Agent skill

Indie Business

by gustavscirulis in gustavscirulis/snapgrid

Business fundamentals for indie app developers — LLC/entity setup, taxes, Apple Small Business Program, revenue tracking, hiring contractors, and financial planning for sustainability.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Indie Business

skills CLI
$ npx skills add gustavscirulis/snapgrid --skill indie-business -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install gustavscirulis/snapgrid indie-business --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/gustavscirulis/snapgrid.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/skills/growth/indie-business .claude/skills/indie-business && 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
indie-business
GitHub stars
116
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~4.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,992 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
118
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Business fundamentals for indie app developers — LLC/entity setup, taxes, Apple Small Business Program, revenue tracking, hiring contractors, and financial planning for sustainability.

  • Works in 8 steps: Gather Context → Business Entity Options → Apple Small Business Program → …
  • User asks about business setup
  • SKILL.md covers When This Skill Activates, Process, Output Format and References
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Indie Business is an agent skill from gustavscirulis/snapgrid. Business fundamentals for indie app developers — LLC/entity setup, taxes, Apple Small Business Program, revenue tracking, hiring contractors, and financial planning for sustainability. Use when user asks about business setup, tax implications, hiring, or financial planning for their app business.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.6k 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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Budgeting and forecasting, Tax preparation and Operations and SOPs. The repository describes itself as: SnapGrid is an open-source Mac app for collecting, organizing, and analyzing UI screenshots. It uses AI to automatically detect UI components and patterns, making it a powerful…

When your agent uses it

  • User asks about business setup
  • Tax implications
  • Financial planning for their app business

Example prompts

  • “/indie-business”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, WebSearch

Workflow steps

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

  1. Gather Context
  2. Business Entity Options
  3. Apple Small Business Program
  4. Tax Basics for App Revenue
  5. Revenue Tracking and Bookkeeping
  6. When to Hire
  7. Insurance and Liability
  8. Financial Planning for Indie Sustainability

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit eb7eaf4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • AskUserQuestion
    • WebSearch

    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 markdown).

    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):

    • developer.apple.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

Indie Business loads about 4.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,992 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.6k

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

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,992 words (~4,620 tokens).

“Business fundamentals for indie Apple app developers. Covers the non-code aspects of running an app business — entity setup, taxes, revenue tracking, hiring, and financial planning.”

— opening of SKILL.md by gustavscirulis, Custom licence
name
indie-business
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, WebSearch

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/skills/growth/indie-business of gustavscirulis/snapgrid.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit eb7eaf4

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in gustavscirulis/snapgrid, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Indie Business

What does Indie Business do?

Business fundamentals for indie app developers — LLC/entity setup, taxes, Apple Small Business Program, revenue tracking, hiring contractors, and financial planning for sustainability. Indie Business is an agent skill from gustavscirulis/snapgrid. Business fundamentals for indie app developers — LLC/entity setup, taxes, Apple Small Business Program, revenue tracking, hiring contractors, and financial planning for sustainability.

When should I use Indie Business?

Indie Business fits situations like: user asks about business setup; tax implications; financial planning for their app business.

How do I install Indie Business in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add gustavscirulis/snapgrid --skill indie-business -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/skills/growth/indie-business in gustavscirulis/snapgrid) into .claude/skills/indie-business in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Indie Business in Codex?

Run `npx skills add gustavscirulis/snapgrid --skill indie-business -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/skills/growth/indie-business in gustavscirulis/snapgrid) into .agents/skills/indie-business in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Indie Business 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 gustavscirulis/snapgrid --skill indie-business -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/indie-business, .gemini/skills/indie-business, .github/skills/indie-business and .opencode/skills/indie-business in your project.

What does Indie Business need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Indie Business is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, WebSearch.

Does Indie Business access the network?

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

Is Indie Business 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 Indie Business use?

Indie Business has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Indie Business use?

About 4.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 18k 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 Indie Business?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Indie Business: Itr Wala (karanb192/itr-wala, 871 stars), Longbridge Research (helsome/folio, 271 stars), Tax Filing (robbalian/claude-tax-filing, 174 stars) and India Itr Copilot (Loki200399/india-itr-copilot, 147 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Indie Business?

gustavscirulis (a GitHub user) maintains it in gustavscirulis/snapgrid, which has 116 GitHub stars. The repository holds 118 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on April 30, 2026.

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