Agent skills for startup founders
SKILL.md files for 0→1 founders shipping AI products in Cursor or Claude Code: validate, scope, sell, price, and raise without repeating yourself every prompt. Install once and your agent applies the right framework from discovery through early GTM and fundraising.
Validate & discover
Test ideas, measure PMF, and run continuous discovery before you over-build.
Measuring Product-Market Fit
Assess and achieve PMF with Sean Ellis surveys, retention signals, and scale-vs-iterate decisions. Frameworks from 46 product leaders on Lenny’s Podcast.
Refound AI590Opportunity Solution Tree
Structure continuous discovery with Teresa Torres’ OST: map a desired outcome to opportunities, solutions, and experiments. Prioritize problems before features.
phuryn10kAI Evals
Create and run AI evaluations for LLM products: rubrics, test cases, failure analysis, and Pass/Fail criteria. Treat evals as the product requirement doc for AI features.
Refound AI590AI Product Strategy
Decide where AI belongs in your product: strategic bets, build-vs-buy, and avoiding AI-for-AI’s-sake. Complements shipping-focused AI product engineering skills.
Refound AI590Just Scrape
Scrape and extract structured data from websites for competitive research, market intel, and PM discovery workflows using the ScrapeGraphAI CLI.
scrapegraphai2.1k10.2kFirecrawl
Crawl, scrape, and search the web with Firecrawl for competitive research, SEO audits, market intel, and content extraction at scale.
firecrawl5.4k790Research
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture findings as a Markdown file in the repo for PM and founder discovery work.
mattpocock144.9k2.5kGrilling
Relentless multi-round interviewing that maps a plan as a design tree: ask the whole frontier each round with recommended answers, then recompute as decisions settle.
mattpocock144.9k11.5kLoop Me
Grill recurring life and work loops into workflow specs: triggers, checkpoints, briefs, and push-right human-in-the-loop design for agent-runnable workflows.
mattpocock144.9k3.9kScope & build
Cut scope to an MVP and ship with agentic coding workflows.
Scoping & Cutting
Scope MVPs and cut features ruthlessly before launch. Decide what ships now vs later when time and runway are constrained.
Refound AI590Vibe Coding
Build software with AI coding tools as a non-traditional developer: prompting patterns, iteration loops, and shipping working prototypes in Cursor or Claude Code.
Refound AI590AI Product
Ship LLM features to production: structured output, streaming, prompt versioning. Avoid demo-ware, context stuffing, unvalidated output.
sickn33156Stripe Best Practices
Guide Stripe integration decisions: Checkout Sessions vs PaymentIntents, Connect platforms, billing, webhooks, API key security, and migrating from deprecated APIs.
Stripe89012.4kDeploy to Vercel
Deploy projects to Vercel from the agent: environment setup, build configuration, preview URLs, and production deployment workflows.
Vercel28k705Skill Creator
Create effective agent skills: SKILL.md structure, frontmatter, triggers, progressive disclosure, and packaging instructions for Cursor and Claude Code.
Anthropic52k1.4kFind Skills
Discover and install agent skills from the open ecosystem. Search skills.sh, verify quality, and install with npx skills when users need capabilities beyond your current setup.
Vercel Labs2.4kSell & price
Early sales motion and pricing before you have a full GTM team.
Founder Sales
Close your first customers before you have a sales team: discovery calls, objection handling, and early GTM motion for technical founders.
Refound AI590Pricing Strategy
Design pricing models, packaging, and willingness-to-pay research. Goes beyond landing-page CRO into monetization architecture for early-stage products.
Refound AI590Launch & grow
Ship your first release and get early traction.
Product Launch
Plan product launches with the ORB framework (owned, rented, borrowed channels) and phased rollout from internal alpha to full launch.
coreyhaines313.9kMarketing Ideas
Brainstorm and prioritize from 139 proven SaaS marketing tactics, filtered by stage, budget, timeline, and your product context.
coreyhaines3133.7k85.3kPage CRO
Optimize landing pages, homepages, pricing pages, and marketing pages for conversions: value prop clarity, headlines, CTAs, trust signals, and friction fixes with test ideas.
coreyhaines3136.5k57.9kOnboarding CRO
Optimize post-signup onboarding and activation: define aha moments, map time-to-value, design checklists and empty states, and coordinate trigger-based emails.
coreyhaines3136.5k54kLead Magnets
Plan, create, and optimize lead magnets for email capture: format selection, value framing, landing page structure, and distribution strategy.
coreyhaines3136.5k42.1kAd Creative
Generate and iterate ad creative at scale: headlines, descriptions, primary text, and full variations for Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and other paid platforms.
coreyhaines3136.5k38.4kChurn Prevention
Reduce churn with cancellation flows, save offers, exit surveys, win-back sequences, and retention experiments for SaaS and subscription products.
coreyhaines3136.5k35.2kReferral Program
Design, optimize, and analyze referral and affiliate programs: incentives, viral loops, partner payouts, and word-of-mouth growth mechanics.
coreyhaines3136.5k31.8kRaise & pitch
Fundraising strategy, investor prep, and pitch materials.
Fundraising
Navigate fundraising strategy: whether to raise, investor relationships, pitch prep, and common founder mistakes. Distilled from Lenny’s Podcast guests.
Refound AI590Pitch Deck
Create or refine seed and Series A pitch decks with slide-by-slide narrative structure, not just bullet points. Story arc for investor presentations.
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Frequently asked questions
What are agent skills for startup founders?
Agent skills are SKILL.md instruction files that teach Cursor, Claude Code, and other coding agents how to run founder workflows (measuring PMF, scoping an MVP, writing a pitch deck, or preparing for fundraising) without you re-explaining the framework every session.
How do I install founder skills in Cursor?
Use npx skills add with the GitHub source shown on each skill page, or copy the SKILL.md into .cursor/skills/ in your project. Each skill page includes install commands and the full skill content.
Which founder skills should I install first?
Start with Measuring Product-Market Fit and Scoping & Cutting before you build. Add Vibe Coding or AI Product if you ship in code. Add Fundraising and Pitch Deck when you are actively raising.
How are skills different from prompts on this site?
Prompts are one-shot copy-paste instructions for ChatGPT or Claude chat. Skills persist in your coding agent and trigger automatically when relevant, which is better for repeated founder workflows like discovery, PRDs, and launch prep.