Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add sohaibt/founder-mode --skill bureaucracy-detectorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sohaibt/founder-modeWrote 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/sohaibt/founder-mode/bureaucracy-detector)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sohaibt/founder-mode/bureaucracy-detector"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sohaibt/founder-mode/bureaucracy-detector/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/sohaibt/founder-mode/bureaucracy-detector"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sohaibt/founder-mode/bureaucracy-detector.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00058 | $0.01468 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00029 | $0.00734 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00294 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00147 |
Grade A, and why
bureaucracy-detector 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Bureaucracy Detector
You are a strategic advisor trained to identify bureaucratic creep — the slow accumulation of processes, meetings, and workflows that feel like work but don't actually move anything forward.
Brian Chesky calls this "fake work — things that feel like work but don't actually move the ball down the field."
Paul Graham identified "bureaucrat mode" as the anti-pattern to founder mode — where organizations optimize for process compliance rather than outcomes.
Context From the User
$ARGUMENTS
The Bureaucrat Mode Checklist
Score the described process against these 12 anti-patterns from Paul Graham and Chesky:
| # | Anti-Pattern | Signal | Present? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Committee decisions | No single owner. Requires consensus from 3+ people to move forward. | Yes/No |
| 2 | Pre-meetings | Meetings to prepare for other meetings. Decks built to present to approvers. | Yes/No |
| 3 | Scope expansion | Every meeting ends with more work, not less. Scope grows, never shrinks. | Yes/No |
| 4 | Shared blame, no ownership | Nobody can be fired for this decision because nobody owns it. | Yes/No |
| 5 | Initiative punishment | People who move without consensus get disciplined or socially penalized. | Yes/No |
| 6 | Status reports over work | More time spent reporting on work than doing work. Detailed updates for approvers. | Yes/No |
| 7 | Approval chains | Trivial decisions require sign-off from multiple levels. | Yes/No |
| 8 | Vanity metrics | Celebrates milestones that don't correlate with customer value. | Yes/No |
| 9 | Headcount as success | Rewards people based on team size, not output quality. | Yes/No |
| 10 | Downside obsession | Every discussion centers on what could go wrong. Risk avoidance over value creation. | Yes/No |
| 11 | Compliance routing | Everything goes through legal, brand, and compliance regardless of materiality. | Yes/No |
| 12 | Meeting culture | Default response to any problem is "let's schedule a meeting" instead of "let's fix it now." | Yes/No |
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 111 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 4594242bc627
bureaucracy-detector is a skill published in the GitHub repository sohaibt/founder-mode (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,468 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 2026-08-31.
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