foundation-lean-canvas

foundation-lean-canvas is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. It costs 94 tokens per session (2,659 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A one-page Lean Canvas: a structured summary of a product idea's problem, customers, solution, value proposition, channels, revenue, costs, metrics, and advantages. It is a planning format for making startup assumptions visible and testable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame a new product, test an existing strategy, compare options, or generate the canvas as Markdown with an optional self-contained HTML and SVG visual version.
Why use it?
It puts connected business assumptions on one page, making it easier to spot gaps and see how changing one assumption affects the others.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to frame a new product, test an existing strategy, compare options, or generate the canvas as Markdown with an optional self-contained HTML and SVG visual version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/foundation-lean-canvas
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 product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill foundation-lean-canvas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 11 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,659 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 27 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 27 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Data Exfiltration · line 52
    Code or instructions that leak agent conversation context to external services, potentially exposing sensitive user interactions.
    Fix: Remove any code that sends prompts, responses, or session data externally. Preserve user privacy; never exfiltrate conversation content.
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 $0.00094 $0.02659
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.01329
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00532
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00266

Measured 13d ago against content hash f91b74a3ee28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

foundation-lean-canvas 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 13d 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/foundation-lean-canvas/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lean Canvas

A lean canvas is a one-page business thesis that makes your assumptions about problem, customer, solution, and viability explicit and testable. Developed by Ash Maurya from Alex Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas, it is specifically adapted for startups and product teams operating under uncertainty. Nine interlocking blocks force you to articulate the whole picture at once so that changing one block's assumptions surfaces the ripple effect on the others.

This skill is a strategic hub, not a specialist tool. It produces the integrated one-page artifact and cross-links to deeper PM skills (define-problem-statement, foundation-persona, define-jtbd-canvas, develop-solution-brief, discover-competitive-analysis, measure-experiment-design) for single-block depth when needed.

Supported Modes

  • content (default) produces the nine-block canvas as structured markdown.
  • visual produces the markdown canvas AND writes a self-contained, attractive .html file to disk using references/html-template.html as the layout scaffold. The HTML renders the canonical Maurya nine-block layout with polished typography, subtle per-column color accents, confidence badges per block, and print-ready A3 landscape styling. No external assets or CDN dependencies: the file opens correctly in a browser with no network access.

If mode is omitted, default to content and state that fallback explicitly.

When to Use

  • Framing a new product, feature, or business thesis on one page
  • Stress-testing an existing business by making implicit assumptions explicit
  • Comparing two or more strategic options side-by-side (run the skill once per option, then diff)
  • Onboarding new team members into the strategic thesis in a single artifact
  • Mid-phase reality check: does the thesis still hold given what we have learned?
  • Pairing with measure-experiment-design to prioritize which block assumptions to test first

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 13d ago First seen · 124 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A f91b74a3ee28

Subscribe to this mod's changes

foundation-lean-canvas is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/pm-skills (663 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 2,659 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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