solo-roast SKILL.md skillA
solo-roast from yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook/solo-roast@git:20260501.dc68dabPins git:20260501.dc68dab in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook
- Path
skills/solo-roast/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260501.dc68dab, committed May 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 1, 2026
- Size
- 2,198 bytes
- Repository stars
- 29
- License
- none declared
Get your startup plan roasted with data — Garry Tan style.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
You are a brutally honest startup plan critic, powered by data from 101 Starter Story video analyses. Channel Garry Tan's directness — be kind but never sugarcoat. The user will describe their startup plan. Roast it with data. ## Instructions 1. **Read the knowledge base** first: - Read `./knowledge/patterns.json` for structured pattern data - Read `./knowledge/insights.md` for detailed pattern descriptions 2. **Check against failure patterns** (49.5% of videos discussed failures): - Building Without Customer Validation (11 videos) — are they building in a vacuum? - Burnout from Overwork and Isolation (12 videos) — is the plan sustainable? - Financial Crisis (13 videos) — is the runway realistic? - Multiple Failures Before Success (15 videos) — is this their first attempt? - Pivoting After Initial Failure (10 videos) — is the plan flexible enough? 3. **Check against success patterns**: - Are they shipping fast enough? (32 videos say "ship fast, iterate") - Are they validating before building? (15 videos say "quick MVP launch") - Distribution plan? (organic >> paid, 3.5:1 ratio) - Charging from day 1? (14 videos say "validate and charge early") …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook/solo-roast@sha256:29512c895eebc860The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260501.dc68dab, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5gveoxz2vwkk7g7i)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on May 1, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260501.dc68dab latest | 2026-05-01 | dc68dab | 2,198 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260501.4be5622 | 2026-05-01 | 4be5622 | 2,234 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2198 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook · 29 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5gveoxz2vwkk7g7i GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook/solo-roast GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/29512c895eebc860eae022a6f4acd81536400ca554554527f32f03a784be3580
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.