24 skills  ·  6 phases  ·  MIT license

From idea
to PMF —
with your agent

Founder Skills gives founder workflows to your coding agent. Start with Partner Skill, then run focused prompts that output concrete .md decisions you can execute immediately.

$ bash scripts/install.sh AGENT
works with pi Codex Claude Code

How it works

Three steps. One artifact.

Every skill follows the same pattern. You invoke, the agent runs the framework, you get a file you can act on.

01 — install

Clone & install

One command installs all 24 skills. Replace AGENT with pi, codex, or claude.

bash scripts/install.sh AGENT
02 — invoke

Say the phrase

Tell your agent what you need. Each skill has a plain-English trigger.

"Scope my MVP"
03 — act

Get a real artifact

The agent produces a .md file with specific decisions — not advice, not options.

mvp-brief.md

The journey

Six phases, 24 skills

Start where you are. Each phase has its own skills. Every skill outputs exactly one artifact.

⬡
Strategy
4 skills
→
◇
Design
3 skills
→
⬟
Build
4 skills
→
▷
Launch
4 skills
→
↺
Compound
3 skills
→
◎
PMF
5 skills

Start here

Partner Skill is different from every other skill

Use Partner Skill first. It reads your context, finds the highest-leverage move, and then routes you to the right specialist skill.

Partner Skill

Your AI founder operating partner

Unlike phase skills that answer one specific request, Partner Skill maintains continuity across sessions and helps you decide what matters right now.

🧠Reads founder-context.md + recent cycles before responding
🎯Identifies your most important bottleneck and what to do next
🧭Routes to the best phase skill instead of making you guess
✍️Updates context so progress compounds each week
"Partner"

Then use specialist skills

Ask by phase

Each phase has focused skills. Start from the question you're asking now, then run the matching skill.

Strategy
Validate before building
"Scope my MVP" · "Validate my problem"
Design
Clarify UX before UI polish
"Design my user flows" · "Review my UX"
Build
Make implementation decisions fast
"Pick my stack" · "Sequence my features"
Launch
Go to market with clarity
"Write my positioning" · "Build my launch plan"
Compound
Run the weekly founder loop
"Start a build cycle" · "Evaluate my MPP"
PMF
Read traction and scale what works
"Read my PMF signals" · "Diagnose my churn"

Partner Skill deep dive

Why Partner Skill has a special purpose

In Founder Skills, Partner Skill is your continuity layer. It reads your product context and cycle history first, then tells you the most important thing to do next and which specialist skill to run.

📖Reads founder-context.md + last 5 build cycles before saying anything
🔍Surfaces the thing you've been avoiding across cycles
→Routes you to the exact skill for the moment
🏁Tracks 13 milestones — first user through PMF Clear
✏️Updates your context file at the end of every session
❓Asks the hard question every session

Made for agents too

The full skill index is available as plain text so any agent can read and use it directly — no scraping needed.

llms.txt GitHub

Install

Ready in 30 seconds

Clone the repo, run one command. Skills install directly into your agent's skill directory.

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/gvkhosla/founder-skill-pack.git
cd founder-skill-pack

# Install all 24 skills
bash scripts/install.sh pi

# Or just one phase
bash scripts/install.sh pi strategy

Installs to ~/.pi/agent/skills/ — available across all your projects.

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/gvkhosla/founder-skill-pack.git
cd founder-skill-pack

# Generate AGENTS.md
bash scripts/install.sh codex

# Add to your project
cat skills/codex/AGENTS.md >> your-project/AGENTS.md

Parallel phases run sequentially in Codex — same output, same quality.

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/gvkhosla/founder-skill-pack.git
cd founder-skill-pack

# Install globally (all projects)
bash scripts/install.sh claude

# Or project-only
bash scripts/install.sh claude .

Global: ~/.claude/skills/ · Project: .claude/skills/