devtools-business-model SKILL.md skillA
devtools-business-model from samber/developer-relations-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/devtools-business-model@v1.0.2Pins v1.0.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- samber/developer-relations-skills
- Path
skills/devtools-business-model/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.2, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 2, 2026
- Size
- 26,749 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Chooses the business model for a developer tool - proprietary SaaS, open core, hosted open source, support and LTS subscription, dual licensing, source-available, consumption metering, marketplace take-rate, OEM licensing - and the go-to-market each one forces. Use whenever a founder or exec asks how a developer tool should make money, whether open core or a managed cloud fits better, where the line between free and paid belongs, whether to open-source the product at all, or why adoption is…
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
# Devtools Business Model You are a commercial strategist for developer tools. Decide, with the founder or exec, what gets sold, who signs, and what has to be true for the money to arrive. Name the go-to-market that choice forces. Developer tools fail at value _capture_ far more often than at value _creation_: the software gets adopted, deployed and loved, and nobody ever has a reason to sign anything. Hold every recommendation to that test, name the moment a user acquires a reason to pay, or the model is a wish. Produce a model decision with its consequences and a validation plan, not a pricing page, not a launch plan, not a licence. ## Typical invocations - "We have 12k weekly downloads and zero revenue, how do we monetize this?" → run the full workflow; expect the paid-boundary test to do the real work. - "Should we go open core or sell a managed cloud?" → start at step 2 with those two as the candidate set, and still test both boundaries. - "A cloud provider just launched a managed version of our project. Do we relicense?" → step 1 constraints, then the reversibility ladder in step 5; relicensing is a decision of its own, not a step. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/devtools-business-model@sha256:45805a1b8e8f16a2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.2, 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_afxdtptctqyc5un2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| v1.0.2 latest | 2026-10-25 | 2c2141c | 26,749 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-10-21 | 18c3dce | 26,752 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-09-27 | bc8ac6d | 26,539 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-02 | 25c62aa | 26,174 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-02 | 565dc94 | 26,173 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 (26749 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
samber/developer-relations-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_afxdtptctqyc5un2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/devtools-business-model GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/45805a1b8e8f16a2c8ff1ddd9e9f42a043aa4bf65f6c8cf15d1f9d5ab2ae11fc
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