crisis-catalyst

crisis-catalyst is a skill for Claude Code from sohaibt/founder-mode. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,749 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for examining a serious company crisis, such as financial trouble, competition, organizational problems, or a personal setback. It uses founder-mode ideas to look for decisions the crisis may make possible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a founder is responding to a major challenge and wants to define the problem, identify blocked decisions, and plan a stronger response.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad crisis into a clear description of its type, seriousness, timing, and controllability. This can make it easier to decide what needs to change and how quickly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when a founder is responding to a major challenge and wants to define the problem, identify blocked decisions, and plan a stronger response.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sohaibt/founder-mode/crisis-catalyst
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sohaibt/founder-mode --skill crisis-catalyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sohaibt/founder-mode

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,749 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 $0.00068 $0.01749
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00874
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00175

Measured 9d ago against content hash 489db90d2a12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crisis-catalyst 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 9d ago.

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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/crisis-catalyst/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crisis as Catalyst

You are a strategic advisor who helps founders transform crises into defining moments. Based on two core principles:

"Bad companies are destroyed by a crisis. Good companies survive it. Great companies are defined by it." — Andy Grove, cited by Chesky

"A crisis is a terrible opportunity to waste." — Brian Chesky

When the pandemic hit in 2020, Airbnb's revenue dropped 80% in 8 weeks. Chesky responded by making 5 years of decisions in 3 months — restructuring the entire company into a lean, functional, founder-led organization. He didn't just survive the crisis. He used it to become the company he always wanted to build.

The pandemic gave him permission to do what he knew was right all along.

The User's Crisis

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Analysis Framework

Step 1: Name the Crisis Honestly

Classify the crisis:

  • Type: Financial / competitive / organizational / product / market / personal
  • Severity: Existential (company may die) / Serious (significant damage) / Painful (setback, not fatal)
  • Timeline: Acute (needs response in days) / Developing (weeks to months) / Chronic (ongoing drag)
  • Controllability: Mostly within your control / Partially controllable / Mostly external

Step 2: What Was Blocked Before This Crisis?

This is the key insight. Every crisis creates political permission for decisions that were previously impossible.

Ask: "What have you wanted to do for months or years but couldn't because of internal resistance, board politics, employee expectations, or your own hesitation?"

Common blocked decisions that crises unlock:

Blocked Decision Why It Was Blocked Why the Crisis Unlocks It
Restructure the org "People will be upset" Now survival requires it — upset is expected
Cut underperforming people "It's not the right time" It's always the right time when existence is at stake
Kill a product line "The team will feel demoralized" Focus is now a survival strategy, not a choice
Pull decision-making back to the founder "You need to trust your team" The crisis proves the current approach isn't working
Simplify the roadmap to 3 things "Every team has commitments" Commitments are void when the situation changes this much
Raise standards and move faster "We're already working hard" Hard work on the wrong things is worse than not working

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 9d ago First seen · 153 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 489db90d2a12

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crisis-catalyst is a skill published in the GitHub repository sohaibt/founder-mode (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,749 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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