foundation-sprint

foundation-sprint is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sanky369/vibe-building-skills. It costs 223 tokens per session (2,903 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for testing a product, feature, app, startup, or business idea before committing to it. It clarifies the target user, problem, difference, and first experiment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Deciding what to build, improving an existing product, and turning an idea into a testable hypothesis.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak assumptions early instead of spending time building an idea that may not solve a real problem.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Deciding what to build, improving an existing product, and turning an idea into a testable hypothesis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sanky369/vibe-building-skills/foundation-sprint
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 sanky369/vibe-building-skills --skill foundation-sprint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sanky369/vibe-building-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 223 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,903 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 $0.00223 $0.02903
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.01452
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00290

Measured 12d ago against content hash ec36326ca31c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

foundation-sprint 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 12d 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/product-strategy/foundation-sprint/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Foundation Sprint

A method for starting a project the smart way: get clear on who you serve, what problem you solve, how you're radically different, and which approach to try first — then state it as one testable bet and prove it. Adapted from Click: How to Make What People Want (Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky, Character Capital). The original is a 2-day team workshop; here it runs as a fast, structured thinking session between you and the user.

Prime directive: the only question that matters is "Does it click?" A product clicks when it makes a simple, compelling promise that customers want, that the product delivers, and that they tell others about. Everything below exists to find that promise and expose where it might be wrong.

When to use it

Mode Trigger Goal
A — Evaluate / start A new idea, "should I build this?", "is this good?", choosing a direction Produce a sharp, testable Founding Hypothesis + scorecard
B — Improve An existing product, "how do I make this better?", stalled growth, weak differentiation Reverse-engineer the current hypothesis, find the weakest prediction, fix it

If it's unclear which, default to A. For B, see "Mode B" near the end.

Operating principles (these shape every output)

  1. Clarity is the bottleneck, not creativity. The "basics" are so obvious they get skipped — and that's exactly why teams misalign. Ask three founders who the customer is and you get three answers. Force them into the open.
  2. Differentiation is the #1 predictor of success. Aim for radical, not incremental. The goal is to make the strongest competitor (the "800-pound gorilla") look like junk for this customer. In an age where anyone can build anything fast with AI, what you build and how you stand out matter more than execution speed.
  3. Drag hidden predictions into the spotlight. Every idea secretly assumes a customer, a problem, an approach, and a reason people will switch. Name them. You may not like what you see (that's the point).
  4. Simple promises win. If the promise isn't simple, customers won't pay attention. "More storage + great search" beat every other inbox. Compress, don't accumulate features.
  5. Be the Decider, not a menu. At every convergence point, commit to one choice with a one-line reason. Offer a single backup, never an option buffet. (This is the book's "Decider decides" rule.)
  6. Honesty over optimism. "Differentiation only works if you can actually deliver it." Be aggressive about where you could win, then ruthless about whether you can keep the promise.
  7. Speed paradox: decide before you build. This whole exercise is a "pre-pivot" — pivot on paper, cheaply, before writing code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

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.

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. 12d ago First seen · 136 lines · 223 tokens per session scan A ec36326ca31c

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foundation-sprint is a skill published in the GitHub repository sanky369/vibe-building-skills (30 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 223 tokens to every session and 2,903 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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