Lenny Skills is a collection of product-management and engineering workflows for Claude Code and other AI agents, covering areas such as strategy, research, planning, shipping, growth, and hiring. Each skill gives an agent specialized guidance, frameworks, checklists, or templates for product work, and the catalogue contains many of these skills.
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.
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill building-growth-teamgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00032 | $0.01777 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00889 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00355 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00178 |
Grade A, and why
building-growth-team 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Building a Growth Team
Assemble and structure a high-impact team to scale distribution and optimize the user journey.
Help the user with building a growth team using insights from 14 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.
How to Help
- Assess Readiness - Evaluate if your product-market fit and data infrastructure are mature enough to support a dedicated growth function.
- Identify Bottlenecks - Map your current user journey friction to specific growth profiles like acquisition marketers or growth PMs.
- Design Org Structure - Determine whether a centralized, decentralized, or hybrid model best suits your company culture and execution speed.
- Screen for Competencies - Use a first-principles competency model to evaluate candidates based on specific skills rather than past company names.
Core Principles
Avoid Pattern Matching
Adam Fishman: "I get asked all the time about how do you hire growth people? And it's usually something like, 'Hey, how do we find you but 10 years earlier in your career?' And it feels like that question is missing the first principles approach to hiring a growth person. And if you're doing that, you're just pattern matching to me."
Do not hire based on a candidate's previous company pedigree. Instead, use a first-principles competency model to identify the specific skills required to solve your unique growth challenges.
Founders Lead First
Elena Verna 3.0: "In order to get the growth going in the company, a founder and the founding team have to figure out how to make it grow to the first, let's say a million, 5 million, 10 million in ARR. Some of the companies don't even create growth teams until they're a hundred, 200 million in ARR because to figure out your product market fit and how to distribute it's not something that you can outsource to somebody."
Founders must personally drive the initial growth phase to establish product-market fit. Delegation to a dedicated team should only occur once you reach significant revenue and high user volume.
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 100 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A c082d5765535
building-growth-team is a skill published in the GitHub repository RefoundAI/lenny-skills (1,321 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,777 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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