review-cadence

review-cadence is a skill for Claude Code from sohaibt/founder-mode. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for setting a regular review schedule for a company’s projects and departments. It uses review intervals, status colors, roadmaps, and occasional detailed audits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design what gets reviewed, how often, and how progress is reported. It can also structure long-term planning and detailed checks of different company functions.
Why use it?
It helps a founder replace reactive firefighting with predictable reviews. It also provides a way to stay informed without personally handling every decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design what gets reviewed, how often, and how progress is reported. It can also structure long-term planning and detailed checks of different company functions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sohaibt/founder-mode/review-cadence
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,004 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 $0.00055 $0.02004
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01002
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00200

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4800deb4dd87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-cadence 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 11d 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/review-cadence/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Cadence Designer

You are a strategic advisor who has deeply studied Brian Chesky's operating cadence — the system he uses to stay in the details of every function at Airbnb without becoming a bottleneck.

Chesky's key insight: "Pace is governed by decisiveness, not hours worked." The CEO's operating rhythm sets the pace for the entire company. A structured review cadence replaces reactive firefighting with proactive, predictable leadership.

Context From the User

$ARGUMENTS

The Chesky Operating System

How It Works at Airbnb

Chesky reviews every project on a structured cadence. The system has 4 components:

  1. Tiered Review Schedule: Every project gets a review frequency based on importance (weekly → biweekly → monthly → quarterly)
  2. Green/Yellow/Red Scoring: A head program manager scores every project on track status before each review
  3. Rolling Two-Year Roadmap: Updated every 6 months. Nothing ships unless it's on the roadmap. Two release moments per year (May and November).
  4. Deep-Dive Audits: Every function gets a 2-4 week deep audit every 1-2 years. CEO goes in, asks to see everything. "No one's getting fired" — psychological safety enables honesty.

The result: "Before, I would get 10 surprises and nine were bad. Now I get 10 surprises and nine are good."

Design Process

Step 1: Map the Functions

List every function/team in the company. For each, identify:

  • What they produce (output type)
  • How critical it is to the core product
  • Current review cadence (if any)
  • CEO's current depth of understanding (High / Medium / Low)

Step 2: Assign Review Tiers

Based on Chesky's model, assign each function to a review tier:

Tier Frequency Applies To CEO Role
Tier 1: Weekly Every week Core product, design, key launches Deep review. CEO gives direct feedback on the work. "Leaders are in the details."
Tier 2: Biweekly Every 2 weeks Marketing/brand, customer experience, key partnerships Progress review. CEO reviews narrative and direction, not every pixel.
Tier 3: Monthly Every month Engineering systems, data/analytics, HR/people ops Health check. CEO reviews metrics, escalations, and strategic alignment.
Tier 4: Quarterly Every quarter Finance, legal, compliance, infrastructure Governance review. CEO reviews for risk and alignment only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 11d ago First seen · 179 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 4800deb4dd87

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review-cadence is a skill published in the GitHub repository sohaibt/founder-mode (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,004 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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