first-hires-playbook SKILL.md skillA
first-hires-playbook from leadmagic/gtm-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add leadmagic/gtm-skills/first-hires-playbook@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- leadmagic/gtm-skills
- Path
skills/founder-led/first-hires-playbook/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 8, 2026
- Size
- 13,287 bytes
- Repository stars
- 76
- License
- MIT
Complete playbook for founder's first 10 hires beyond sales. Use when hiring first engineer, first CS, first marketer, first product manager, or building founding team. Covers when to hire each role, job description architecture, compensation benchmarking, interview process design, and offer construction.
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
# First Hires Playbook ## Overview Your first 10 hires define your company's trajectory more than any product decision. The mistake: hiring generalists with "good vibes" instead of role-specific operators who can build the function from zero. This skill covers when to hire each critical first role, how to write job descriptions that attract builders (not corporate ladder-climbers), interview design, compensation, and offer construction. ## Authoritative Foundations - **SaaStr/Jason Lemkin** — First VP hiring benchmarks - **Elad Gil** — High Growth Handbook (hiring executives) - **Molly Graham** — Giving away your Legos (scaling teams) - **Patty McCord** — Powerful (Netflix culture, hiring for density) - **Claire Hughes Johnson** — Scaling People (Stripe COO) - **First Round Review** — Hiring playbooks ## When to Use Trigger phrases: "first hire", "first engineer", "first CS hire", "hiring playbook", "founding team", "early hires", "when to hire marketing", "first product hire", "hiring timeline by ARR stage" ## Hiring Timeline by ARR | Role | When | Why Then | |---|---|---| | **Founding Engineer** | $0-500K | Build product alongside you | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add leadmagic/gtm-skills/first-hires-playbook@sha256:aedf93a85e51825cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 8, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 23 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-01 | ca0d2ec | 13,287 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-02 | a19750a | 13,517 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-10 | e030e67 | 13,511 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-10 | 17b6e1f | 14,103 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-10 | 9f00d65 | 14,104 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-08 | 07ce0cd | 13,865 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 (13287 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
leadmagic/gtm-skills · 76 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dwfum22hsrgk5xcw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=leadmagic/gtm-skills/first-hires-playbook GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aedf93a85e51825c75f02ec0934aa8135633d29a28dbbe7b768033d320958232
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.