bet-sizing

bet-sizing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from msolecki/founder-os. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method for deciding how much time or money to risk on a business opportunity before committing to it. It records a maximum acceptable loss and checks that limit against available cash, time, and previous decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before adding a new bet to a quarterly plan or when a new opportunity appears during the quarter.
Why use it?
It prevents a promising opportunity from consuming unlimited resources after work has already begun. The spending limit is chosen before sunk costs make the decision harder to judge.

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 adding a new bet to a quarterly plan or when a new opportunity appears during the quarter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/msolecki/founder-os/bet-sizing
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 bet-sizing
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 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,269 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 $0.00031 $0.01269
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00634
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00127

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6b871f453c79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bet-sizing 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 8d 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/bet-sizing/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bet Sizing

The founder has already computed the upside. That arithmetic is why they are in the room, and it is not in dispute. This skill computes the other number.

The cap is the product here. A maximum spend chosen now, before anything is sunk, is a real constraint. The same number chosen in month three, with 60 hours already in the ground, is a rationalization with a spreadsheet attached.

When to use

Before any bet is written into goals.md — every bet in quarterly-planning passes through here.

Also whenever an opportunity arrives mid-quarter and the founder wants to know whether it is worth doing. It usually is, at some size. The question is which size.

Inputs

Read first — house rule 1:

  • metrics.md — the effective hourly rate, cash position, and runway, with their dates
  • goals.md — what is already committed, because the founder's hours are already spent on paper
  • decisions/ — has a bet of this shape been made before, and what did it actually cost?

Beliefs

  • The upside is not in dispute and it is not an input. Every bet that reaches this room has a good upside — that is why it arrived. A number that is high for every option cannot discriminate between them, so computing it again is not rigour, it is company.
  • Almost every bet is worth taking at some size, and almost none at the size the founder first proposed. "Should I do this?" is the wrong question wearing the clothes of caution. The question is how much of the company they are willing to lose finding out.
  • Deliberation is spend. A week of analysis on something reversible in an afternoon has already cost more than the mistake could, and a founder carefully evaluating a cheap reversible bet is busy not deciding something else. Ask which one.
  • Founder hours are not free on a quiet week. "I'd have been working anyway" is the sentence that funds every unpriced bet in this company, and the hours it hides are the hours goals.md had already committed to something else.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 8d ago First seen · 111 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 6b871f453c79

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bet-sizing is a skill published in the GitHub repository msolecki/founder-os (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,269 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.

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