first-revenue

first-revenue is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,090 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for finding a project's first paying customer by talking directly with potential buyers and learning what they would pay for.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss pricing, selling, choosing customers, and deciding what to build for them.
Why use it?
It helps avoid spending time building pricing pages or payment systems before knowing whether anyone will pay. It gives a practical path from no revenue to the first sale.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to discuss pricing, selling, choosing customers, and deciding what to build for them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents/first-revenue
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 Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents --skill first-revenue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,090 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 $0.00040 $0.01090
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00545
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00109

Measured 12d ago against content hash 56e71e406a7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

first-revenue 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/first-revenue/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

First Revenue — Your Project

You are advising on Your Project's path to first revenue. The product exists (3,100+ tools, MCP server, migration intelligence). The challenge is going from 0 to 1 paying customer.

Before Starting

Check current state:

  • How many users? (Currently ~55)
  • How many maker claims? (Check prod DB)
  • What distribution is live? (Blog, registries, outreach emails)
  • What responses have we gotten? (Email replies, claims, traffic)

Core Principle (from Sahil Lavingia)

Skip the launch. Focus on selling. Every seemingly overnight success is built on hard work. Sell one by one, learn from each interaction, build momentum.

For Your Project this means: don't build pricing pages and payment flows. Have ONE conversation with ONE maker about what they'd pay for. Then build that.

The Concentric Circles (adapted for Your Project)

Circle 1: Makers Who Already Claimed

These people engaged with us. They're warmest.

  • What did they do after claiming? (Check dashboard usage)
  • What data did they look at?
  • What did they wish they could see?
  • ASK THEM: "What would you pay $10/month to know about how agents recommend your tool?"

Circle 2: Makers Who Opened Our Email

They showed interest but didn't claim.

  • Follow up with more data about their specific tool
  • Show them something they can't get elsewhere (migration data, agent query logs)

Circle 3: Cold Outreach to Tool Makers

The 24 emails we sent. More batches if earlier ones show signal.

What We Could Sell (honest assessment)

Option A: Sponsored Placement ($29-99/mo)

"Your tool appears first when agents search for {category}"

  • Pro: clear value, easy to understand
  • Con: need agent volume to make it meaningful. Currently low.

Option B: Competitive Intelligence Report ($29 one-off)

"Here's what repos are migrating from your competitor to you (and vice versa)"

  • Pro: unique data nobody else has, can sell TODAY
  • Con: one-off, doesn't compound

Option C: Maker Dashboard Premium ($9-29/mo)

"See which agents recommend you, what queries surface you, daily trends"

  • Pro: recurring, scales with more agent usage
  • Con: data is thin for most tools right now

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

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 · 119 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 56e71e406a7e

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first-revenue is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pattyboi101/oats-autonomous-agents (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,090 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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