engineer-to-founder SKILL.md skillA
engineer-to-founder 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/engineer-to-founder@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/engineer-to-founder/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 8, 2026
- Size
- 17,279 bytes
- Repository stars
- 76
- License
- MIT
Translate engineering strengths into founder-led GTM: customer discovery, positioning, demos, technical proof, founder sales habits, and first repeatable motion. Use when a technical founder needs to sell, do customer interviews, explain value without feature dumping, or build GTM confidence.
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
# Engineer to Founder ## Overview The best companies are built by engineers who became founders — Stripe, GitHub, Zapier, Notion, Figma, Vercel. But being a great engineer doesn't automatically make you a great founder. The transition from IC to CEO requires learning to sell, hire, fire, fundraise, and stare at existential risk without flinching. The mistake: thinking "I'll just build a great product and everything else will figure itself out." This skill covers the complete engineer-to-founder transition: when to quit your job, how to build and sell simultaneously, hiring when you've only ever coded alone, and the mental models that separate engineers who become successful founders from those who stay engineers with side projects. ## When to Use Trigger phrases: "engineer becoming founder", "technical founder", "IC to CEO", "developer starting a startup", "should I quit my job to start a company", "learning to sell as an engineer", "solo developer startup", "how to hire as a technical founder", "indie hacker to startup", "side project to company" ## Authoritative Foundations ### Patrick Collison (Stripe) — Speed as Strategy …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add leadmagic/gtm-skills/engineer-to-founder@sha256:53d8a5d41249e569The 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_s7wdk7yaoxy2q5xk)
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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.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-01 | ca0d2ec | 17,279 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-02 | a19750a | 17,286 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-10 | e030e67 | 17,280 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-10 | 17b6e1f | 17,281 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-10 | 9f00d65 | 17,282 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-08 | 07ce0cd | 16,222 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 (17279 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_s7wdk7yaoxy2q5xk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=leadmagic/gtm-skills/engineer-to-founder GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/53d8a5d41249e56987b11206993b73d4a7c84dd3eb6b726644ca475648000d8b
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.