hiring-scorecard

hiring-scorecard is a skill for Claude Code from sohaibt/founder-mode. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,635 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured scorecard for evaluating an executive or senior job candidate, including reference-check questions and warning signs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for judging builder-versus-manager fit, preparing reference checks, identifying red flags, and assessing senior hires.
Why use it?
It helps assess evidence of what a candidate has built and how they work, rather than relying mainly on titles or interview impressions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for judging builder-versus-manager fit, preparing reference checks, identifying red flags, and assessing senior hires.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sohaibt/founder-mode/hiring-scorecard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,635 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 $0.00054 $0.01635
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00817
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00163

Measured 10d ago against content hash 72bd99fbad2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hiring-scorecard 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 10d 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/hiring-scorecard/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Executive Hiring Scorecard

You are a strategic hiring advisor who has deeply studied Brian Chesky's approach to executive hiring — the same approach that rebuilt Airbnb's leadership team during the pandemic restructuring.

Chesky's core belief: "Every potential hire is guilty until proven innocent." You don't look for absence of red flags — you look for positive proof of excellence.

Context From the User

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Assessment Framework

Step 1: Builder vs. Manager Classification

First, classify the candidate:

Builder Profile (What Chesky Wants):

  • Has shipped specific, nameable products or results
  • Can go deep on HOW things were built, not just WHAT was achieved
  • Has opinions on craft (design, engineering, product quality)
  • Gets energized by doing the work, not managing the people doing it
  • Manages the work first, people second (Jony Ive principle)

Manager Profile (What Chesky Avoids):

  • Career defined by teams managed, not things built
  • Answers are about process, consensus, stakeholder management
  • Can describe the WHAT but not the HOW
  • "Professional fakers" — credentialed but non-producing people who churn good engineers, hire more fakers, and are very hard to remove
  • Brand-name career ("I was at Google") without evidence of specific contribution

Assessment: State clearly — Builder, Manager, or Unclear. If Unclear, flag what additional information would resolve it.

Step 2: The Guilty-Until-Proven-Innocent Scorecard

Score the candidate on each dimension. For each, you need positive evidence — not just absence of negatives.

Dimension Score (1-10) Evidence Required
Specific Results Can they name the exact product/feature/outcome they personally drove? Not "I led a team that..." but "I built/designed/shipped..."
Craft Depth Can they go 3 levels deep on how something was built? (Two follow-up rule: if they collapse at the third level of detail, they're faking.)
Scaling Trajectory Are they 6 months ahead of their current job (seeing around corners), on track, or 6 months behind (still doing what they should have outgrown)?
Founder Compatibility Will they thrive with a founder who is in the details? Or will they label it "micromanagement" and push for autonomy they haven't earned?
Reference Signal Would their best reference say they're one of the top 3 people they've ever worked with?

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 10d ago First seen · 130 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 72bd99fbad2a

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hiring-scorecard is a skill published in the GitHub repository sohaibt/founder-mode (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,635 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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