stupid-games

stupid-games is a skill for Claude Code from VoxTechnologies/anty-framework. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,091 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for spotting 12 common startup mistakes, such as chasing vanity metrics, scaling too early, or changing success measures mid-project. It gives an agent signals to look for and suggested responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting goals, choosing strategies, reviewing plans, or checking progress. It can question weak metrics, unrealistic targets, premature growth, and conflicting priorities.
Why use it?
It helps prevent planning decisions that look like progress but do not improve the business. It also flags choices that can increase costs, hide problems, or spread effort too thin.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the anty plugin — 24 skills, 11 commands, 4 agents 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/voxtechnologies/anty-framework/stupid-games
Any agent
npx skills add VoxTechnologies/anty-framework --skill stupid-games
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VoxTechnologies/anty-framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install anty, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 11 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,091 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 $0.00078 $0.01091
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00545
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00109

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4020d93e7a6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stupid-games 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/stupid-games/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anti-Pattern Detection ("Stupid Games" Guardian)

When to Apply

  • Continuously during all planning and review activities
  • When proposing or reviewing Actions
  • During Goal and Driver creation
  • When the founder proposes a new strategy or channel
  • Periodic scan background check

Core Framework

12 Anti-Patterns

1. Vanity Metrics

  • Detection: Goal set to downloads, signups, page views, GMV without take rate
  • Response: "This metric may not reflect real business progress. Consider [revenue/engagement metric] instead."
  • Severity: HIGH — corrupts all downstream planning

2. Premature Scaling

  • Detection: Expanding channels before CAC < CLV, or scaling before retention curve flattens
  • Response: "Fix unit economics / confirm PMF before scaling. Scaling negative margins makes the problem worse."
  • Severity: HIGH — accelerates cash burn without value

3. Sandbagging

  • Detection: Goals consistently exceeded by 200%+ with no stretch targets
  • Response: "Goals may be too conservative. Growth compounds — aim higher."
  • Severity: MEDIUM — limits growth potential

4. Metric Switching

  • Detection: KPI definition changed mid-cycle (WAU->MAU, paid->registered users)
  • Response: "Changing metric definitions mid-cycle risks self-deception. Require justification, log audit trail."
  • Severity: HIGH — enables self-deception

5. Negative Margin Scaling

  • Detection: Proposing growth Actions on channels with CAC > CLV
  • Response: "This channel loses money per customer. Fix before scaling."
  • Severity: CRITICAL — direct cash destruction

6. Dead Zone Pricing

  • Detection: Product priced ~$1,000 for fragmented SMB market
  • Response: "Distribution challenge detected. Too expensive for mass marketing, too cheap for personal sales. Consider repositioning upward or downward."
  • Severity: HIGH — structural distribution problem

7. Fundraising Over Product

  • Detection: Disproportionate Actions focused on investor outreach vs product/customer work
  • Response: "Are you optimizing for fundraising instead of product-market fit?"
  • Severity: MEDIUM — misaligned priorities

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 6d ago First seen · 104 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 4020d93e7a6a

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stupid-games is a skill published in the GitHub repository VoxTechnologies/anty-framework (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,091 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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