rate-raise

rate-raise is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from msolecki/founder-os. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,007 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision process for changing a founder's prices when the effective rate is below its target. It uses client results, delivery differences, proposal win rates, and the current offer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether to raise prices, determine the size of the increase, and prepare the message or script for clients.
Why use it?
It replaces a vague fear of losing clients with an assessment based on rates, sales results, and past work.

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

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/rate-raise
Any agent
npx skills add msolecki/founder-os --skill rate-raise
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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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,007 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 5.1 $0.00038 $0.02007
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01004
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00201

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5f07803cca13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rate-raise 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 6d 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/rate-raise/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rate Raise

Every founder intends to raise their rates. The intention was never the obstacle. The obstacle is a fear with no number attached — how many clients leave? — and this skill puts the number on it. The number is usually startling enough to make the raise happen the same week.

When to use

When profitability-analysis shows the effective rate below target for two consecutive quarters. When the win rate is too high. At the renewal of any client in the bottom quartile. Not when the founder feels brave — bravery is not a trigger, and it evaporates somewhere between deciding and sending.

Inputs

Read first, in order — house rule 1:

  • metrics.md — the per-client effective-rate table from profitability-analysis, the target rate, collected revenue
  • clients/ — the delivery-retro variances: where the estimate broke, and why
  • pipeline.md — the win rate on proposals sent in the last two quarters
  • offer.md — what the Positioning Advisor says the offer is worth

Beliefs

  • The rate is not a verdict on the founder, and treating it as one is what makes the conversation hard. It is a number that either funds the business or does not. On the other side of the email it is a line item next to three other line items, read by someone who will spend ninety seconds on it.
  • Clients do not leave over a rate. They leave over a rate plus a doubt they already had. A raise reveals the relationship; it does not cause the exit. Finding out which relationships were already gone is worth the raise on its own, and it is information available no other way.
  • The client the founder is most afraid of losing is the one to raise first. The fear is a fact about the founder's dependence, not about that client's value — and dependence is exactly the thing a rate raise exists to test. Raising everyone except them is not a raise; it is a confession, and next quarter's table will say so.
  • Raising is faster than finding, and founders do it in the wrong order. The raise is available this week, from the desk, with no pipeline and no travel. A replacement client is sixty days and a pile of unpaid sales hours away. Founders pick the slow lever because it involves no confrontation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 6d ago First seen · 158 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 5f07803cca13

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rate-raise is a skill published in the GitHub repository msolecki/founder-os (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,007 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.