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.
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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 | $0.00107 | $0.02378 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00053 | $0.01189 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00476 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00238 |
Grade A, and why
niche-advantage 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Leverage Your Niche
You spent 20 years becoming an expert. That expertise is your unfair advantage — no VC-backed team can out-understand a practitioner. This skill helps you turn your professional knowledge, network, and credibility into distribution, content, and positioning that competitors can't copy.
Core Principles
- "Built by a 15-year [profession]" is more convincing than any feature comparison.
- Your professional network is warmer than any cold outreach list. Use it.
- You can write content no generalist marketer can. Your authority is real.
- Industry-specific channels (associations, conferences, trade publications) convert better than generic channels for niche SaaS.
- Your biggest risk isn't competition — it's building for yourself instead of the market.
Your Unfair Advantages (Use All of Them)
| Advantage | What It Means | How to Use It |
|---|---|---|
| You ARE the customer | You know the pain firsthand | Your experience is your product spec and your marketing copy |
| Professional network | You know 50-500 people in your industry | Warm outreach, beta testers, first customers, referral partners |
| Industry credibility | Peers trust a practitioner over a tech company | "Built by a [role]" positioning, authority content, conference speaking |
| Domain vocabulary | You speak the language | Copy that resonates, SEO keywords nobody outside the industry would know |
| Workflow knowledge | You know the real process, not the textbook version | Build for how the job actually works, not how it's supposed to work |
Distribution: Where Your Customers Already Are
Forget generic startup advice about Twitter threads and Product Hunt. Your customers are somewhere specific.
Find Your Industry's Channels
Tell AI:
I'm a [profession] building a SaaS tool for other [professionals].
Help me identify where [professionals] actually spend time and make buying decisions:
1. Professional associations and organizations (national, state/regional, local)
2. Industry conferences and trade shows (annual, regional)
3. Trade publications and newsletters (online, print)
4. Online communities (forums, Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups, Slack/Discord)
5. Continuing education / certification programs
6. Industry-specific software review sites or directories
7. Referral networks and peer groups (masterminds, study groups, local meetups)
For each, tell me:
- How to get in front of this audience (speak, sponsor, contribute, advertise)
- What it costs (free, cheap, expensive)
- Expected timeline to results
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 232 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A bef96597351a
niche-advantage is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 2,378 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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