Agent skill

Founder Report

by acogood in acogood/diffmode_free

Founder-report packaging stage for the Diffmode growth-tactics pipeline — the post-gate step that turns the APPROVED synthesis.md (a reviewer-facing working paper) into growth-tactics.md, the…

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Founder Report

skills CLI
$ npx skills add acogood/diffmode_free --skill founder-report -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install acogood/diffmode_free founder-report --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acogood/diffmode_free.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugin/skills/founder-report .claude/skills/founder-report && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
founder-report
GitHub stars
163
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,112 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Founder-report packaging stage for the Diffmode growth-tactics pipeline — the post-gate step that turns the APPROVED synthesis.md (a reviewer-facing working paper) into growth-tactics.md, the…

  • Works in 6 steps: # Your Growth Tactics → ## Start this week → ## The tactics → …
  • Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone
  • SKILL.md covers The one rule — re-package,…, Inputs & Output, Document skeleton (exactly… and Banned in the output…, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Founder Report is an agent skill from acogood/diffmode_free. Founder-report packaging stage for the Diffmode growth-tactics pipeline — the post-gate step that turns the APPROVED synthesis.md (a reviewer-facing working paper) into growth-tactics.md, the founder-facing "Your Growth Tactics" report. Strict re-packaging per the central writing-style.md — plain tactic cards (what it is, why they won't see it coming, how to start this week, time to first signal, what you need, kill it if) with ZERO pipeline plumbing — no vector IDs, no Pass labels, no pools, no numeric scores…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone. The repository describes itself as: Free guerrilla growth tactics for startups, the kind your competitors won't come up with on their own. Runs in Claude Code or Codex: competitor read, buyer map, and 7 to 9… The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone

Example prompts

  • “Your Growth Tactics”
  • “/founder-report”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. # Your Growth Tactics
  2. ## Start this week
  3. ## The tactics
  4. ## What to avoid
  5. ## How to sequence these
  6. ## Where these came from

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c175a4d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Founder Report loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 200 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,112 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~200
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from acogood/diffmode_free at commit c175a4d, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© acogood). 1,112 words, ~2,242 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/founder-report/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
founder-report
description
Founder-report packaging stage for the Diffmode growth-tactics pipeline — the post-gate step that turns the APPROVED synthesis.md (a reviewer-facing working paper) into growth-tactics.md, the founder-facing "Your Growth Tactics" report. Strict re-packaging per the central writing-style.md — plain tactic cards (what it is, why they won't see it coming, how to start this week, time to first signal, what you need, kill it if) with ZERO pipeline plumbing — no vector IDs, no Pass labels, no pools, no numeric scores, no self-grading. Adds no new claims, numbers, tactics, or estimates — every sentence traceable to synthesis.md. Use after the synthesis build reviewer gate and before the HTML report render. Best-effort by design — if it fails, the report falls back to synthesis.md.
metadata.version
1.0.0

Founder Report — package synthesis.md into "Your Growth Tactics"

synthesis.md is written to pass a reviewer: it carries disposition tables, traceability lines, pool audits, and self-grades, because downstream checks parse them. That makes it a working paper, not a deliverable. This stage derives the founder view: it reads the APPROVED synthesis.md and re-packages the tactics into growth-tactics.md — the page the founder actually opens first. synthesis.md itself is never modified (its structure is a load-bearing contract with the reviewer and the orchestrator's checks).

The one rule — re-package, never re-author

Zero new content. Every sentence in the output must be traceable to something synthesis.md already says. Specifically:

  • No new claims, numbers, estimates, channels, or tactics. If synthesis.md doesn't say it, the report doesn't either.
  • Tactic count and names are preserved exactly — same tactics, same order, same names — minus bracket tags: strip the — [Pass 1 White Space] / — [Pass 2 Synergy/Founder-Fit] origin labels from titles, and strip [HIGH COMPLEXITY] / [LOW CONFIDENCE] flags from names. Where such a flag exists, say it in plain words inside the card instead (e.g. "this is the heaviest lift in the set" under What you need).
  • Allowed transformations: reorder, merge fields, strip labels and citations, split long sentences, and simplify wording to meet writing-style.md. Nothing else.

Inputs & Output

  • WS/03-think-tanks/demand-generation/synthesis.md (PRIMARY — the APPROVED final synthesis; read-only)
  • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/writing-style.md (the voice contract — grade 6–8, ≤~20 words per sentence, banned-jargon table, the coffee test)
  • OUTPUT: WS/03-think-tanks/demand-generation/growth-tactics.md (write no other files)

Document skeleton (exactly these sections, in this order)

1. # Your Growth Tactics

A 2-3 sentence intro: what these tactics are, why they fit THIS founder (pull the budget / team / stage facts from the Synthesis Overview's Constraint Summary), and how to use the document (start with the quick wins, read each card before committing).

2. ## Start this week

The tactics whose first signal arrives within ~4 weeks — take them from the Tactical Clusters quick-wins group. One line each: the tactic name + what you'd do first. No card detail here; the cards follow.

