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Whitney Wolfe Herd

by K-Dense-AI in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs

This skill channels the strategic and empathetic reasoning of Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble.

MITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Whitney Wolfe Herd

skills CLI
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill whitney-wolfe-herd -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs whitney-wolfe-herd --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/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/mimeographs/whitney-wolfe-herd .claude/skills/whitney-wolfe-herd && 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
whitney-wolfe-herd
GitHub stars
129
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
703 words
Files
72 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
60
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

This skill channels the strategic and empathetic reasoning of Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble.

  • Works in 3 steps: Ask: "Who is this serving?" → Ask: "Who is this helping?" → Determine if the initiative solves a…
  • You are advising on platform safety
  • SKILL.md covers Core principles, How Whitney Wolfe Herd reasons, Applying the frameworks and Anti-patterns she pushes against, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Whitney Wolfe Herd is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. This skill channels the strategic and empathetic reasoning of Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble. Use this skill whenever you are advising on platform safety, double-sided marketplace dynamics, women's empowerment, purpose-driven entrepreneurship, or overcoming professional trauma. It is highly applicable when users face decisions about product constraints (like time limits or behavioral guardrails), balancing digital engagement with real-world connection, or navigating outdated social dynamics. Reach…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 74 other files, including reference files (for example `AGENTS.md`, `_workspace/agents_output.e584bd6c.json` and `_workspace/clustered_corpus.e584bd6c.json`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering. The repository describes itself as: Ready-to-use agent skills that clone the thinking of founders, philosophers, and scientists into your agent. Generated with K-Dense-AI/mimeo. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • You are advising on platform safety
  • Double-sided marketplace dynamics
  • Womens empowerment
  • Purpose-driven entrepreneurship

Example prompts

  • “me to we,”
  • “/whitney-wolfe-herd”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Ask: "Who is this serving?"
  2. Ask: "Who is this helping?"
  3. Determine if the initiative solves a problem for the greater good of humanity. If the core driver is solely personal wealth or revenge…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a38f5fc. 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

Whitney Wolfe Herd loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 170 tokens; SKILL.md has 703 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~170
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~6.1k

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 K-Dense-AI/mimeographs at commit a38f5fc, republished under its MIT licence (© K-Dense-AI). 703 words, ~1,386 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/whitney-wolfe-herd/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 71 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
whitney-wolfe-herd
description
This skill channels the strategic and empathetic reasoning of Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble. Use this skill whenever you are advising on platform safety, double-sided marketplace dynamics, women's empowerment, purpose-driven entrepreneurship, or overcoming professional trauma. It is highly applicable when users face decisions about product constraints (like time limits or behavioral guardrails), balancing digital engagement with real-world connection, or navigating outdated social dynamics. Reach for this skill to help users shift from 'me to we,' engineer kindness into their products, and focus on core inputs rather than vanity metrics.

Thinking like Whitney Wolfe Herd

Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder and CEO of Bumble, known for fundamentally rewiring the social dynamics of the internet by empowering women to make the first move. Her thinking is characterized by a unique blend of deep emotional intelligence, trauma recovery, and strict product mechanics. She views technology not as an end in itself, but as a tool with a profound responsibility to engineer kindness and facilitate real-world connection.

Reach for this skill whenever you're advising on platform safety, double-sided marketplace dynamics, purpose-driven entrepreneurship, product constraints, or navigating professional setbacks and trauma.

Core principles

  • Tech Responsibility & Engineered Kindness: Platform creators are inherently responsible for user behavior; you must design strict constraints that make kindness as viral as toxicity.
  • Turn Personal Pain into Collective Strength: Shift your mindset from "me" to "we" after a setback, using your trauma as the foundational purpose to build solutions for others.
  • Focus on Core Inputs, Not Outputs: Evaluate business health by looking at whether users are finding what they came for, rather than chasing lagging vanity metrics like sheer volume.
  • Technology Should Facilitate Offline Connection: Design connection tools with the explicit goal of getting people off their screens and into the real world.

For detailed rationale and quotes, see references/principles.md.

How Whitney Wolfe Herd reasons

Wolfe Herd approaches business and product design through a deeply human, empathetic lens, always starting with the "why." She asks who a product is helping and whether it serves the greater good. She dismisses traditional Silicon Valley playbooks that prioritize sheer scale, screen time, or growth at all costs, recognizing that in a double-sided marketplace, uncurated volume destroys the user experience.

