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 hiring-product-talentgit 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/hiring-product-talent)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/hiring-product-talent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/hiring-product-talent/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/hiring-product-talent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/hiring-product-talent.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00036 | $0.01462 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00731 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00292 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00146 |
Grade A, and why
hiring-product-talent 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 — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Hiring World-Class Product Talent
Build a high-leverage product organization by sourcing, evaluating, and closing the top 1% of talent.
Help the user with hiring world-class product talent using insights from 21 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.
How to Help
- Step name - Define the specific 'spike' and business outcomes required for the role rather than seeking a generic title.
- Step name - Source high-caliber talent through personal, manager-led relationship building rather than automated tools.
- Step name - Design an interview process that indexes on raw intellect, execution slope, and mission-alignment.
- Step name - Close candidates using radical transparency, personalized offer decks, and deep involvement from the executive team.
Core Principles
Generalist Versatility
Anton Osika: "Being a generalist, I think much more important than it used to be. If I'm putting together a product team today, I would really obsess about getting as many skill sets as possible for each person I hire."
In the AI era, individuals who can span multiple disciplines effectively provide more value than narrow specialists, allowing teams to remain lean and fast.
Intellect over Experience
Dmitry Zlokazov: "Everyone is striving for talented, skillful, smart people. Revolut values way more raw intellect and this unquenched hunger to build things rather than experience."
Prioritize high cognitive ability and a relentless drive to build over traditional industry experience or specific years of PM history.
Outcome-Based Mandates
Lauren Ipsen: "I think it’s trying to work a little bit backwards and think about, what is the actual outcome that we are trying to solve for with this hire? Or are we just hiring a head of product because we feel like we need to hire a head of product? That’s so often what I see is the board’s telling me we need to hire a head of product and I don’t necessarily think that we do, or I’m not exactly sure what we need in this role."
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 · 90 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 59560b11a48b
hiring-product-talent is a skill published in the GitHub repository RefoundAI/lenny-skills (1,321 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,462 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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