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 shipping-velocitygit 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/shipping-velocity)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/shipping-velocity"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/shipping-velocity/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/shipping-velocity"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/shipping-velocity.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 | $0.01479 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00740 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00296 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00148 |
Grade A, and why
shipping-velocity 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Shipping Velocity
Accelerate execution by removing organizational friction and establishing a high-intensity shipping culture.
Help the user with shipping velocity using insights from 19 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.
How to Help
- Audit existing bottlenecks - Identify where projects get stuck in your current lifecycle and benchmark against high-performing teams.
- Implement velocity rituals - Guide the setup of daily stand-ups, demos, and single-threaded teams to maintain momentum.
- Apply scoping frameworks - Assist in cutting feature scope down to the most essential, marketable value to meet tight deadlines.
- Establish measurement systems - Set up the Core 4 metrics to track speed, quality, effectiveness, and impact simultaneously.
Core Principles
Ruthlessly cut feature scope
Gaurav Misra: "We take the design and we cut, cut, cut until we can really say that it's going to be useless if we cut anymore. We get that out and people come in."
Maintain momentum by slicing new features repeatedly until only the essential marketable value remains for a one-week deadline.
Isolate teams for single-threaded focus
Geoff Charles: "And I think the recipe for all this is constantly small teams have a single-threaded focus, give them the resources they need to execute big lofty goals, very tight timelines, and then shield them from the chaos that is the rest of the organization."
Protect development speed by shielding small teams from organizational overhead and task-switching.
Establish daily accountability rituals
Mayur Kamat: "We would pick a owner for something really urgent at the nightly leadership call. Then that owner would be expected to have all hands on deck for however long that problem is every single day and then report the updates on the daily call."
Use extreme leadership involvement and daily stand-ups to unblock decisions within 24 hours for high-stakes projects.
Prototype to test hypotheses early
Nan Yu: "What it really looks like is you have some rough time budget for how long you think something's going to take. By the time 10% of it has passed, after week one, you have something that works that tests some kind of key hypothesis internally."
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 96 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A fc9f07bc256c
shipping-velocity 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 1,479 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 2026-09-03.
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