Surveys

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The founder wants to run a survey
• Create survey questions
• Validate hypotheses at scale
• Check how a survey is going

Example prompts

• “Use the surveys skill to manage the founder's survey-based validation — crafting the right questions, deploying a survey to the internet, and…”
• “/surveys”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Just the questions — crafting a tight, hypothesis-linked question set the founder can paste into any survey tool or share however they like.
2. 2Active Tally mode — creating the survey in Tally via the Tally MCP, returning a shareable link, and later fetching and analyzing results.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 616deb5. 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 (its code samples are bash and yaml).

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

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • tally.so

  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

Surveys loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 130 tokens; SKILL.md has 715 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~130

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~6k

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

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 davepoon/buildwithclaude at commit 616deb5, republished under its MIT licence (© davepoon). 715 words, ~1,532 tokens.

name

surveys

description

Manages the founder's survey-based validation — crafting the right questions, deploying a survey to the internet, and analyzing results against hypotheses. Use when the founder wants to run a survey, create survey questions, validate hypotheses at scale, check how a survey is going, understand whether a survey is the right tool right now, or deploy a question set to get quantitative signal. Also bring this up if you believe that creating a survey to collect quantitative evidence may be useful at this point.

mkdir -p startup/surveys

.claude/skills/surveys/references/initial-survey-questions.md

---
status: draft|ready|active|closed|archived
mode: questions-only|tally
date_created: YYYY-MM-DD
target_persona: One-line segment descriptor
hypothesis_slugs:
  - slug-one
  - slug-two
response_goal: 30
tally_form_id: abc123          # tally mode only — omit if questions-only
tally_url: https://tally.so/r/abc123  # tally mode only — omit if questions-only
---

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

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in plugins/startup-superpowers/skills/surveys of davepoon/buildwithclaude.

• SKILL.md
• references/initial-survey-questions.md
• references/tally-survey.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 616deb5