warm-path-finder

warm-path-finder is a skill for Claude Code from oncesylvia/fundraising-skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (1,933 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fundraising-research skill that identifies the investor at a firm who owns a relevant deal and maps people who could introduce you to them. A warm introduction is a referral through a trusted mutual contact.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding a suitable partner, principal, or senior investment manager and ranking legitimate routes to reach that person. People, roles, and connections must come from real data or live research.
Why use it?
It helps avoid contacting the wrong investor and replaces guesswork about introductions with documented, authorized connection paths.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the fundraising-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for finding a suitable partner, principal, or senior investment manager and ranking legitimate routes to reach that person. People, roles, and connections must come from real data or live research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oncesylvia/fundraising-skills/warm-path-finder
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 oncesylvia/fundraising-skills --skill warm-path-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oncesylvia/fundraising-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fundraising-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,933 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 $0.00130 $0.01933
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00966
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00387
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00193

Measured 12d ago against content hash d68a72481871, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

warm-path-finder 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 12d 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.

skills/warm-path-finder/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Warm path finder

Targeting tells a founder which firms. This skill closes the gap everyone gets stuck on: which specific human to reach, and who can warmly introduce them. It does two jobs:

  1. Pinpoint the person — the partner / principal / senior investment manager who actually owns your sector and stage at the target firm (pitching the wrong person wastes the shot). See references/finding-the-person.md.
  2. Map & rank warm paths to that person — surface every legitimate route from the founder's network, score by trust × reachability, and hand the best one to the warm-intro skill. See references/connection-mapping.md.

Read shared/references/outreach-ethics.md first. The whole skill lives or dies on staying inside what's authorized and public (see the data-source tiers below). Same anti-hallucination rule as the other research skills: a person or a connection you assert must come from real data or live research, with a source — never invent a partner, a title, or a mutual contact.

The hard line on data (read this before doing anything)

✅ Allowed ❌ Not allowed
The founder's own authorized data: their Gmail, their Google/phone contacts, a LinkedIn connections export they downloaded Reading the founder's LinkedIn graph via API or scraping (no API exists; scraping breaks ToS and risks a ban)
Public info: X/Twitter bios, firm team pages, portfolio lists, podcasts, conference speakers, Crunchbase/AngelList people Crawling login-walled content at scale
The founder manually checking shared connections / DM-open status while logged in Guessing or buying personal email addresses to blast

If a step would cross this line, stop and tell the founder.

Step 1 — Pinpoint the right person

For a target firm, identify the specific decision-maker, not "the firm." See references/finding-the-person.md. In short:

  • Find the partner/principal who leads your sector & stage — via the firm's team page, who led the round for portfolio companies like yours (search " partner"), their public thesis/posts.
  • A senior associate / principal / senior investment manager who covers your space can be the better first target than a famous GP — they're more reachable and looking to source. Note who sources vs. who decides.
  • Capture their public footprint: firm bio, LinkedIn URL, X handle, recent writing/podcasts. This is research input, not contact-harvesting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 142 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A d68a72481871

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warm-path-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository oncesylvia/fundraising-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 1,933 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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