait until the motion is repeatable?”
  • “Create role scorecards + an interview loop for early sales hires.”
  • “We’re starting product-led sales—how do we run a small pilot team?”
  • “Build an onboarding + 30/60/90 ramp plan for the first reps.”

When NOT to use

  • You need to get first customers / validate ICP from scratch (use founder-sales first)
  • You need to design OTE, quotas, commission mechanics, or pay mix for sales roles (use sales-compensation)
  • You need general interview best practices or structured hiring for non-sales roles (use conducting-interviews)
  • You need onboarding playbooks for non-sales new hires (use onboarding-new-hires)
  • You’re scaling a mature sales org (territories, forecasting, multi-layer management)
  • You need legal/HR advice, compensation plan legal review, or employment compliance guidance
  • You want generic hiring advice without a defined sales motion and measurable readiness gates

Inputs

Minimum required

  • Company stage (pre-seed/seed/Series A+) and current GTM motion (PLG, outbound, enterprise, inbound)
  • Current funnel baseline: last ~50–100 “at-bats” if available (first meetings → closed-won), win rate, typical ACV, cycle length
  • ICP + product complexity (how technical is the sell; who must be convinced)
  • Current resources: founder time, CS/support involvement, marketing demand, budget/headcount constraints
  • Timeline + success definition (e.g., “2 reps ramped to $X pipeline/month in 90 days”)

Missing-info strategy

  • Ask up to 5 questions from references/INTAKE.md.
  • If data is missing, proceed with explicit assumptions and deliver two options: (A) “Hire now (pilot)” vs (B) “Wait + founder-led milestones to hit first”.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 13d ago First seen · 137 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 071487c14961

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building-sales-team is a skill published in the GitHub repository liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus (52 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,366 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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