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Agent skill

Agent Business Canvas

by harperreed in harperreed/dotfiles

A skill your agent uses when evaluating, designing, or pressure-testing the business model of an AI agent product.

No licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Agent Business Canvas

skills CLI
$ npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill agent-business-canvas -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install harperreed/dotfiles agent-business-canvas --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/harperreed/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills-archive/agent-business-canvas .claude/skills/agent-business-canvas && 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
agent-business-canvas
GitHub stars
334
Token cost
~3k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,430 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
32
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when evaluating, designing, or pressure-testing the business model of an AI agent product.

  • Works in 2 steps: "Are you building an agent product or… → "Describe the product in 2-3 sentences —…
  • Pressure-testing the business model of an AI agent product
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, When NOT to Use, Process and Phase 0: Role & Context, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Agent Business Canvas is an agent skill from harperreed/dotfiles. Use when evaluating, designing, or pressure-testing the business model of an AI agent product. Triggers on "agent business model", "agent economics", "agent canvas", "evaluate agent product", "agent pricing", "agent unit economics", "agentic business", "AI agent company", "agent cost structure".

Its SKILL.md is about 3k 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 Financial modeling, Product strategy and Agent evaluation and testing. The repository describes itself as: Dotfiles. Managed by YADM.

When your agent uses it

  • Pressure-testing the business model of an AI agent product
  • Agent business model
  • Agent economics
  • Evaluate agent product

Example prompts

  • “agent business model”
  • “agent economics”
  • “agent canvas”
  • “/agent-business-canvas”

Workflow steps

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

  1. "Are you building an agent product or evaluating one?" This sets the lens for the entire canvas.
  2. "Describe the product in 2-3 sentences — what does the agent do, who uses it, and how is it priced today?"

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b78c10e. 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 dot and markdown).

    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

Agent Business Canvas loads about 3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,430 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,430 words (~2,960 tokens).

“An opinionated, research-backed framework for evaluating AI agent product business models. Takes sharp positions derived from real production data (20,000+ agent deployments), challenges assumptions, and produces a structured canvas document.”

— opening of SKILL.md by harperreed
name
agent-business-canvas

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills-archive/agent-business-canvas of harperreed/dotfiles.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b78c10e

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Agent Business Canvas next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Qualitative ValuationJoelLewis/finance_skills206—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Biz Cac Ltvasgard-ai-platform/skills242—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Biz Unit Economicsasgard-ai-platform/skills242—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Categories

Questions about Agent Business Canvas

What does Agent Business Canvas do?

A skill your agent uses when evaluating, designing, or pressure-testing the business model of an AI agent product. Agent Business Canvas is an agent skill from harperreed/dotfiles. Use when evaluating, designing, or pressure-testing the business model of an AI agent product.

When should I use Agent Business Canvas?

Agent Business Canvas fits situations like: pressure-testing the business model of an AI agent product; agent business model; agent economics; evaluate agent product.

How do I install Agent Business Canvas in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill agent-business-canvas -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills-archive/agent-business-canvas in harperreed/dotfiles) into .claude/skills/agent-business-canvas in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Agent Business Canvas in Codex?

Run `npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill agent-business-canvas -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills-archive/agent-business-canvas in harperreed/dotfiles) into .agents/skills/agent-business-canvas in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Agent Business Canvas 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 harperreed/dotfiles --skill agent-business-canvas -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/agent-business-canvas, .gemini/skills/agent-business-canvas, .github/skills/agent-business-canvas and .opencode/skills/agent-business-canvas in your project.

What does Agent Business Canvas need to run?

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

Does Agent Business Canvas 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 Agent Business Canvas 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 Agent Business Canvas use?

No licence was found for Agent Business Canvas or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Agent Business Canvas use?

About 3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 12k 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 Agent Business Canvas?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Agent Business Canvas: Financial Unit Economics (nicepkg/auto-company, 195 stars), Startup Business Models (nicepkg/auto-company, 195 stars), Qualitative Valuation (JoelLewis/finance_skills, 206 stars) and Biz Cac Ltv (asgard-ai-platform/skills, 242 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Agent Business Canvas?

harperreed (a GitHub user) maintains it in harperreed/dotfiles, which has 334 GitHub stars. The repository holds 32 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 3, 2026.

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