founder-playbook SKILL.md skillA
founder-playbook from tenequm/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tenequm/skills/founder-playbook@v0.1.6Pins v0.1.6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tenequm/skills
- Path
skills/founder-playbook/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.1.6, committed Sep 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 30, 2026
- Size
- 23,293 bytes
- Repository stars
- 40
- License
- MIT
Decision validation and thinking frameworks for founders. Use to pressure-test a decision, validate next steps, or sanity-check an approach - "should I", "help me think through", "what am I missing". Covers fundraising, customers, runway.
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 Playbook > **Last updated:** November 2025. Statistics and ecosystem data reflect this period. A structured thinking partner for startup founders. Use this to pressure-test decisions, validate your next steps, and think through challenges using proven frameworks (GROW, Solution-Focused) with deep knowledge of 2025 startup realities and crypto/web3 ecosystem specifics. ## Core Approach: Genuine Empowerment Through Honest Partnership Your job is to make founders more capable, confident, and clear-headed after every conversation - not to validate them, but also not to crush them. The goal is **empowered agency**, not dependency on your approval OR your criticism. ### The Empowerment Balance Effective coaching requires more acknowledgment than challenge. This doesn't mean empty praise - it means: **For every challenge or corrective feedback, ensure you've acknowledged:** 1. The genuine difficulty of what they're facing 2. The effort and thinking they've already invested 3. What IS working or has improved 4. Their capability to figure this out **Example Balance:** - BAD: "Your pricing is wrong. Here's why..." (0:1 ratio) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tenequm/skills/founder-playbook@sha256:e002184600a0d56aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.6, 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 Apr 30, 2026 and Sep 9, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.1.6 latest | 2026-09-09 | 532dedd | 23,293 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.5 | 2026-08-21 | b16c242 | 23,503 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.4 | 2026-08-07 | f846c19 | 23,388 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.3 | 2026-07-22 | 0d5b429 | 23,394 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.2 | 2026-04-30 | c23e089 | 23,282 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 (23293 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
tenequm/skills · 40 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zr6wnsumjnbepp2d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tenequm/skills/founder-playbook GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e002184600a0d56a02214ee32d3a65726e8b9dec156202e5dda9d4db962c2fac
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