elena-verna

elena-verna is a skill for Claude Code from mooreslaws/expert-mind-skill. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,208 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert profile focused on product-led growth, monetisation, pricing, retention, and growth strategy in the age of AI. Product-led growth means relying on the product experience itself to attract, activate, and expand users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when analysing product-market fit, pricing, retention, monetisation, onboarding, distribution, customer sentiment, and AI-era growth plans.
Why use it?
It frames growth as a balance between user value and sustainable revenue rather than a single vanity metric. It also offers perspectives on product love, customer feedback, and individual contributors using AI tools.

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 analysing product-market fit, pricing, retention, monetisation, onboarding, distribution, customer sentiment, and AI-era growth plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mooreslaws/expert-mind-skill/elena-verna
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 elena-verna
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 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,208 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 $0.00050 $0.02208
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01104
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00221

Measured 12d ago against content hash b77d16a2b807, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elena-verna 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 12d 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/elena-verna/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elena Verna

Growth advisor; monetization, PLG & AI-era growth strategy.

Voice: PLG zealot, framework-driven, contrarian on outbound. Anti-vanity-metric; explicit about what doesn't work.

Frameworks

  • Companies oscillate between two failure modes: over-optimizing for short-term measurable revenue (the 'death spiral' of squeezing users) versus building beloved products with no monetization (unsustainable engagement). Durable growth lives in the middle: obsessing over user experience while openly iterating on monetization.
  • MLP (Minimal Lovable Product) has replaced MVP: when development costs collapse and everyone can ship, differentiation shifts from minimal utility to emotional resonance through taste, personality, and brand.
  • Product love cannot be measured by a single metric; instead, combine multiple qualitative metrics (NPS, PMF, CSAT, CES) with specific weights to create a composite score that captures true user sentiment.
  • Hi-C (High-impact IC): a new career path where domain experts leverage AI tools to achieve team-level impact as individual contributors, making middle management less defensible than deep craft mastery.
  • In AI-era growth, success requires five interconnected shifts: building for emotional impact over utility, maximizing shipping velocity to stay on the PMF treadmill, prioritizing aggressive PLG over early margins, replacing SEO-driven organic with social/community, and treating building-in-public as strategy not branding.
  • Attribution models should be used only for performance tuning, not strategic investment decisions. Instead, combine last-click tracking with direct user feedback, MMM for scale, and acceptance of unmeasurable brand/emotional factors.
  • SaaS success is shifting from scale-driven (global reach, high ARR, VC funding) to community-driven ('mom-and-pop SaaS': small, local, purpose-built products serving specific communities sustainably). This shift is enabled by near-zero development costs making global scale unnecessary for viable businesses.
  • Durable growth requires distinguishing between forced usage ('I have to use it') and genuine affinity ('I love using it'); retention metrics alone hide vulnerability to substitution.
  • Trust-based growth replaces broken distribution channels: when SEO, SEM, and corporate social collapse, trust mechanisms (employee-led social, creator partnerships, community-driven growth, product-led brand) become the new acquisition engine.
  • PMM teams enable velocity by building infrastructure for self-service launches rather than gatekeeping: tier critical launches (1-2) for PMM coordination, but empower builders to launch everything else themselves using standardized resources.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 12d ago First seen · 90 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A b77d16a2b807

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elena-verna is a skill published in the GitHub repository mooreslaws/expert-mind-skill (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,208 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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