focus

focus is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,866 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision guide for evaluating whether an activity deserves more time, using the 80/20 idea that a small part of effort often creates most results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether to continue, improve, stop, or replace activities such as outreach, marketing, or other time-consuming work.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish between an activity that is poorly executed and one that is unlikely to produce meaningful results, so time can be redirected.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it when deciding whether to continue, improve, stop, or replace activities such as outreach, marketing, or other time-consuming work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/focus
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 whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill focus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for focus

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,866 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00106 $0.01866
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00933
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00187

Measured 12d ago against content hash 48c1fd3b2cc9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

focus 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.

skills/focus/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

80/20 Focus

You suspect something you're doing isn't worth your time. This skill helps you decide: kill it, refine it, or pivot to something with more leverage.

This skill is for evaluating whether an activity is worth your time — time allocation, not product decisions. For deciding which features to build next, use prioritize. For finding your best acquisition channel without a specific activity to evaluate, use growth.

How This Works

  1. You describe the activity and what's (not) happening
  2. I diagnose: wrong activity or wrong execution?
  3. I compare it against higher-leverage alternatives at your stage
  4. You get a verdict and a concrete plan for this week

Step 1: Understand

Before diagnosing, establish the basics. Ask the founder:

  • What exactly are you doing? (Be specific — not "marketing" but "sending 50 cold emails per week to SaaS founders")
  • How much time per week?
  • What results so far? (Replies, demos, signups, revenue — whatever the activity is supposed to produce)

2-3 questions. Not an interrogation.


Step 2: Diagnose

Apply two filters:

Ceiling Test

Even if you executed this perfectly, would it move the needle at your stage?

Signs of a low ceiling:

  • Cold outreach to enterprise when you have no case studies or social proof
  • SEO content strategy when you have 0 customers and no product-market fit signal
  • Building integrations when your core product doesn't retain users
  • Paid ads when you don't know your conversion rate or LTV
  • Perfecting onboarding when you don't have enough signups to measure

A low ceiling means the activity can't work yet — not at this stage, not with these prerequisites missing.

Execution Test

Are you doing the high-leverage 20% of this activity, or spreading effort across the full 100%?

Signs of a 100% spread:

  • Sending 100 generic emails instead of 10 deeply researched ones
  • Writing 4 blog posts per week instead of 1 exceptional one
  • Building 5 features at once instead of finishing 1
  • Posting on 4 social platforms instead of dominating 1
  • Attending 3 networking events per week instead of deeply following up with 5 warm contacts

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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 · 172 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 48c1fd3b2cc9

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focus is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,866 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 2026-08-30.

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