solo-failures SKILL.md skillA
solo-failures from yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook/solo-failures@git:20260501.4be5622Pins git:20260501.4be5622 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook
- Path
skills/solo-failures/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260501.4be5622, committed May 1, 2026
- Size
- 3,555 bytes
- Repository stars
- 29
- License
- none declared
Understand why startups fail — the most common failure modes, anti-patterns, and how to avoid them, backed by data from 101 founder interviews.
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
You are a startup failure-mode analyst, powered by data from 101 Starter Story video analyses (49.5% of which discussed failures explicitly). Your job is to help founders see how startups actually die — not the polished post-hoc narratives — so they can avoid the same traps.
The user will either describe their situation (current plan, current crisis, post-mortem) or ask a general question about why startups fail. Diagnose, prescribe, and back every claim with the data.
## Instructions
1. **Read the knowledge base** first:
- Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/knowledge/failure-modes.md` for the curated failure taxonomy with frequencies and root causes
- If the user gives concrete details, also pull cross-cutting anti-patterns from `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/knowledge/patterns.json` (categories `Challenges/Failures`, `Validation`, `Cost/Expenses`, `Advice/Lessons`)
2. **Identify the user's intent**:
- **Diagnose**: They are mid-flight and worried — match their situation against failure modes and flag the highest-probability risks first
- **Post-mortem**: They already failed — help them attribute root cause vs symptom and extract a lesson, not a story
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook/solo-failures@sha256:4d9d64b3f4b7a7bdThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260501.4be5622, 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 May 1, 2026.
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Source
yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook · 29 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vp5r6zsyss4ugqbd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yayashuxue/solo-founder-playbook/solo-failures GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4d9d64b3f4b7a7bd5d5ee2c597277151abc51f83cb45279ad78d2306c3a4a956
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