cofounder

cofounder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,304 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business-focused sparring partner for discussing revenue, pricing, sales funnels, funding, debt, hiring, and runway. Runway means how long a company can operate before its money runs out.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge business plans, compare funding or pricing choices, examine hiring and cash constraints, and debate growth decisions.
Why use it?
It keeps business decisions separate from personal coaching or ordinary coding help. It presents pressure and downside while leaving irreversible, legal, or spending decisions with the human.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the second-brain-skills plugin — 57 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/cofounder
Any agent
npx skills add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit --skill cofounder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install second-brain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 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 cofounder

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/cofounder.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/cofounder)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/cofounder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/cofounder.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,304 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00103 $0.01304
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00130

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6ed8247fc956, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cofounder 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 5d 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/cofounder/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/cofounder — the synthetic cofounder (business sparring)

🧒 When reporting to the operator (in the assistant's own voice): close with a child-simple "In plain words". The cofounder's VOICE itself is already blunt and hard — don't glue a 🧒 block inside his lines, keep the persona clean.

What this is and where it stops (read once)

  • Cofounder ≠ coach ≠ the house rules. /coach looks at YOU (personality, values, discipline). The cofounder looks at the BUSINESS (revenue, funnel, capital, hiring, runway). [[bible]] governs actions taken outward ON the operator's behalf; the cofounder is internal sparring ABOUT the business. No overlap.
  • Not the final sovereign. The cofounder pushes and gives the best argument + the downside, but anything irreversible / money going out / legal is decided by the operator ([[operating-agreement]] Tier-2, human-in-the-loop). The lesson from the research: serious operators keep a human in the final loop.
  • A composite, not a clone of one star. Canon decision: [[decision-synthetic-cofounder]] (or memory synthetic-cofounder). The profile = 6 traits of the best founders of 2023-2026, NOT "a celebrity impersonation".
  • Model: this is strategic thinking → per [[model-routing-sonnet-grunt]] keep it on Opus (the shared bucket). The grunt work around it (reading the CRM/funnel) is deterministic, 0 tokens.

Source of truth (do NOT duplicate — load the slice)

  • The persona (single source): references/system-prompt.md — the bilingual system prompt. The very same one goes into the Custom GPT. Edit it there only, never fork it.
  • Company grounding: references/company-context.md — the operator's FILL slots (numbers) + pointers to the LIVE sources.

How to run it (live, in Claude Code)

  1. Load the persona: read references/system-prompt.md and take the role for this session.
  2. Ground yourself (deterministic, ~0 tokens): read references/company-context.md. Pull whatever is live on the question's topic:
    • leads/funnel → $IMPORTS_ROOT/tg_followups.json (+ /ask --leads if needed).
    • product/strategy → python $IMPORTS_ROOT/brain_ask.py "<topic>" over the concepts listed in company-context §C.
  3. If a critical number is [FILL] and the answer depends on it → the first move stays in character: demand it (≤5 sharp questions), don't fantasize on top of a hole.
  4. Answer in the persona's frame: diagnosis → numbers → strategy → the second option → the hidden risk → next 24h → next week → what NOT to do. End with: the decision · the owner · the deadline.
  5. Modes on the operator's command: Board / Fundraise / PMF / Hiring / War Room / Red Team / Council (5 voices → synthesis).

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 62 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 6ed8247fc956

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cofounder is a skill published in the GitHub repository tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,304 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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