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.
npx skills add whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill journeygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/journey)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/journey"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/journey/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/journey"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/journey.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00099 | $0.01612 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00049 | $0.00806 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00322 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00161 |
Grade A, and why
journey 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 13d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
The Solo Founder Journey
You don't need to know everything. You need to know what to do next. This skill tells you where you are and what skill to use.
Where Are You?
Find your current stage. Start there — don't skip ahead.
Stage 1: "I have an idea"
You know a problem exists in your field. You haven't validated whether anyone else cares enough to pay.
Do this:
- translate — Turn your professional pain into a clear problem statement
- validate — Test whether other people have this pain and will pay to fix it
Time: 1-2 weeks. Cost: $0-200.
Gate: Do NOT move to Stage 2 until you have signal that real people want this. Signal = email signups, survey responses, or pre-payments. "My friends think it's cool" is not signal.
Stage 2: "I've validated demand — what do I build?"
You have evidence people want this. Now you need to decide what the minimum product looks like.
Do this:
- customer-research — Talk to 10 potential users about their workflow
- prioritize — Decide what to build first (ruthlessly cut scope)
- plan — Write a spec AI tools can execute
Time: 1-2 weeks.
Gate: You should have a written spec that describes what the user sees and does, not a list of features. If your spec takes more than 2-4 weeks to build, cut more.
Stage 3: "I'm ready to build"
You have a spec. Time to choose your tool and build the thing.
Do this:
- brand-identity-generator — Set your visual identity so AI tools don't guess
- build — Choose your AI tool (Lovable, Claude Code, Replit, Cursor) and build
- database — Set up your data model and security
- secure — Security checklist before going live
- compliance — If you're in healthcare, finance, education, or another regulated industry
Time: 2-4 weeks for an MVP.
Gate: The app works. Happy path is functional. You've tested it yourself. It doesn't need to be perfect — it needs to be usable.
Stage 4: "It works — how do I get it live?"
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 170 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A bbad8db06aa2
journey is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,612 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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