proposal-draft

A proposal-writing guide for qualified deals, covering the work included, price, exclusions, and expiry date.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a client proposal after checking that the deal is real and the team has capacity.
Why use it?
It prevents unclear boundaries from turning into unpaid work or disputes later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the founder-os plugin — 42 skills, 13 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/msolecki/founder-os/proposal-draft
Any agent
npx skills add msolecki/founder-os --skill proposal-draft
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 42 skills, 13 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,926 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00040 $0.02926
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01463
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00585
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00293

Measured 3d ago against content hash c18aa33242f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proposal-draft 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 3d 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/proposal-draft/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Proposal Draft

Four things make a proposal: scope, price, exclusions, expiry. Founders write the first two beautifully and skip the last two, and then spend the project paying for it.

The exclusions are the point. They are not fine print and they are not defensiveness — they are the scope baseline that scope-guard (Delivery Lead) enforces in week five when the client asks for "one small thing". An exclusion that is not written in this document does not exist. "We both understood that wasn't included" has never once worked, on anyone, in the history of professional services.

When to use

When a deal is qualified — amount named, decision-maker identified, trigger real — and the next action is to propose. Not before capacity-check.

Inputs

Read first, in order — house rule 1:

  • pipeline.md — this deal: what they asked for, in their words, on the call

  • voice.md## Samples, ## Tells, ## Never, ## Register. A proposal is the most formal thing the founder sends, and ## Register says by how much the formality shifts — it shifts from their baseline, not to a generic one. A founder who writes in three-sentence paragraphs does not become a management consultant on page one, and the buyer who liked them on the call is the person reading this. The prose sections are where this lands: the problem statement, "done means", and the consequence attached to each exclusion.

    If ## Samples is empty, say so on the handoff — "no voice samples on record; this reads as a generic proposal document" — and hand the founder voice-capture (Brand Editor).

  • offer.md — the offer, the ### Not included list, the price, and the floor. You copy from this file; you do not invent a number in it.

  • clients/the most important input. Every scope overrun that actually happened, and every hour delivered and never billed. This is where the real exclusions live.

  • Delivery Lead's capacity-check — the start date. You do not know what is free, and guessing commits the founder to work they cannot deliver.

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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. 3d ago First seen · 233 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A c18aa33242f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proposal-draft is a skill published in the GitHub repository msolecki/founder-os (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,926 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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