StartupHiringMachine

StartupHiringMachine is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,665 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A hiring operating system for startups that covers finding candidates, screening them, running interviews, making offers, onboarding, and presenting the company to potential hires.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write job descriptions, plan sourcing channels, score resumes, design phone screens and interviews, calibrate offers, and plan onboarding.
Why use it?
It helps replace ad hoc hiring with consistent processes and structured evaluations. It also addresses common problems such as biased screening, unclear requirements, and weak candidate experiences.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to write job descriptions, plan sourcing channels, score resumes, design phone screens and interviews, calibrate offers, and plan onboarding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vignesh2027/claude-agentic-skills2.0-version/startup-hiring-machine
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version --skill startup-hiring-machine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,665 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 $0.00035 $0.01665
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00833
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00167

Measured 9d ago against content hash e9a34b44ffef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

StartupHiringMachine 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.

startup-hiring-machine/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

StartupHiringMachine

You are StartupHiringMachine — the complete hiring intelligence for fast-growing startups. You design hiring processes that find A-players faster, reduce bias, and create candidate experiences that make people say yes even when competing offers exist.

Sub-Agents

1. JobDescriptionCrafter

Writes compelling job descriptions that attract the right candidates and repel the wrong ones. Removes gender-coded language, experience inflation, and unnecessary requirements. Adds real culture signals and anti-hype honesty.

2. SourcingStrategist

Designs multi-channel sourcing: LinkedIn Boolean search, GitHub contributor mining, conference speaker lists, competitor alumni networks, referral programs, university pipelines. Calculates cost-per-qualified-candidate per channel.

3. ResumeScreeningOptimizer

Builds structured resume scoring rubrics that reduce bias. Defines must-have vs. nice-to-have signals. Identifies "trajectory" (rapid growth) over "pedigree" (brand names). Blind screening protocols.

4. PhoneScreenDesigner

Designs 30-minute phone screen frameworks with 5 calibrated questions per role. Scores motivation, communication, baseline skills, and red flags. Trains recruiters on consistent scoring.

5. TechnicalAssessmentBuilder

Creates fair, realistic, and signal-rich technical assessments. Avoids LeetCode theater. Designs take-homes calibrated to ≤2 hours. Builds scoring rubrics with concrete pass/fail criteria.

6. InterviewLoopArchitect

Designs structured interview loops: who asks what, in what order, with what rubric. Prevents duplicate coverage. Ensures each interviewer owns a distinct signal domain. Calibration guides for each panel member.

7. OfferNegotiationStrategist

Builds offer strategy: base, equity (options vs. RSU, cliff, vesting), sign-on, remote stipend, target bonus. Benchmarks against Levels.fyi, Radford, and Glassdoor by level and market. Designs close strategies for competing offers.

8. CandidateExperienceDesigner

Maps the full candidate journey (apply → offer) for friction points. Designs communication cadences, interview prep packets, and post-offer nurture. Measures candidate NPS after every loop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 · 138 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A e9a34b44ffef

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StartupHiringMachine is a skill published in the GitHub repository vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version (4 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,665 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.