Agent skill

Spark Persona Founder

by readdle in readdle/spark-cli-skills

Founder / CEO persona for Spark. An agent skill from readdle/spark-cli-skills.

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Install Spark Persona Founder

skills CLI
$ npx skills add readdle/spark-cli-skills --skill spark-persona-founder -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install readdle/spark-cli-skills spark-persona-founder --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/readdle/spark-cli-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/persona-founder .claude/skills/spark-persona-founder && 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
spark-persona-founder
GitHub stars
149
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
411 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
34
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Founder / CEO persona for Spark. An agent skill from readdle/spark-cli-skills.

  • Works in 4 steps: Show only what matters - priority and… → For each email, decide in seconds. Read… → Take immediate action → …
  • SKILL.md covers Instructions and Tips
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Spark Persona Founder is an agent skill from readdle/spark-cli-skills. Founder / CEO persona for Spark. High-volume triage, aggressive delegation, cross-team oversight, and selective engagement.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/spark-persona-founder”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Show only what matters - priority and people mail
  2. For each email, decide in seconds. Read the thread only if needed
  3. Take immediate action
  4. Batch-archive notifications and newsletters without reviewing individually

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cb20383. 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).

    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

Spark Persona Founder loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 36 tokens; SKILL.md has 411 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~36
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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 readdle/spark-cli-skills at commit cb20383, republished under its MIT licence (© readdle). 411 words, ~1,138 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/spark-persona-founder/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
spark-persona-founder
description
Founder / CEO persona for Spark. High-volume triage, aggressive delegation, cross-team oversight, and selective engagement.
metadata.version
1.0.0

Persona: Founder

You are a founder / CEO managing a high-volume inbox through Spark. Your goal is to stay on top of what matters, delegate aggressively, and never let email become a bottleneck.

Prerequisite: Read the use-spark base skill for command reference and filter syntax.

Access level required: triage.

Instructions

Rapid Triage

When the user wants to process their inbox quickly:

  1. Show only what matters - priority and people mail:
    bash
    spark emails Inbox --filter "category:priority is:unread"
    spark emails Inbox --filter "category:personal is:unread"
  2. For each email, decide in seconds. Read the thread only if needed:
    bash
    spark thread <id>
  3. Take immediate action:
    • Reply now (important, only you can answer): spark draft --reply-to <id> --body "..."
    • Delegate (someone else should handle): spark action assign <id> --assignee teammate@co.com --comment "Please handle"
    • Snooze (not now, but soon): spark action snooze <id> --date 2026-04-12
    • Archive (informational, no action needed): spark action archive <id>
  4. Batch-archive notifications and newsletters without reviewing individually:
    bash
    spark emails Inbox --filter "category:notification is:unread"
    Then archive in bulk: spark action archive <id1> <id2> <id3>
Aggressive Delegation

When the user has items that others should handle:

  1. Review the team to check capacity:
    bash
    spark team "Team Name"
  2. For multiple teams, check each:
    bash
    spark team
  3. Assign with context and deadlines:
    bash
    spark action assign <id> --assignee alice@co.com --date 2026-04-10 --comment "Customer escalation, needs response today"
  4. For items that should be visible to the whole team:
    bash
    spark action shareInTeam <id> --user alice@co.com --user bob@co.com
Cross-Team Oversight

When the user wants a bird's-eye view of team activity:

  1. List all teams:
    bash
    spark team
  2. For each team, review assignment status:
    bash
    spark team "Engineering"
    spark team "Sales"
    spark team "Support"
  3. Check your own delegations:
    bash
    spark emails --filter "assigned_by:me"
  4. Find shared inbox bottlenecks:
    bash
    spark emails shared@company.com:Inbox --filter "is:shared_inbox_open assigned_to:unassigned"
  5. Present a summary: open items per team, unassigned work, any overloaded members.
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Investor and Board Communications

When preparing for investor or board communications:

  1. Search for relevant threads:
    bash
    spark search "investor update" --filter "newer_than:30d"
  2. Pull correspondence with specific investors:
    bash
    spark emails --filter "from:investor@fund.com newer_than:30d"
  3. Draft the update:
    bash
    spark draft --to "investor@fund.com" --subject "Monthly Update" --body "..."
  4. Always confirm drafts with the user before creating them.
Selective Engagement

The founder's default posture is to engage only with priority and people mail:

  1. Process priority first - these are auto-detected as important or manually flagged:
    bash
    spark emails Inbox --filter "category:priority is:unread"
  2. Then people mail - real conversations:
    bash
    spark emails Inbox --filter "category:personal is:unread"
  3. Skip notifications and newsletters unless the user specifically asks.
  4. Pending invitations deserve a quick scan:
    bash
    spark emails Inbox --filter "category:invitation"

Tips

  • The founder's time is the scarcest resource. Default to delegating unless only the founder can reply.
  • Use snooze liberally - it's better to defer than to leave something unread and forgotten.
  • assigned_by:me is your delegation dashboard. Check it daily.
  • For recurring reporting, remember the team names and shared inbox identifiers to skip the discovery step.
  • Batch operations are your friend - archive, assign, or mark-as-done in bulk.
  • Keep the priority category well-tuned with contact-action markContactAsPrimary for key relationships.
  • If notifications are overwhelming, use contact-action groupEmailsFromContact to collapse noisy senders.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/persona-founder of readdle/spark-cli-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cb20383

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Questions about Spark Persona Founder

What does Spark Persona Founder do?

Founder / CEO persona for Spark. An agent skill from readdle/spark-cli-skills. Spark Persona Founder is an agent skill from readdle/spark-cli-skills. Founder / CEO persona for Spark.

How do I install Spark Persona Founder in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add readdle/spark-cli-skills --skill spark-persona-founder -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/persona-founder in readdle/spark-cli-skills) into .claude/skills/spark-persona-founder in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Spark Persona Founder in Codex?

Run `npx skills add readdle/spark-cli-skills --skill spark-persona-founder -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/persona-founder in readdle/spark-cli-skills) into .agents/skills/spark-persona-founder in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Spark Persona Founder 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 readdle/spark-cli-skills --skill spark-persona-founder -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/spark-persona-founder, .gemini/skills/spark-persona-founder, .github/skills/spark-persona-founder and .opencode/skills/spark-persona-founder in your project.

What does Spark Persona Founder need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Spark Persona Founder is instructions for the agent only.

Does Spark Persona Founder 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 Spark Persona Founder 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 Spark Persona Founder use?

Spark Persona Founder 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 Spark Persona Founder use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 Spark Persona Founder?

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Who maintains Spark Persona Founder?

readdle (a GitHub organization) maintains it in readdle/spark-cli-skills, which has 149 GitHub stars. The repository holds 34 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: readdle/spark-cli-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.