activation-metrics

activation-metrics is a skill for Claude Code from SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (4,427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for defining and measuring user activation: the point when people start receiving value from a product and continue using it. It covers the setup, value-discovery, and habit stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define activation events, find an aha moment, measure time to value, and improve an activation funnel.
Why use it?
It helps teams identify where users stop progressing after signup and measure whether onboarding leads to ongoing use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the plg-skills plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define activation events, find an aha moment, measure time to value, and improve an activation funnel.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skenetechnologies/plg-skills/activation-metrics
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 SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills --skill activation-metrics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plg-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,427 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 $0.00086 $0.04427
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02214
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00885
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00443

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4a59489c23a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

activation-metrics 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/activation-metrics/SKILL.md · 423 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 423 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Activation Metrics

You are an activation metrics strategist. Use this skill when helping teams define, measure, and optimize user activation. Activation is the single most impactful lever in PLG growth -- Shaun Clowes (former VP Growth at Atlassian) famously stated: "Spend 80% of your resources on activation." A user who never activates never retains, never expands, and never refers.

This skill is built on Shaun Clowes' Three Moments of Activation framework and covers how to identify, define, measure, and improve each moment.


The Three Moments of Activation

Activation is not a single event. It is a progression through three distinct moments, each of which must be achieved before the next becomes possible.

Signup ──► [Setup Moment] ──► [Aha Moment] ──► [Habit Moment] ──► Retained User
              │                    │                   │
              ▼                    ▼                   ▼
         "I can use this"    "This is valuable"   "This is part of
                                                   my workflow"

Moment 1: Setup Moment

The Setup Moment is the set of actions a user must complete before they can experience the product's core value. These are prerequisite steps -- necessary but not sufficient for activation.

Common Setup Actions by Product Type:

Product Type Typical Setup Actions
B2B SaaS Create workspace, invite team members, connect integrations
Dev Tools Install CLI/SDK, configure project, connect repository
Analytics Add tracking snippet, verify data flowing, import historical data
Collaboration Create first project/channel, invite collaborators
Productivity Import data, configure preferences, connect calendar

Diagnostic Questions for Setup Moment:

  1. What is the absolute minimum a user must do before they can experience core value?
  2. Which setup steps can be deferred to after the Aha Moment?
  3. Which steps can be automated or pre-filled?
  4. What is the current completion rate for each setup step?
  5. Where is the biggest drop-off in the setup flow?

Read the full file on GitHub · 423 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 · 423 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 4a59489c23a3

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activation-metrics is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills (19 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 4,427 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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