tool-foundation-sprint-founding-hypothesis

tool-foundation-sprint-founding-hypothesis is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/pm-skills. It costs 109 tokens per session (2,306 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Foundation Sprint closing guide that turns the team's chosen strategy into one clear, testable sentence. It also records supporting assumptions, reasons for belief, possible disproofs, and the next validation step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after selecting a top approach to write the Founding Hypothesis and its assumption scorecard, evidence, risks, and recommended next test.
Why use it?
It prevents the sprint from ending with a vague strategy or unresolved disagreement. The team leaves with a statement it can test and challenge.

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 after selecting a top approach to write the Founding Hypothesis and its assumption scorecard, evidence, risks, and recommended next test.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tool-foundation-sprint-founding-hypothesis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add product-on-purpose/pm-skills --skill tool-foundation-sprint-founding-hypothesis
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.

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,306 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 18 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 18 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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 $0.00109 $0.02306
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01153
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00461
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00231

Measured 9d ago against content hash d21fd391731a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tool-foundation-sprint-founding-hypothesis 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 9d 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/tool-foundation-sprint-founding-hypothesis/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Foundation Sprint Founding Hypothesis

Day 2 end of a Foundation Sprint. The team compresses the full sprint output into a single canonical sentence plus a testable scorecard. This is the artifact the sprint exists to produce; everything before this skill was preparation. Without a ratifiable Founding Hypothesis, the sprint failed.

Family contract: docs/reference/skill-families/foundation-sprint-skills-contract.md. This skill is a member of foundation-sprint-skills.

When to Use

  • Day 2 end of a Foundation Sprint.
  • Magic Lenses is signed; top bet and backup are named.
  • The team has 30-45 minutes left in Day 2 and the energy to write the sentence carefully.

When NOT to Use

  • Magic Lenses did not produce a clear top bet. Return to Magic Lenses; the Founding Hypothesis cannot stabilize on an unstable top bet.
  • The team wants to "polish the hypothesis later." The hypothesis must be ratified by end of Day 2 or the sprint output is incomplete. Polishing later means re-litigating; that defeats the sprint's purpose.
  • The team wants to ratify a vague hypothesis to "ship the sprint." A vague hypothesis is worse than no hypothesis; it gives false confidence and burns trust when validation fails.

What This Skill Produces

A single bundled artifact with five sections:

  1. Founding Hypothesis statement: the single canonical sentence (strict template, no paraphrase).
  2. Assumption scorecard: 5-7 assumptions extracted from the hypothesis, each scored on current confidence and tagged with a best next test (3-10 accepted; recommended range is 5-7).
  3. Why we believe this: 3-5 bulleted points naming the evidence base.
  4. What could prove us wrong: 3-5 bulleted points naming the risks. This section is the test of whether the team is in love with the hypothesis or holding it with calibrated confidence.
  5. Recommended next validation step: Design Sprint, customer research, experiment, landing page test, or other. Names the specific test, owner, and timeline.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 177 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A d21fd391731a

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tool-foundation-sprint-founding-hypothesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/pm-skills (663 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 2,306 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 2026-09-03.

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