founder-thought-leadership

founder-thought-leadership is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shawnpang/startup-founder-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,151 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A content strategy for building a founder’s public reputation and original ideas on Twitter/X or LinkedIn.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing past posts, defining recurring topics, and creating content from the founder’s experience and viewpoints.
Why use it?
It gives personal content a clear audience, subject area, and business purpose, such as attracting customers, hires, or investors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Reviewing past posts, defining recurring topics, and creating content from the founder’s experience and viewpoints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shawnpang/startup-founder-skills/founder-thought-leadership
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add shawnpang/startup-founder-skills --skill founder-thought-leadership
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 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,151 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 $0.00057 $0.01151
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00115

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4cf306b45272, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

founder-thought-leadership 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/founder-thought-leadership/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Founder Thought Leadership

When to Use

  • Founder wants to build a personal brand that drives pipeline, recruiting, or fundraising
  • Founder wants to establish IP (intellectual property in ideas, not legal) — original frameworks, contrarian takes, or proprietary insights
  • Founder wants to grow a relevant audience on X or LinkedIn
  • Founder wants to turn founder journey into content (building in public, lessons learned)

Context Required

  • Founder's area of expertise and unique perspective
  • Target audience (customers, investors, talent, peers)
  • Platform priority (X, LinkedIn, or both)
  • Current following size and engagement baseline
  • Company stage and what they're optimizing for (pipeline, recruiting, fundraising, awareness)

Workflow

  1. Define the founder's IP territory — identify 2-3 topics where the founder has genuine, earned insight that others don't. These must pass the "why should anyone listen to YOU on this?" test.
  2. Audit existing content — review the founder's last 20 posts on each platform. Identify what got traction, what fell flat, and what's missing from their voice.
  3. Build the content system — create a repeatable framework:
    • Pillar posts (1-2/week): original frameworks, data, or contrarian takes that establish IP
    • Proof posts (2-3/week): behind-the-scenes, customer wins, lessons from failure, building in public
    • Engagement posts (daily): replies, quote tweets, threads on others' content
  4. Create the IP library — document the founder's original frameworks, mental models, and coined terms. These become the building blocks for all content.
  5. Write a 2-week content calendar — draft actual posts with platform-specific formatting.
  6. Set up the feedback loop — define which metrics to track (impressions, profile visits, inbound DMs, pipeline attributed to content).

Output Format

## Founder Thought Leadership Plan

### IP Territory
- Topic 1: [topic] — why you have authority here
- Topic 2: [topic] — why you have authority here

### Original Frameworks
- [Framework name]: [one-line description]
  - Origin story: [how you discovered/developed this]
  - Post format: [how to present it]

### Platform Strategy
**LinkedIn:** [posting cadence, format preference, audience]
**X/Twitter:** [posting cadence, format preference, audience]

### 2-Week Content Calendar
| Day | Platform | Type | Topic | Hook |
|-----|----------|------|-------|------|
| Mon | LinkedIn | Pillar | ... | ... |
| Tue | X | Proof | ... | ... |
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |

### Metrics to Track
- [metric]: [current baseline] → [30-day target]

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 12d ago First seen · 98 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 4cf306b45272

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founder-thought-leadership is a skill published in the GitHub repository shawnpang/startup-founder-skills (321 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,151 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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