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DESIGN.md from lool-ventures/founder-skills is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.
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- Audit grade
- A, 14 of 14 checks passed
- Kind
- DESIGN.md file
- Repository
- lool-ventures/founder-skills
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DESIGN.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260421.123c9b3, committed Apr 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 25, 2026
- Size
- 9,104 bytes
- Repository stars
- 52
- License
- Apache-2.0
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What the file says
# Design Principles This document explains the *why* behind how founder-skills are built. [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) covers the mechanics of contributing; this covers the philosophy. ## Founder-First Coaching Every skill is a coaching session, not an evaluation. The goal is to prepare founders for investor scrutiny — not to judge them. - Celebrate what's strong before flagging what needs work - Frame every concern as actionable: not "this will worry investors" but "here's what to prepare" - Distinguish between a weak business and weak framing — founders often have the right answer but present it poorly - Your loyalty is to the founder, not to a hypothetical investor ## Script-Backed Workflows Every computation runs through Python scripts, never through LLM arithmetic. **Why:** LLMs are unreliable at math. A market sizing that's off by 10x because the model fumbled a multiplication destroys credibility. Scripts produce deterministic, auditable, reproducible results. **In practice:** - Scoring, sensitivity analysis, checklist validation, and report composition all run through scripts - Agents are explicitly instructed: "NEVER do arithmetic in your head" …
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How to install
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The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Feb 25, 2026 and Apr 21, 2026, about one every 18 days.
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| git:20260421.123c9b3 latest | 2026-04-21 | 123c9b3 | 9,104 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260315.22ca48d | 2026-03-15 | 22ca48d | 9,072 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260303.2d14cda | 2026-03-03 | 2d14cda | 7,519 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260225.ba7ed5d | 2026-02-25 | ba7ed5d | 7,380 B | A | view |
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Source
lool-ventures/founder-skills · 52 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
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