launch-and-growth

launch-and-growth is a skill for Claude Code from the-open-agent/oss-skills. It costs 108 tokens per session (2,044 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for launching and growing an open-source project. It covers announcements, release planning, GitHub discoverability, and checking that the README and installation work for new users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare Hacker News, Reddit, Product Hunt, blog, or release announcements and improve a project’s GitHub presentation.
Why use it?
It provides checks and practical guidance for reaching the right audience after the project is ready.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the oss-skills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare Hacker News, Reddit, Product Hunt, blog, or release announcements and improve a project’s GitHub presentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-open-agent/oss-skills/launch-and-growth
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add the-open-agent/oss-skills --skill launch-and-growth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-open-agent/oss-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oss-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for launch-and-growth

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,044 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 $0.00108 $0.02044
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.01022
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00204

Measured 11d ago against content hash c6d6b2e946a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

launch-and-growth 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.

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/launch-and-growth/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Launch and Growth

Distribution is a real problem and ignoring it is not humility. But launches amplify; they do not create. A launch sends a burst of traffic to whatever you have built — if the README is confusing or the install is broken, you have spent your one shot at those people's attention converting them into non-users.

Launch readiness

Do not announce until every one of these is true. Post-launch fixes reach nobody.

[ ] README passes the 30-second test (readme-that-converts)
[ ] Install command verified in a clean container, today
[ ] Quickstart produces a working result in under 5 minutes
[ ] A hero: screenshot, GIF, or a code sample under 10 lines
[ ] LICENSE present and declared in the manifest
[ ] A tagged release exists — not just a main branch
[ ] CI green, badge visible
[ ] Issue templates enabled
[ ] GitHub About: one-liner, link, topics
[ ] Social preview image set (Settings → Social preview)
[ ] You have 4+ uninterrupted hours to answer comments
[ ] Someone other than you has run the quickstart successfully

That last item catches more problems than the rest combined. Watch them do it without helping — every question they ask out loud is a README fix.

Also, honestly: is it ready for strangers? Launching something half-finished burns the audience you will want later. There is no penalty for launching two months late and a real one for launching two months early.

GitHub discoverability

Free, permanent, and consistently neglected:

  • Topics — up to 20; use them. This is how GitHub's own search and "explore" surface you. Include the language, the domain, and the category (rust, cli, static-analysis, developer-tools).
  • About — the one-liner and the docs URL. It is what shows in search results.
  • Social preview image — controls what appears when your link is shared anywhere. Without it you get a generic gray card, which measurably reduces clicks. Project name + one-liner on a solid background is enough.
  • Pinned repos on your profile and org.
  • Releases — GitHub surfaces them, and package registries link back.
  • A <name>-awesome-list submission in your ecosystem's awesome list — small, durable traffic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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 · 160 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A c6d6b2e946a0

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launch-and-growth is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-open-agent/oss-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 2,044 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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