3. ## The tactics

One card per tactic, in synthesis order. Heading: ### N. <Name> (sequential number, plain name, no bracket labels). Each card has exactly these 7 fields, in this order:

FieldBuilt from (synthesis.md)Rules
What this isIn plain English (+ Emergent Mechanism where it clarifies)1-3 short sentences; what you actually do
Why they won't see it comingStructural Advantage (+ the competitive-adoption note from Primary Channel(s))lead with why competitors won't think of this themselves; strip taxonomy labels ("Type: …") — keep the plain structural reason and how long the edge lasts. KEEP competitor-adoption lines like "nobody in your market does this yet"
How to start this weekHow to Execute steps, kept verbatim where they're already plainfold in useful Adapted to Your Constraints context (e.g. "scaled down to fit your $500/month")
Time to first signalExpected Timeline & Success Metricsthe early signal + when to expect it; strip any (per …) vector citations
What you needRequired Resources (+ Skills Required where it adds something)time / budget / tools, in one or two lines
Kill it if…the decision point in Expected Timeline & Success Metricsthe concrete number/date that says stop or double down
Execute thisderived from the tactic's first steps2-3 specific tools, skills, or templates that help execute the first steps — see rules below

"Execute this" rules. This field is the ONE exception to the "zero new content" rule — it names execution aids, not strategic claims. Scope it tightly:

  • Name 2-3 concrete tools, agent skills, or templates that help the founder execute the tactic's first steps. Match them to what the tactic actually involves:
    • Outreach / cold email → the cold-email skill (coreyhaines31/marketingskills) or the agent's built-in writing
    • Copy / messaging → the copywriting skill or the agent's built-in writing
    • Landing page / demo → v0.dev, the free-tools skill, or the agent's code generation
    • Community / social → the community-marketing or social skill
    • Content / SEO → the content-strategy or ai-seo skill
    • Design / visual assets → Canva, Figma, or the agent's image generation
    • Tracking / measurement → a simple spreadsheet with columns for the kill-signal metric
  • Format as a short bulleted list: → <what>: <tool/skill name>.
  • Do NOT invent tactics, channels, or numbers here — only name execution tools.
  • If the tactic is purely manual (e.g. "walk into 10 coffee shops"), say → No tools needed — this is a shoes-on-the-ground play.
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4. ## What to avoid

From the Anti-Portfolio. Per item: why founders try it, why it fails for THIS founder, and what to do instead (point at the relevant card by number). No severity labels, no "anti-pattern" vocabulary — just plain warnings.

5. ## How to sequence these

The timeline clusters in plain words (this week / this month / the long game), then the Top 5 as "if you only run five, run these" — each with a one-line plain reason taken from what synthesis.md already says about it (fit, speed, the edge). No numeric scores anywhere — the founder gets reasons, not grades.

6. ## Where these came from

One short paragraph: these tactics were built by combining growth mechanisms mined from real, public case studies during this run, and checked against this founder's budget, team, and stage; the reason they're defensible is that copying them would force a bigger competitor to work in a way their structure doesn't allow. Then point the curious reader at the two working papers in the same report: How These Were Built (the mechanism combinations) and Tactic Engineering Notes (the full engineering write-up, scores and traceability included). This must be the LAST section.

Banned in the output (deterministic — the orchestrator greps for these)

The orchestrator rejects the output if any of these appear. Self-grep before returning:

BannedWhy
vector IDs — regex (struct|lever|resource|psych|pos|conv)-[0-9]plumbing; lives in synthesis.md only
Pass 1 / Pass 2pipeline phase labels
must_includeconstraints plumbing
Pool A / Pool Bconstraints plumbing
white space / white-space (any case)pipeline vocabulary
growth-factors.jsoninternal file name
PASS / FAIL self-gradingthe founder report doesn't grade itself
/10 or /50 scoresno numeric scores in the founder view
"anti-pattern" (any case)jargon; say what to avoid in plain words

Plus everything writing-style.md already bans (leverage, optimize, arbitrage, …).

Self-check (before returning)

  • Card count under ## The tactics == the number of ### Tactic #N blocks in synthesis.md, same order, same names (minus bracket tags).
  • Every card has all 7 fields, in the listed order (including "Execute this").
  • Banned-pattern grep over the output is empty.
  • The document's last section is ## Where these came from.
  • Voice: grade 6–8, ≤~20 words per sentence, passes the coffee test, no banned jargon — per writing-style.md.
  • Spot-check 2-3 cards: every sentence traces to the matching tactic in synthesis.md — no invented numbers, channels, or steps.

This stage is best-effort by design: if it can't produce a clean output, the pipeline ships synthesis.md as the main page (old behavior). Never degrade synthesis.md to make this stage pass.

© acogood, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugin/skills/founder-report of acogood/diffmode_free.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c175a4d

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Questions about Founder Report

What does Founder Report do?

Founder-report packaging stage for the Diffmode growth-tactics pipeline — the post-gate step that turns the APPROVED synthesis.md (a reviewer-facing working paper) into growth-tactics.md, the…. Founder Report is an agent skill from acogood/diffmode_free.md, the founder-facing "Your Growth Tactics" report.

When should I use Founder Report?

Founder Report fits situations like: tasks that involve Brand voice and tone.

How do I install Founder Report in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add acogood/diffmode_free --skill founder-report -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugin/skills/founder-report in acogood/diffmode_free) into .claude/skills/founder-report in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Founder Report in Codex?

Run `npx skills add acogood/diffmode_free --skill founder-report -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugin/skills/founder-report in acogood/diffmode_free) into .agents/skills/founder-report in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Founder Report in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add acogood/diffmode_free --skill founder-report -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/founder-report, .gemini/skills/founder-report, .github/skills/founder-report and .opencode/skills/founder-report in your project.

What does Founder Report need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Founder Report is instructions for the agent only.

Does Founder Report access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Founder Report safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Founder Report use?

Founder Report is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Founder Report use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Founder Report?

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Who maintains Founder Report?

acogood (a GitHub user) maintains it in acogood/diffmode_free, which has 163 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 10, 2026.

Source: acogood/diffmode_free on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.