board-update

board-update is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shawnpang/startup-founder-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,186 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for preparing investor updates, board presentations, and other company progress reports for stakeholders such as investors and board members.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft monthly investor emails, quarterly board decks, condensed progress updates, fundraising materials, or urgent communications about important events.
Why use it?
It helps founders choose an appropriate format and present company results, problems, metrics, and decisions clearly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to draft monthly investor emails, quarterly board decks, condensed progress updates, fundraising materials, or urgent communications about important events.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shawnpang/startup-founder-skills/board-update
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add shawnpang/startup-founder-skills --skill board-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shawnpang/startup-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,186 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 $0.00028 $0.02186
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01093
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00219

Measured 11d ago against content hash 465b05ef4217, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

board-update 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/board-update/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Board Update

When to Use

Activate when a founder needs to draft an investor update email, prepare a board meeting deck, or write a quarterly business review. This includes prompts like "write my monthly investor update," "prepare for our board meeting," "draft a quarterly recap," or "how do I communicate bad news to the board." Also activate for fundraising decks where market and vision framing is needed.

Context Required

  • From startup-context: company stage, fundraising history, board composition, key metrics (MRR, burn, runway, headcount), current strategic priorities, and previous update cadence.
  • From the user: reporting period, key wins and losses, metric changes, specific topics requiring board input or approval, any sensitive issues to address, and whether this is an email update or a slide deck.

Workflow

  1. Determine format and cadence — Monthly email update (standard for seed/Series A, under 800 words), quarterly board deck (Series A onward, 20-30 slides, sent as pre-read 48 hours ahead), monthly condensed deck (8-12 slides), or ad-hoc update (one page, one topic, sent immediately for material events). Default to monthly email for early-stage.
  2. Collect the 11 sections — Walk through each section of the framework below. Each section has a designated C-suite owner. For each, apply the "Headline - Data - Narrative - Ask/Next" structure.
  3. Lead with the headline — Write a 1-3 sentence executive summary that captures the single most important takeaway. Boards see 10+ decks per quarter. Surface key messages by slide three. Some investors read only the summary.
  4. Apply the bad-news protocol — If any section contains negative developments, use the transparent delivery framework. Never bury bad news. Boards find out eventually. Finding out late makes it worse.
  5. Add specific asks — Every update ends with concrete, actionable requests. Name the person if possible. Investors who cannot help you cannot add value.
  6. Format for scanability — Investors spend 3-5 minutes on updates. Bold key numbers, use tables for metrics, keep paragraphs to 2-3 sentences. Cap metrics dashboards at 6-8 KPIs with targets and status.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 · 138 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 465b05ef4217

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board-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository shawnpang/startup-founder-skills (321 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,186 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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