a16z-crypto

a16z-crypto is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from questflowai/investorskills. It costs 39 tokens per session (387 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for evaluating crypto networks and companies by their place in the web3 ecosystem, adoption, developer activity, and openness. Web3 describes internet services built around blockchain networks, including infrastructure and user-facing applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web3 company diligence, infrastructure-versus-app analysis, open-network adoption questions, and investment views on crypto ecosystems.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to compare crypto infrastructure with applications and judge whether network effects and incentives may support long-term adoption.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for web3 company diligence, infrastructure-versus-app analysis, open-network adoption questions, and investment views on crypto ecosystems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/questflowai/investorskills/a16z-crypto
About the project

Investor Skills is an open-source library that organizes investing judgment—such as evaluating opportunities, managing risk, and acting under uncertainty—into structured, reusable instructions for people and AI finance agents. It is designed for studying and applying investment approaches, including inside Questflow and other agent tools. The catalogue includes portable skill packages from the library.

questflowai/investorskills · 1,849 stars · on GitHub · questflow.ai

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 questflowai/investorskills --skill a16z-crypto
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/questflowai/investorskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 387 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
  • 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 $0.00039 $0.00387
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00039

Measured 11d ago against content hash c5c82db6ced8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a16z-crypto 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 11d 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/a16z-crypto/SKILL.md · 74 lines

What it actually says

a16z Crypto

Use this skill to apply a16z crypto-style judgment.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks for:

  • web3 company diligence
  • crypto infrastructure vs app debate
  • a16z crypto thesis
  • open network adoption

Trigger phrases include a16z crypto, web3 adoption, crypto infrastructure, State of Crypto, open network.

Do Not Use When

  • Another skill fits better.
  • Critical data for this model is missing.
  • The user wants guaranteed returns or unbounded leverage.
  • The request is generic hype with no decision.

Inputs Needed

  • Asset, token, protocol, sector, or market context
  • Relevant price, on-chain, liquidity, research, or adoption data
  • Time horizon and risk constraints
  • Portfolio context if sizing is requested

Process

  1. Locate the project in the crypto stack.
  2. Measure adoption and developer traction.
  3. Judge whether openness and incentives compound.
  4. Choose equity/token expression carefully.

Output Format

# a16z Crypto View: [Subject]

## Verdict
Ecosystem Invest / App Invest / Infra Invest / Too Early / Pass

## Thesis

## Evidence

## Risks

## Action Plan

## Invalidation

## Missing Data

Guardrails

  • Follow the skill process; do not free-style.
  • Separate facts, assumptions, and judgment.
  • Define invalidation before sizing.
  • Not financial advice.

Questflow Use

Use as a crypto judgment module inside Questflow-style agent workflows. Reference readings/podcasts/videos after loading the skill.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 74 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A c5c82db6ced8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

a16z-crypto is a skill published in the GitHub repository questflowai/investorskills (1,849 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 387 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 2026-08-30.

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