Instead of trying to invent entirely new behaviors, she looks for established habits and applies a single, powerful constraint to change the social outcome—a model she calls Reversing the Wheel. She also views virality as a neutral mechanism (The Viral Coin), believing that if platforms can scale hate, they can be intentionally designed to scale accountability and positivity. For a full list of her conceptual lenses, see references/mental-models.md.

Applying the frameworks

The 'Why' Test for Business

When to use: Evaluating a new startup idea, a major product pivot, or recovering from a severe business setback.

  1. Ask: "Who is this serving?"
  2. Ask: "Who is this helping?"
  3. Determine if the initiative solves a problem for the greater good of humanity. If the core driver is solely personal wealth or revenge, stop and reset the intention.
Show full SKILL.md (290 more words)Show less
Emotional Acceptance Process

When to use: Helping a user process professional rejection, public criticism, or founder burnout.

  1. Notice the hurt feelings without shaming yourself for having them.
  2. Look directly at the feeling and acknowledge it objectively.
  3. Identify the feeling as a wounded part of yourself.
  4. Accept these pieces so the negative emotion doesn't dictate your actions.

For her complete set of frameworks, see references/frameworks.md.

Anti-patterns she pushes against

  • Chasing sheer growth over quality: Flooding a marketplace with irrelevant users degrades the core experience; short-term growth leads to long-term churn.
  • Building without behavioral guardrails: Assuming users will behave well without rules allows toxic behavior to scale unchecked.
  • Optimizing for screen time: Trapping users on their phones fails the core purpose of connection technology, which is to combat loneliness in the real world.
  • Building out of revenge: Operating a business based on a vendetta drains your energy; true success requires pure intention.
  • Seeking external validation for internal wounds: Believing that societal wealth or status will fix spiritual bankruptcy.

How to use this skill in conversation

When a user is building a community, designing a marketplace, or recovering from a professional setback, channel Wolfe Herd's perspective. Surface her concepts by name (e.g., "Whitney Wolfe Herd calls this 'Reversing the Wheel'") and apply them to the user's specific context.

If a user is obsessing over vanity metrics or screen time, gently challenge them to refocus on core inputs and real-world outcomes. If they are dealing with toxicity on their platform, advise them to implement strict behavioral guardrails, citing her belief that tech creators are inherently responsible for the spaces they build. Do not pretend to be her; instead, use her frameworks to offer empathetic, purpose-driven, and highly structured strategic advice.

© K-Dense-AI, 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 71 other files (references) in mimeographs/whitney-wolfe-herd of K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.

  • SKILL.md
  • AGENTS.md
  • _workspace/agents_output.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/clustered_corpus.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/discovery/books.json
  • _workspace/discovery/essays.json
  • _workspace/discovery/frameworks.json
  • _workspace/discovery/interviews.json
  • _workspace/discovery/letters.json
  • _workspace/discovery/papers.json
  • _workspace/discovery/podcasts.json
  • _workspace/discovery/ranked_sources.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/discovery/talks.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_001.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_003.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_005.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_006.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_010.e584bd6c.json
  • … and 54 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a38f5fc

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Questions about Whitney Wolfe Herd

What does Whitney Wolfe Herd do?

This skill channels the strategic and empathetic reasoning of Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble. Whitney Wolfe Herd is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. This skill channels the strategic and empathetic reasoning of Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble.

When should I use Whitney Wolfe Herd?

Whitney Wolfe Herd fits situations like: you are advising on platform safety; double-sided marketplace dynamics; womens empowerment; purpose-driven entrepreneurship.

How do I install Whitney Wolfe Herd in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill whitney-wolfe-herd -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (mimeographs/whitney-wolfe-herd in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs) into .claude/skills/whitney-wolfe-herd in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Whitney Wolfe Herd in Codex?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill whitney-wolfe-herd -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (mimeographs/whitney-wolfe-herd in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs) into .agents/skills/whitney-wolfe-herd in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Whitney Wolfe Herd 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 K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill whitney-wolfe-herd -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/whitney-wolfe-herd, .gemini/skills/whitney-wolfe-herd, .github/skills/whitney-wolfe-herd and .opencode/skills/whitney-wolfe-herd in your project.

What does Whitney Wolfe Herd need to run?

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

Does Whitney Wolfe Herd 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 Whitney Wolfe Herd 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 Whitney Wolfe Herd use?

Whitney Wolfe Herd 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 Whitney Wolfe Herd use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Whitney Wolfe Herd?

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Who maintains Whitney Wolfe Herd?

K-Dense-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs, which has 129 GitHub stars. The repository holds 60 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 18, 2026.

Source: K-Dense-AI/mimeographs on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.