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Agent skill

Review The Work

by AIDevGTM in AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder

Before showing the user any substantive GTM deliverable (positioning, value prop, homepage, launch post, pricing, sales script, the brief or roadmap), stress-test it against the standard as an…

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Review The Work

skills CLI
$ npx skills add AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder --skill review-the-work -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder review-the-work --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/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/17-review-the-work .claude/skills/review-the-work && 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
review-the-work
GitHub stars
310
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
729 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Before showing the user any substantive GTM deliverable (positioning, value prop, homepage, launch post, pricing, sales script, the brief or roadmap), stress-test it against the standard as an…

  • Asks whether something is actually strong
  • SKILL.md covers The core idea, How to run this (for the agent), The standard (applies to… and The specific checks (by…, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging

What it does

Review The Work is an agent skill from AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder. Before showing the user any substantive GTM deliverable (positioning, value prop, homepage, launch post, pricing, sales script, the brief or roadmap), stress-test it against the standard as an independent critic, because the agent that wrote it is the worst judge of whether it is good. Use as a gate right before presenting work, or when the user asks whether something is actually strong.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 Marketing & SEO, covering Positioning and messaging, Go-to-market strategy and Load testing. The repository describes itself as: 1 Product of The Day @ Product Hunt. The GTM co-founder you don't have. Open-source GTM Agent Skills for developer tools and AI products, for founders, GTM hires, and founding… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asks whether something is actually strong
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Go-to-market strategy

Example prompts

  • “/review-the-work”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7e89e8a. 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

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • linkedin.com

    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

Review The Work loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 729 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~102
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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 AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder at commit 7e89e8a, republished under its MIT licence (© AIDevGTM). 729 words, ~1,236 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/review-the-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
review-the-work
description
Before showing the user any substantive GTM deliverable (positioning, value prop, homepage, launch post, pricing, sales script, the brief or roadmap), stress-test it against the standard as an independent critic, because the agent that wrote it is the worst judge of whether it is good. Use as a gate right before presenting work, or when the user asks whether something is actually strong.

Review the work (the self-check gate)

The person who wrote it is the worst judge of whether it is good. Before this reaches the founder, stop being the author and become the skeptic.

Use this when: you are about to present any substantive deliverable, or the founder asks "is this actually good?" It is a gate, not a stage. It has no place in the linear sequence. Run it around any piece of work, every time.

The core idea

An agent that just wrote something is biased to ship it. That bias is how generic, plausible, quietly wrong work reaches a founder who does not yet know enough to catch it. So separate the two jobs: the author drafts, a different lens judges. You do not present work because you made it. You present it because it survived a skeptic.

Steal the one rule that makes this work: the author may submit the work, the author may not issue the verdict. Switch roles on purpose. Become the developer who is skeptical, the buyer who is busy, the reviewer who has seen a hundred of these, and try to break it before the market does.

How to run this (for the agent)

  • Run it silently, before presenting. The founder should see the verdict and the work, not the whole audit.
  • Give a clear verdict: PASS, or REVISE with the exact checks that failed and the specific fix for each. Never a vague "looks good."
  • Do not rubber-stamp. If you cannot find a single weakness, you are not reading as the skeptic. Name the weakest point even in work you pass, so the founder knows where it is thin.
  • When it fails, fix it and re-run the gate, then present. Do not hand the founder a list of problems you could have fixed yourself.

The standard (applies to everything)

  • Specific, not puffery. No "powerful," "seamless," "best-in-class," "platform." Every claim carries a number, a name, or a proof, or it gets cut.
  • The developer is the hero, not the product. If the founder's tool is the hero of the sentence, rewrite it.
  • It speaks to the real ICP from the brief, not to "developers." A message for everyone lands on no one.
  • It rests on validated facts. Anything load-bearing that is still [assumption] is flagged out loud, not smuggled in as truth.
  • A skeptical developer could not immediately prove it false. Developers test claims and find the truth. If a dev would find the failing case in thirty seconds, you have not passed.
  • Human voice. Reads like a person wrote it. No em-dashes, no AI tells.
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The specific checks (by deliverable)

Run the general standard, then the relevant skill's own checklist:

  • Positioning / story (positioning-and-story): problem-first, not solution-first. Has a villain. Survives the "every competitor could say this" test.
  • Value prop (value-prop-that-converts): no banned words, built on a real job-to-be-done, and a developer would repeat it in their own words.
  • Homepage (the-homepage): written for the developer who visits, not the buyer who never does. Time to first value is obvious.
  • Launch post (launch-it): honest, not salesy. Opens on the developer's problem, not the product. Would not get flamed for overclaiming.
  • Pricing (pricing): anchored to a value metric, not a guessed number. The buyer could justify it to whoever holds the budget.
  • Founder-led sales (founder-led-sales): passes the four-part deal test. Does not mistake a friendly free user for a buyer.
  • The brief (start-here): strongest asset at the top, [validated] / [assumption] tags intact, in the founder's own words.
  • The roadmap (strategy-and-roadmap): opens with a one-line Diagnosis, then Now / Next / Later. It is a plan, not a re-saved copy of the brief.

Your next 30 minutes

  • Take the last thing produced (a headline, a post, a price) and run it through the standard above, as the skeptic, not the author.
  • Name the single weakest claim in it. Replace it with something provable, or cut it.
  • Find the one [assumption] it depends on most, and decide whether it is safe to ship on or belongs in talk-to-users first.
  • Only then put it in front of a real person. If it did not survive you, it will not survive them.

Built from real dev-tool GTM experience, with frameworks from Adam Frankl (The Developer-Facing Startup) and Jakub Czakon (markepear.dev). Want an independent human read before this goes live? That's exactly what I do. Reach out to me on LinkedIn.

© AIDevGTM, MIT. 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 skills/17-review-the-work of AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7e89e8a

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Questions about Review The Work

What does Review The Work do?

Before showing the user any substantive GTM deliverable (positioning, value prop, homepage, launch post, pricing, sales script, the brief or roadmap), stress-test it against the standard as an…. Review The Work is an agent skill from AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder. Before showing the user any substantive GTM deliverable (positioning, value prop, homepage, launch post, pricing, sales script, the brief or roadmap), stress-test it against the standard as an independent critic, because the agent that wrote it is the worst judge of whether it is good.

When should I use Review The Work?

Review The Work fits situations like: asks whether something is actually strong; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Go-to-market strategy.

How do I install Review The Work in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder --skill review-the-work -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/17-review-the-work in AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder) into .claude/skills/review-the-work in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Review The Work in Codex?

Run `npx skills add AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder --skill review-the-work -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/17-review-the-work in AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder) into .agents/skills/review-the-work in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Review The Work 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 AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder --skill review-the-work -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/review-the-work, .gemini/skills/review-the-work, .github/skills/review-the-work and .opencode/skills/review-the-work in your project.

What does Review The Work need to run?

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

Does Review The Work access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: linkedin.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Review The Work 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 Review The Work use?

Review The Work is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Review The Work use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k 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 Review The Work?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Review The Work: Revenue Centric Design (heliocosta-dev/revenue-centric-design, 740 stars), Startup Design (ferdinandobons/startup-skill, 1.2k stars), Crossing The Chasm (wondelai/skills, 2.4k stars) and Landing Page GTM Copy (ooiyeefei/ccc, 495 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Review The Work?

AIDevGTM (a GitHub user) maintains it in AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder, which has 310 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

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