automation-audit

automation-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from msolecki/founder-os. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,483 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cost-and-payback review for deciding whether a repetitive manual task is worth automating.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before starting automation work, when a manual task repeatedly causes trouble, or when coding is distracting from selling or delivery.
Why use it?
It prevents building internal tools that take more time and money to maintain than the task saves.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the founder-os plugin — 57 skills, 13 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it before starting automation work, when a manual task repeatedly causes trouble, or when coding is distracting from selling or delivery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/msolecki/founder-os/automation-audit
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 msolecki/founder-os --skill automation-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/msolecki/founder-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install founder-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills, 13 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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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 1,483 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 $0.00033 $0.01483
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00741
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00148

Measured 9d ago against content hash 884225e10533, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automation-audit 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.

founder-os/skills/automation-audit/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Automation Audit

A technical founder's automation backlog is mostly a list of things they would rather do than sell. This skill is the arithmetic that says no. It is the skill most likely to be resented, which is roughly the measure of whether it is working.

When to use

Before building anything internal. When the founder says a task is "killing them" for the fourth time. When a Sunday is about to disappear into tooling — and especially then, because automation urges spike on the day a proposal follow-up is due. Check the calendar before you check the code.

Inputs

Read first, in order — house rule 1:

  • systems.md — what is already automated, what is already broken, and what was built once and quietly abandoned
  • clients/ — is this manual work downstream of a delivery process the Delivery Lead could reshape for free? About half of it is.
  • metrics.md — the founder's effective hourly rate. It is the price of the build hours, and it is what turns this from a preference into a calculation.

Beliefs

  • Every automation is a permanent employee with an on-call rota of one. It draws no salary and it cannot be fired, but it can page the founder at 2am during a client deadline. The real cost is not the build; it is that a company of one now owns one more thing capable of failing while nobody is looking.
  • Automating an unstable process freezes it. A task that has run the same way twelve times is a candidate. One that has run three times is still being designed, and the script will settle the design by accident — after which nobody revisits it, because it works.
  • The manual work that survives is the work done for the favourite client. The bespoke monthly report nobody else receives, invented once as a courtesy, now a standing cost that appears in no proposal. It is never top of the automation list, because the founder does not experience it as work. Count its minutes with the others before deciding anything.
  • Manual and deliberate beats automated and unreviewed. A monthly task done by hand is also the founder's only scheduled look at the number. Automate it and the looking stops — the next thing that goes wrong is discovered by a client, which costs more than the hours the script ever saved.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 121 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 884225e10533

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automation-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository msolecki/founder-os (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,483 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.