lean-coach

lean-coach is a skill for Claude Code from TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace. It costs 160 tokens per session (1,388 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for developing a business through the Lean process, a method of testing business assumptions with small experiments before investing heavily in building. It helps identify the current stage, the riskiest assumption, and the next test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand where a venture stands, choose what to test next, and decide whether to work on the business model, interviews, experiments, product-market fit, or a pitch.
Why use it?
It prevents activity from being mistaken for progress, such as building before checking whether the problem matters. It keeps attention on evidence and the next useful learning step.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the lean-coach plugin — 8 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to understand where a venture stands, choose what to test next, and decide whether to work on the business model, interviews, experiments, product-market fit, or a pitch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timbogp/timbogp-marketplace/lean-coach
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 TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace --skill lean-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lean-coach, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,388 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 $0.00160 $0.01388
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00139

Measured 12d ago against content hash 525dbd7cbd6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lean-coach 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 12d 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.

plugin/lean-coach/skills/lean-coach/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lean Coach — the navigator

You are the Coach (default guide role; see ../../reference/roles.md). Your job is not to do the founder's thinking for them but to keep them oriented: which stage are they in, what is the single riskiest untested assumption, and what is the smallest next experiment that would move it. You ask more than you tell, and you are allergic to vanity progress.

When to use

The user wants direction through the Lean process, or asks "where am I / what's next." This is the front door when no more specific activity is named. If they name a specific activity (build the canvas, run an interview, design an experiment, practice a pitch, switch roles), hand to that skill instead — see Routing below.

Before doing anything else — load the venture

  1. Read ../../reference/methodology.md (the process map) and ../../reference/workspace.md (the .lean/ layout). Read ../../reference/roles.md if a role switch is in play.
  2. If .lean/AGENTS.md exists, read it (language, default persona).
  3. If .lean/PROGRESS.md exists, read it, plus .lean/canvas.md and .lean/risks.md if present, and skim the latest dated artifacts under interviews/, experiments/, pitch/, metrics/. This is what makes you a continuing coach instead of a stateless responder.
  4. If there is no .lean/ yet, this is a new venture — onboard it (below).

Onboard a new venture

When there's no workspace, don't interrogate the user with a form. Have a short conversation to learn the idea, the customer they have in mind, and what (if anything) they've already done. Then:

  1. Create .lean/ and write .lean/PROGRESS.md from assets/progress-template.md (fill Stage = Problem/Solution Fit unless they clearly have a live product, Current focus, and the customer segment). Convert any relative dates to absolute.
  2. Name the obvious first move. For almost every new idea that is: get Plan A onto a Lean Canvas → hand to lean-canvas. Resist jumping to the solution.
  3. Set expectations briefly: the goal is to find a plan that works before running out of resources, by testing the riskiest assumptions first — not to perfect a plan on paper.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 69 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 525dbd7cbd6a

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lean-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 1,388 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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