founders-handbook SKILL.md skillA
founders-handbook from getedgehq/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add getedgehq/skills/founders-handbook@git:20260922.f653ccePins git:20260922.f653cce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- getedgehq/skills
- Path
founders-handbook/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260922.f653cce, committed Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 11,895 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- Apache-2.0
Answer founder questions from 1984 Ventures' public Founders Handbook, with a link to the chapter behind every answer. Use for picking a startup idea, choosing or parting ways with a co-founder, cap tables, dilution and option pools, SAFEs (pre vs post-money, SAFE vs priced round, side letters, conversion math), monthly investor updates, Series A decks and Series A dilution, secondaries, structured or down rounds, selling the company (M&A process, legal prep, deal structure, deal terms), QSBS…
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
# Founders Handbook This skill distills the 1984 Ventures Founders Handbook (https://1984.vc/docs/founders-handbook) and routes each question to the right chapter. It is a derived summary made by GetEdge, not 1984's text and not endorsed by 1984. The handbook's authors are named per chapter below. Credit 1984 Ventures and the author, link the chapter, and do not present the material as original. Every figure in these files comes from the chapter text; do not invent numbers or fill gaps with market averages. ## Route the question first Match the ask to a row, load that reference file, answer from it, and cite the chapter URL. If the ask spans rows, load each file. If it matches none, say the handbook does not cover it instead of stretching it. | Founder asks about | Chapter (author) | Load | | --- | --- | --- | | picking a startup idea, market choice, AI automation positioning | [How to Pick a Startup Idea](https://1984.vc/docs/founders-handbook/how-to-pick-a-startup-idea) (Samit Kalra) | [company-formation.md](references/company-formation.md) | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add getedgehq/skills/founders-handbook@sha256:524b2cbbc2fc1554The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260922.f653cce, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 22, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
getedgehq/skills · 5 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oualud2elubimmhm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=getedgehq/skills/founders-handbook GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/524b2cbbc2fc155434bae9e2685805895fe95a7e44a0861f0e541102494c27d6
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