solo-failures

solo-failures is a skill for Claude Code from yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook. It costs 34 tokens per session (810 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A skill for examining why startups fail, using failure patterns and anti-patterns backed by data from 101 founder interviews. An anti-pattern is a recurring approach that tends to cause problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for identifying likely failure modes and choosing ways to avoid them.
Why use it?
It helps founders spot common risks instead of repeating mistakes that have affected other startups.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the solo-founder-playbook plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for identifying likely failure modes and choosing ways to avoid them.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for solo-failures

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 solo-failures

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 810 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 unknown 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 $0.00034 $0.00810
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00405
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4d9d64b3f4b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

solo-failures 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/solo-failures/SKILL.md · 56 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 56 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 4d9d64b3f4b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

solo-failures is a skill published in the GitHub repository yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook (25 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 810 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 2026-08-30.

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