supply-demand-balance

supply-demand-balance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martineserios/thebrana. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,677 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of supply-demand-balance, MIT.

A guide for marketplace businesses, where a marketplace connects people who provide something with people who want it. It helps determine whether limited supply or limited demand is slowing growth.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study transaction data, choose acquisition channels, set supply targets, and resolve supply-versus-demand product trade-offs.
Why use it?
It clarifies which side of the marketplace needs attention first and helps balance growth efforts with the need for enough useful choices and customers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to study transaction data, choose acquisition channels, set supply targets, and resolve supply-versus-demand product trade-offs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martineserios/thebrana/supply-demand-balance
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 martineserios/thebrana --skill supply-demand-balance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martineserios/thebrana

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,677 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00033 $0.01677
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00839
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00168

Measured 11d ago against content hash 93025a7a55db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

supply-demand-balance 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to supply-demand-balance — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/supply-demand-balance/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Supply Demand Balance

Master marketplace liquidity by identifying bottlenecks and strategically scaling the harder side of the market.

Help the user with supply demand balance using insights from 6 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

How to Help

  1. Diagnose constraints - Analyze transaction data to determine if supply or demand is the primary factor limiting your current growth.
  2. Select acquisition levers - Evaluate and prioritize the top two or three channels most likely to successfully bootstrap your initial supply side.
  3. Define density targets - Establish clear thresholds for supply variety and volume needed to keep the demand side engaged.
  4. Resolve trade-offs - Use guiding principles to navigate conflict between supply and demand needs during product prioritization.

Core Principles

Concentrate resources on supply first

From "How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business – Part 2: Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Problem 🐣 - Supply vs. Demand": "The lesson we took away from this was that all that matters is supply. So we decided to focus on that above all else. We postponed building brand and delightful product until we had liquidity. Dozens of other startups took another direction. Case after case, it proved a mistake."

Achieve early liquidity by focusing nearly all resources on growing supply before investing heavily in brand building or product polish.

Pinpoint the primary bottleneck

From "How To Know If You're Supply or Demand Constrained 🤹‍♂️ - Phase 2 of Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace Business": "It simply means that your biggest constraint to driving additional transactions is a lack of supply (e.g. Airbnb Homes, Uber drivers) or a lack of demand (e.g. Rover dog owners, TaskRabbit customers). In theory, you always want more of both, but in many cases adding more of one side doesn’t actually lead to growth. Your resources are better spent elsewhere."

Growth depends on identifying which side of the marketplace is currently limiting transactions so you do not waste resources on the side that is already ready.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 88 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 93025a7a55db

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supply-demand-balance is a skill published in the GitHub repository martineserios/thebrana (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,677 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to supply-demand-balance, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.