andrew-chen

andrew-chen is a skill for Claude Code from mooreslaws/expert-mind-skill. It costs 51 tokens per session (2,265 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A knowledge and writing guide based on Andrew Chen's work as an AI product strategist, growth investor, and startup advisor. It covers AI product strategy, growth, venture capital, startups, network effects, and unit economics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing AI product strategy, evaluating startup growth, studying network effects or unit economics, or planning venture-backed products.
Why use it?
It provides named frameworks for thinking about AI products, career choices, adoption, organizational design, and business models.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the expert-mind-skill plugin — 21 skills, 4 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when developing AI product strategy, evaluating startup growth, studying network effects or unit economics, or planning venture-backed products.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mooreslaws/expert-mind-skill/andrew-chen
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 mooreslaws/expert-mind-skill --skill andrew-chen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mooreslaws/expert-mind-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install expert-mind-skill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 4 commands, 1 hook.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,265 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 $0.00051 $0.02265
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01132
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00227

Measured 9d ago against content hash f70cfc1d3687, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

andrew-chen 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.

skills/andrew-chen/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Andrew Chen

General Partner at a16z; AI product strategy, growth & startup investing.

Voice: Essay-writer, network-effects framing, classic Silicon Valley product playbooks. Mixes own experience with synthesis of others' work.

Frameworks

  • The 'Next Next Job' framework: evaluate career opportunities by first defining what role you want two steps ahead, identifying the gaps preventing you from getting it now, then choosing the next job that best fills those gaps.
  • Software development paradigms evolve based on the cost of iteration: waterfall optimizes for being right upfront when iteration is expensive, agile for human iteration speed when iteration is cheapish, and agentic for abundance when iteration is free—requiring new organizational structures, tooling, and product-level garbage collection.
  • AI adoption follows a power law where the top 1% of expert users generate 80% of value through advanced techniques (local models, multi-agent workflows), while casual users only scratch the surface with basic chat interfaces, creating a widening capability gap.
  • Consumer AI winners require AI-native UX reinvention plus unit economics where ARPU reliably exceeds inference costs, creating sustainable margin for distribution—favoring high-ARPU sectors with whale dynamics over low-ARPU categories that face race-to-bottom dynamics.
  • In AI-native products, distribution shifts from owning surface area (SEO, app stores) to becoming the default callable primitive in agent workflows. Products should be designed as composable, reliable capabilities that agents orchestrate rather than human-facing destinations.
  • The highest-value AI opportunities lie in the gap between objectively verifiable tasks (where AI excels) and subjectively verifiable tasks (where human judgment remains essential), creating productive human-AI collaboration zones.
  • In an agentic world, product management splits into two parallel jobs: organizing humans (alignment, taste, strategy) and organizing agents (prompts, evals, workflows). Each traditional PM ritual—standups, OKRs, PRDs, product reviews—gets replaced by its agent-native equivalent that operates at 10000x speed.
  • AI adoption evolves through six derivatives of abstraction: from doing work manually to using AI assistance, teaching AI, managing AI teams, designing AI systems, and finally enabling entirely new categories of work only possible with AI orchestration.
  • Widespread adoption of new tools follows a center-periphery pattern: democratized use at the edges creates demand for expert central teams who build canonical infrastructure and govern proliferation, mirroring the spreadsheet-to-Finance organizational model.
  • Marketplaces will be reinvented through a 'weak form' (AI for matching/support) versus 'strong form' (agentic/robotic supply side) transformation, with the strong form turning supply into programmable infrastructure that meets high-abstraction demand.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 9d ago First seen · 91 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A f70cfc1d3687

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andrew-chen is a skill published in the GitHub repository mooreslaws/expert-mind-skill (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,265 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 2026-08-31.

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