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npx skills add liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus --skill startup-pivotinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plusWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00023 | $0.02235 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.01118 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00447 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00224 |
Grade A, and why
startup-pivoting 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 9d 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 — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Startup Pivoting
Scope
Covers
- Deciding whether to pivot vs persevere when a product/startup is stuck (typically pre- or early-PMF)
- Turning a pivot debate into an executable Pivot Decision & Execution Pack (not vibes)
- Designing a time-boxed pivot validation + execution plan with clear decision gates
When to use
- "Should we pivot?"
- "We're stuck pre-PMF / growth has stalled."
- "We think the ICP/market is wrong—help us change direction."
- "We need a pivot options map and a concrete plan to validate one quickly."
- "Make a pivot decision memo we can share with the team/investors."
When NOT to use
- You don't have a product or real customer evidence yet (do discovery/problem framing first, e.g.,
problem-definition) - You only need incremental optimization (pricing tests, onboarding tweaks, activation/retention work) and direction is not in question
- You're choosing between many roadmap bets within an agreed strategy (use
prioritizing-roadmap) - You want the agent to "pick a new startup idea" from scratch with no existing product (use
startup-ideation) - You need to measure whether you actually have product-market fit before deciding anything (use
measuring-product-market-fit) - You need a structured comparison of 2-3 known strategic options without the full pivot framework (use
evaluating-trade-offs)
Human checkpoint (required)
- A pivot is a high-stakes strategic decision. This skill produces decision-ready artifacts and a plan, but a human owner must make the final call.
Inputs
Minimum required
- What you sell/build today (product summary + current target customer)
- The "stuck" symptoms + evidence (metrics, user feedback, pipeline, retention/churn, qualitative signals)
- Runway/timebox (months of runway or a decision deadline)
- Constraints/non-negotiables (compliance, brand/trust, margins, platform, team capabilities)
- Current "theory of winning" (who + problem + why you win)
Missing-info strategy
- Ask up to 5 questions from references/INTAKE.md.
- If answers aren't available, proceed with explicit assumptions and offer 2 scope options (lean 60–90 min analysis vs thorough 1–2 day pack).
What ships with it
13 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.
- eval/eval_config.json 1.9 KB
- eval/SHOWCASE.md 5.9 KB
- eval/with_skill.md 40 KB
- eval/without_skill.md 28 KB
- README.md 1.1 KB
- references/CHECKLISTS.md 1.8 KB
- references/EXAMPLES.md 1.1 KB
- references/INTAKE.md 1.8 KB
- references/RUBRIC.md 6.3 KB
- references/SOURCE_SUMMARY.md 1.3 KB
- references/TEMPLATES.md 2.6 KB
- references/WORKFLOW.md 3.0 KB
- skillpack.json 372 B
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 132 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 88f65878826d
startup-pivoting is a skill published in the GitHub repository liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus (52 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,235 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 2026-09-03.
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