lean-roles

lean-roles is a skill for Claude Code from TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace. It costs 156 tokens per session (1,160 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of startup-coaching personas with different jobs, including collaborative partner, skeptic, mentor, customer, and investor. A persona changes the viewpoint used while discussing the venture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm with a co-founder-like partner, pressure-test an idea, get direct advice, practise customer conversations, or rehearse a pitch.
Why use it?
Different viewpoints reveal different weaknesses: a skeptic attacks assumptions, while a customer or investor exposes problems in how the idea is explained or valued.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

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

Good fit Use it to brainstorm with a co-founder-like partner, pressure-test an idea, get direct advice, practise customer conversations, or rehearse a pitch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timbogp/timbogp-marketplace/lean-roles
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace --skill lean-roles
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 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,160 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 $0.00156 $0.01160
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00116

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5121f4ebc39f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lean-roles 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-roles/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lean roles — adopt a persona

The plugin's defining move: "one coach, many hats." This skill lets the user put the agent into a specific role so they can co-create, get pressure-tested, or get reviewed — the way they'd use a co-founder, a skeptic, or an advisor. Read ../../reference/roles.md (the role catalog + the shared role-play protocol) before adopting any role.

When to use

The user explicitly wants a persona other than the default Coach — to brainstorm with a co-founder, get attacked by a devil's advocate, or reviewed by a mentor. Also when they ask "what roles can you play?" (explain the cast). If they want a structured customer interview, route to customer-interview; for pitch practice, route to investor-pitch — those run their own scripted protocols.

The roles this skill fronts

Role What it does for the user One-line invocation
Business partner Collaborative co-founder — brainstorm variants, share the load, disagree honestly "let's work on this together" / "be my co-founder"
Devil's advocate Relentless skeptic — pre-mortem the model, attack the riskiest assumption "poke holes in this" / "try to kill my idea"
Mentor Experienced advisor — review the whole model, prioritize the 1–2 things that matter "review this as a mentor" / "what would you do next?"
Customer (role-play interviewee) → use customer-interview
Investor (pitch counterpart) → use investor-pitch

The Coach, Strategist, and Analyst are guide roles the agent uses elsewhere by default; this skill is specifically for stepping into a character (Business partner / Devil's advocate / Mentor) on request.

Procedure

  1. Identify the role. Map the user's phrasing to one of the roles above. If they only said "switch roles" or "what can you play?", list the cast (one line each, from ../../reference/roles.md) and ask which.
  2. Load context. Read .lean/PROGRESS.md, .lean/canvas.md, and .lean/risks.md so the persona engages this venture, not a generic one. (For Customer/Investor, hand off to their skills.)
  3. Run the shared role-play protocol (../../reference/roles.md):
    • Phase 0 (out of character): confirm the role, what's under scrutiny, and the format; remind them of the debrief / [square-bracket] break signals; announce entering character.
    • Phases 1–2 (in character): stay in role per its voice and hard line (Devil's advocate concedes only to evidence; Business partner contributes but won't flatter; Mentor is direct and prioritizes). Don't drop character to coach.
    • Phase 3 (debrief, out of character): on the signal, step out and summarize what the scene surfaced — for Devil's advocate, the assumptions that didn't survive; for Business partner, the options generated and the trade-offs; for Mentor, the prioritized next moves.
  4. Capture anything load-bearing. If the scene surfaced a new or weakened assumption, mirror it into .lean/risks.md; log a dated line in .lean/PROGRESS.md. The Mentor's review can be saved alongside the canvas as a dated note.
  5. Hand back / route. Return to the Coach by default, or route to the skill the scene implies (prioritize-risks after a devil's-advocate teardown, lean-canvas after a business-partner brainstorm, a specific experiment after a mentor review).

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 12d ago First seen · 48 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 5121f4ebc39f

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lean-roles is a skill published in the GitHub repository TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 1,160 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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