icp-definition

icp-definition is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from msolecki/founder-os. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A definition of the ideal customer profile, meaning the specific kind of buyer a company is built to serve. It narrows the description until it excludes real, identifiable people who are a poor fit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining the target customer before designing an offer or working on the sales pipeline, using paid-client evidence when available and treating example companies as preferences rather than proof.
Why use it?
Broad descriptions such as "businesses that need help" do not filter out unsuitable prospects. A narrower definition makes sales and content work more focused.

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 Defining the target customer before designing an offer or working on the sales pipeline, using paid-client evidence when available and treating example companies as preferences rather than proof.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/msolecki/founder-os/icp-definition
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 icp-definition
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 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,218 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 $0.00037 $0.02218
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01109
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00222

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1f3c0b0c92a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

icp-definition 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 7d 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/icp-definition/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ICP Definition

An ICP that excludes nobody is a mailing list. The founder already knows they serve "businesses that need help" — that sentence has never disqualified a single bad-fit call, which is the only job an ICP has.

When to use

Before offer-design, always — an offer for nobody in particular is a service menu. Also when the founder describes their buyer with adjectives ("ambitious", "values quality", "gets it"), when every project is bespoke, or when a prospect says "this is interesting" and vanishes. Run when /founder-os-init hands off here — it is the first stop after the charter.

First-run branch

Use this branch only when /founder-os-init invokes the skill and clients/ contains no paid-client evidence. Supplied companies are examples of the founder's preference, not clients and not proof. A first-run result is allowed to be thin; it is not allowed to sound researched.

Input state Classification Required action
paid-client evidence The workspace is not evidence-empty. Leave this branch and use the recurring evidence path from clients/.
founder examples only The named examples are preference, not evidence. Write a dated hypothesis as of YYYY-MM-DD, name the supplied named examples, mark them not evidence, and hand a queue validation proposal to the Chief of Staff.
examples unknown The ICP evidence and examples are UNKNOWN. Write UNKNOWN rather than a segment, hand a queue validation proposal to the Chief of Staff, and do not invent examples or attributes.

For the examples-only path, replace only offer.md ## ICP with:

## ICP
Updated: YYYY-MM-DD
Status: hypothesis — no paid-client evidence

### Who
<one-sentence hypothesis from the observable difference, or UNKNOWN>

### Trigger
UNKNOWN — no paid-client trigger supplied

### Attributes to test
- <observable difference supplied by the founder> — hypothesis, not evidence

### Not this
- <supplied named exclusion> — founder preference, not client evidence

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 7d ago First seen · 196 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 1f3c0b0c92a7

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icp-definition is a skill published in the GitHub repository msolecki/founder-os (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,218 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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