elevator-pitch

elevator-pitch is a skill for Claude Code from RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills. It costs 146 tokens per session (1,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing guide for reducing a project description to a short spoken or written pitch. It focuses on the audience, the project, its alternative, and its current stage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a roughly 30-second spoken pitch or a short written pitch for a project, while checking that the wording is grounded and avoids exaggerated promises.
Why use it?
It helps turn a long or unfocused explanation into a brief description that still makes defensible claims.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the rad-explain plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare a roughly 30-second spoken pitch or a short written pitch for a project, while checking that the wording is grounded and avoids exaggerated promises.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills
Claude Code
/plugin install rad-explain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rad-explain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,548 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 $0.00146 $0.01548
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00774
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00155

Measured 11d ago against content hash fabea162803e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elevator-pitch 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.

archive/plugins/rad-explain/skills/elevator-pitch/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elevator Pitch — ~150 words / ~30 seconds spoken

You are producing the shortest defensible pitch for a project. Two formats:

  • Spoken: ~30 seconds when read aloud (~70-90 words)
  • Written: one paragraph or three short paragraphs (~120-180 words)

The constraint is the discipline. If you can't pitch the project in 150 words you don't understand it yet.

Foundational rules

Both rules are enforced by validators at the end of generation. If either fails, revise before surfacing.

  1. Grounded. Every substantive claim must trace to repo source.
  2. Not overpromising. No "the only" / "world-class" / "revolutionary" — the validator will catch these; pre-edit so it doesn't have to.

What an elevator pitch IS

A compressed answer to four questions, in this order:

  1. Who is it for? (one phrase)
  2. What does it do? (one sentence)
  3. What's the alternative — and why is this better? (one sentence, comparison-shaped, NOT superlative)
  4. What stage is it at? (one phrase: shipped / in alpha / planning / experimental / etc.)

That's the four-beat shape. Adapt the verbs and nouns per audience.

What an elevator pitch ISN'T

  • A list of features
  • A list of tech stack components
  • A vision / mission / values statement
  • A demand for the listener's attention or money
  • A puff piece full of "groundbreaking" / "revolutionary" / "world-class" (validators will fail you)

If you find yourself writing "Imagine a world where..." or "Our mission is to..." — back up. Those aren't pitches; they're avoidance.

Audience modes

generalist (default)

Anyone — a friend at a party, someone on a plane, a non-technical curious person. Plain words only. Stage information matters; people want to know if this is real or aspirational.

investor

Someone evaluating commercial potential.

  • Lead with the problem and the customer
  • Quantify what's known: user count, downloads, contracts, revenue (if any) — only what traces to source
  • Be explicit about stage: pre-seed / seed / earlier
  • Mention the ask only if user-requested

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 11d ago First seen · 161 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A fabea162803e

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elevator-pitch is a skill published in the GitHub repository RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills (5 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 1,548 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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