accelerator-application

accelerator-application is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,639 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of accelerator-application, MIT.

A skill for preparing applications to startup accelerators, incubators, and fellowship programs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shortlist suitable programs, research what they want, draft application answers, and prepare for interviews.
Why use it?
It organizes program selection and application preparation around your company, team, goals, and eligibility.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to shortlist suitable programs, research what they want, draft application answers, and prepare for interviews.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills --skill accelerator-application
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,639 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 $0.00047 $0.02639
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01319
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00528
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00264

Measured 11d ago against content hash 12f4309f5282, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

accelerator-application 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 accelerator-application — 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.

skills/accelerator-application/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Accelerator Application

When to Use

  • Founder wants to apply to Y Combinator, Techstars, or other accelerator programs
  • Founder wants to identify which accelerators are the best fit for their stage and sector
  • Founder wants help drafting application essays and preparing for interviews
  • Founder wants to batch-apply to multiple programs efficiently

Context Required

  • Company stage, product, and traction metrics
  • Founder backgrounds and why this team is uniquely positioned
  • What the founder wants from an accelerator (funding, network, credibility, customers, mentorship)
  • Industry/vertical (some accelerators are sector-specific)
  • Geography and willingness to relocate
  • Previous applications or rejections (to improve this round)

Workflow

  1. Match accelerators to the startup — filter the directory below by stage fit, sector focus, geography, and program terms. Recommend a shortlist of 5-10 programs ranked by fit.
  2. Research each program's preferences — review recent cohort companies, partner bios, and published advice from each accelerator on what they look for. Note any patterns (YC values technical founders and fast growth; Techstars values coachability and market size).
  3. Draft the core narrative — write the foundational answers that most applications share:
    • What does your company do? (one sentence, no jargon)
    • What problem are you solving and for whom?
    • Why now? What's changed that makes this possible?
    • Why is this team the right team?
    • What traction do you have?
    • What's your unfair advantage or unique insight?
  4. Customize per application — adapt the core narrative to each program's specific questions, word limits, and culture. YC applications are famously terse. Techstars wants to see coachability. Others want market size.
  5. Prepare the video (if required) — draft a script for the 1-2 minute application video. Structure: problem → solution → traction → team → ask. Keep it authentic, not polished.
  6. Prepare for interviews — draft answers to common accelerator interview questions (see below). Practice the 30-second pitch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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. 11d ago First seen · 159 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 12f4309f5282

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accelerator-application is a skill published in the GitHub repository Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,639 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 accelerator-application, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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