founder-mindset SKILL.md skillA
founder-mindset from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/founder-mindset@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
founder-mindset/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 9,853 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
"Activate when: user says 'founder mindset' or 'founder mode'; asks 'default alive or default dead'; says 'do things that don't scale'; says 'am I avoiding the hard thing'; is deciding whether to hire/fire/pivot/raise/cut burn at an early-stage company; feels comfort-seeking creeping in; cannot tell if they are on the path to success or slow death.
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
# Founder Mindset ## Overview A specific cognitive mode for running an early-stage company — different from manager mindset (optimizing known systems) and employee mindset (executing within fixed scope). Founders search for the system itself under conditions of extreme uncertainty, asymmetric risk, and personal execution bottlenecks. The two load-bearing disciplines: **Default Alive or Default Dead** (Graham 2015) and **doing things that don't scale** (Graham 2013). **Compose:** [first-principles](../first-principles/SKILL.md) on inherited assumptions about how companies operate · [regret-minimization](../regret-minimization/SKILL.md) for the decision to start or quit · [inversion](../inversion/SKILL.md) to surface failure paths founders underweight · [lean-startup](../lean-startup/SKILL.md) + [mvp](../mvp/SKILL.md) operationally · [metacognition](../metacognition/SKILL.md) to catch monitoring lapses under founder stress. ## When to Use …
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How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/founder-mindset@sha256:4e1d3ef95435488cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 9,853 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 9,853 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 9,853 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 9,853 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 9,853 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 (9853 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
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sl6ow5diux5npzpf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/founder-mindset GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4e1d3ef95435488cade040962c20014bfbb87ad9efa40b251937bdd2cce442bd
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