quarterly-planning

quarterly-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from msolecki/founder-os. It costs 46 tokens per session (3,185 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quarterly planning procedure that reviews the previous quarter’s goals and selects no more than three new bets, each with a condition for stopping. A bet is a planned outcome or priority, and a kill condition says when to abandon it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Closing quarterly goals, recording verdicts, choosing the next priorities, and defining measurable conditions for stopping work on them.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished or unsuccessful priorities from being carried forward indefinitely. Decisions are based on completed results rather than mid-quarter impressions.

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 Closing quarterly goals, recording verdicts, choosing the next priorities, and defining measurable conditions for stopping work on them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/msolecki/founder-os/quarterly-planning
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 quarterly-planning
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,185 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 $0.00046 $0.03185
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01592
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00637
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00318

Measured 10d ago against content hash db11c5436baf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quarterly-planning 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 10d 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/quarterly-planning/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quarterly Planning

A bet without a kill condition is a hope, and hopes do not get killed — they get rolled forward. Roll four hopes forward three times and the founder has eleven active priorities, no wins, and a strong sense of being busy.

The planning half of this skill is easy and the founder will enjoy it. The first step is the one that matters.

When to use

The first days of the quarter, once the CFO's close for the final month is in metrics.md. After setup-cadences, the local scheduler fires this on day 1 — 1 January, 1 April, 1 July, 1 October.

At the start and not the end, because step 1 is not optional and it is not possible early. Verdicting a quarter in its last week means verdicting it against numbers that are not in yet: two bets are pending, the close has not landed, and the founder marks them won because the week has been going well. A quarter you judge before it ends is a quarter you judge on mood, and this skill's whole argument is that "never measured" is the most damning verdict available. Wait the four days. Judge the finished thing.

Never mid-quarter. A new opportunity mid-quarter is bet-sizing, and an underperforming bet mid-quarter is kill-or-continue — neither is a reason to reopen the plan, and reopening the plan is how the quarter's commitments become suggestions.

If metrics.md has no close for the quarter's final month, stop and hand to the CFO — the same rule monthly-review runs on. Step 1 has nothing to settle verdicts with and the rest of this skill is built on step 1.

First-run branch

Use this branch only when /founder-os-init invokes the skill, goals.md has no bets and reviews/quarterly/ has no prior quarter. It creates a truthful partial-quarter starting state, not a fictional recurring review. Record the run date as YYYY-MM-DD.

Commit the first bet only when all five fields are non-empty and valid: numeric outcome, numeric kill condition, hours cap, cash cap and one concrete first move that can start within 21 days. Otherwise persist the blocked state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 10d ago First seen · 238 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A db11c5436baf

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quarterly-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository msolecki/founder-os (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 3,185 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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