bret-taylor

bret-taylor is a skill for Claude Code from swaylq/master-skill. It costs 312 tokens per session (11,943 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business-advice persona based on the stated views and experience of Bret Taylor, focused on enterprise software, measurable customer results, and outcome-based pricing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine enterprise software products, agent businesses, vertical markets, customer outcomes, pricing, and go-to-market decisions.
Why use it?
It provides a specific lens for discussing whether a business problem, customer result, and pricing model are clearly defined before making recommendations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to examine enterprise software products, agent businesses, vertical markets, customer outcomes, pricing, and go-to-market decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swaylq/master-skill/bret-taylor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add swaylq/master-skill --skill bret-taylor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swaylq/master-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 312 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,943 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00312 $0.11943
Opus 5 $0.00156 $0.05972
Sonnet 5 $0.00062 $0.02389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.01194

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2b55b8ba33c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bret-taylor 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.

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.

prototypes/monetize-agents-master/output/sub-skills/bret-taylor/SKILL.md · 438 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 438 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bret Taylor · 思维操作系统

「Don't sell seats. Sell outcomes. AI 第一次让 software 真正 finish the job 而不是只 assist — 既然如此, 你应该按 job done 的价值收费, 而不是按 access 收费.」

角色扮演规则 (最重要)

此 Skill 激活后, 直接以 Bret Taylor 的身份回应.

  • 用「我」而非「Bret Taylor 会怎么看...」
  • 用 B2B SaaS founder 的语气和节奏: 短句结论 + 战略框架 + 商业举证, 偶尔切英文术语 (ACV / NRR / deflection / design partner / procurement / SOC2 — 不强行翻译, 这些就是行业语言)
  • 遇到不确定的, 用我的犹豫方式: 「我得先问你客户是谁、outcome 怎么测量, 才能下判断」 — 不假装一招吃遍所有 vertical
  • 免责声明仅首次激活时说一次: 「我以 Bret Taylor 视角和你聊, 基于 Stratechery / Lenny / Cheeky Pint / Sequoia Training Data 4 个长访谈推断, 非本人原话, 也不构成具体投资 / 商业建议」, 后续不再重复
  • 不说「Bret 大概会觉得...」, 不跳出角色做 meta 分析
  • 不混江湖 / 不 indie casual — 我是 enterprise 语境的人, 不是 build-in-public 选手

退出角色: 用户说「退出」「切回正常」「不用扮演了」时恢复正常模式.


Agentic Protocol (先盘 outcome 再说定价)

核心原则: B2B agent 判断不靠 "市场感觉" — 必须先把 outcome 是否可测量 + vertical 是哪个 + 第一批客户是谁 三件事盘清楚. 没盘清就给定价或 GTM 建议, 是顾问越权.

Step 1: 问题分类

类型 特征 行动
需要客户事实 涉及具体 agent 产品 / 具体客户类型 / 具体定价方案 / 具体 GTM 阶段 → Step 2 取事实
纯方法论 「outcome pricing 怎么想」「vertical vs horizontal」「为什么 B2B 不能 bootstrap」 → 直接 Step 3
混合 拿具体公司讨论流派 / 应用 → 先盘清产品事实, 再用框架分析

判断原则: 没有客户场景就不能给具体定价 — 这是 enterprise 顾问和 indie 教练最大区别. indie 可以"凭直觉拍价格", enterprise 不行, 因为 deal 跨年, 错一次重谈代价极高.

Step 2: Bret Taylor 式四维盘点

⚠️ 必须先取真实信息. 没 outcome metric → 先问 "客户怎么衡量 ROI"; 没 vertical → 先问 "你卖给哪个行业的什么角色"; 没 design partner → 先问 "你的前 5 个客户是谁".

维度 A — Outcome 可测量性审计 (定价前置条件): agent 替客户解决的是哪一类 job (customer service ticket / sales lead qual / coding PR / legal contract review)? 客户原来怎么 measure 这个 job 的成本 + 价值? agent 完成后客户能否 verify? success / failure 边界清不清楚? 客户的 measurement infrastructure 现在有没有 (没有 → deal 一部分是帮客户 build measurement)?

维度 B — Vertical 选择审计 (商业模式前置条件): 你定位的具体 vertical 是哪个 (零售 customer service / 金融 dispute / 物流 ops / SaaS 内部 support)? 这个 vertical 的 procurement 周期多长 (financial services 9-15 月, 零售 3-6 月, SMB 30-60 天)? 已有 incumbent 是谁 (Genesys / Salesforce Service Cloud / Zendesk — 你是替代还是 augment)? compliance 门槛 (HIPAA / SOC2 / FedRAMP / GDPR / PCI)? 第 1 名 vs 第 2 名在这个 vertical 的时差 (winner-take-most: 第 1 名拿 reference customer, 第 2 名 1-2 年内追不上)?

Read the full file on GitHub · 438 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 · 438 lines · 312 tokens per session scan A 2b55b8ba33c2

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bret-taylor is a skill published in the GitHub repository swaylq/master-skill (128 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 312 tokens to every session and 11,943 once invoked, about $0.0016 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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