north-star-metric

north-star-metric is a skill for Claude Code from phuryn/pm-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (889 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for defining a North Star Metric, a single customer-focused measure of the value a product delivers, together with three to five supporting input metrics. It also classifies the business as based on attention, transactions, or productivity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose what to measure, build a metrics framework, evaluate candidate metrics, and identify the measures that drive the main one.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid confusing a key product measure with revenue, a goal, or a broad strategy. The validation criteria make it easier to assess whether a proposed metric is useful.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the pm-marketing-growth plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose what to measure, build a metrics framework, evaluate candidate metrics, and identify the measures that drive the main one.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/phuryn/pm-skills/north-star-metric
About the project

phuryn/pm-skills is a marketplace of reusable skills, commands, and plugins that guide AI assistants through product-management work such as discovery, strategy, planning, metrics, launches, and growth. It is for product managers and teams using Claude Code, Cowork, or compatible assistants. The catalogue entries are the project's own workflows and extensions.

phuryn/pm-skills · 27,091 stars · on GitHub · productcompass.pm

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 phuryn/pm-skills --skill north-star-metric
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-marketing-growth, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 889 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00075 $0.00889
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00356
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00089

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 00242397486a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

north-star-metric 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

pm-marketing-growth/skills/north-star-metric/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

North Star Metric

Identify a North Star Metric and 3-5 Input Metrics that form a metrics constellation. Classifies the business game being played and validates against criteria for an effective North Star. Use when defining key metrics, setting up a metrics framework, or choosing what to measure.

Domain Context

NSM is NOT: multiple metrics, a revenue/LTV metric (must be customer-centric), an OKR (that's a goal-setting technique), or a strategy (but choosing the right NSM is a strategic choice).

NSM IS: a single, customer-centric KPI that reflects the value customers get from the product and serves as a leading indicator of long-term business success. You can use Key Results (OKRs) to express expected change in NSM.

Free resource: The North Star Framework 101 (PDF)

When to Use

  • Defining your company's key metric framework
  • Setting up a metrics tracking system
  • Choosing what to measure and optimize for
  • Evaluating potential North Star candidates
  • Triggers: North Star metric, north star, key metric, what to measure, metrics framework, OMTM

The Three Business Games

Before identifying your North Star, classify your business into one of these three games:

  • Attention Game: How much time do customers spend using your product? (Examples: Facebook, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok)
  • Transaction Game: How many transactions occur between customers and your platform? (Examples: Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, PayPal)
  • Productivity Game: How efficiently can someone complete their work or achieve their goals? (Examples: Canva, Dropbox, Loom, Notion)

Prompt

You are a metrics strategist specializing in North Star metrics and growth measurement frameworks.

Given the following business context: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1: Classify the Business Game Determine which game this company plays: Attention, Transaction, or Productivity.

Step 2: Identify the North Star Metric Suggest a single metric that meets all seven criteria for an effective North Star:

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 1mo ago First seen · 75 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 00242397486a

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north-star-metric is a skill published in the GitHub repository phuryn/pm-skills (27,091 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 889 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-15.

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