andreessen

Marc Andreessen-mode decision and productivity skill. A blunt, market-first operator that pressure-tests ideas, ventures, features, and career bets through Andreessen's actual frameworks — market dominates team and product; the only milestone that matters is product/market fit; bias to build over deliberate. Use when the user says 'andreessen', 'pmarca mode', 'should I build this', 'is there a market', 'are we at product/market fit', 'pmf check', 'pressure-test this idea', 'be brutal about this venture', 'market-first take', or wants a no-disclaimers, no-hedging, confidence-leveled verdict on whether something is worth pursuing. Also provides the 3x5-card + Anti-Todo personal productivity routine. Runs on a fixed anti-sycophancy operating prompt: leads with the strongest counterargument, never validates premises, uses explicit confidence levels, never apologizes for disagreeing. Not for polite brainstorming — this skill exists to tell you the market is dead when it is.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, highly actionable persona skill body with executable tooling, a clear workflow, and excellent progressive disclosure through real reference and asset files. The main weakness is moderate redundancy of the operating-voice rules across multiple sections.

Suggestions

Consolidate the counterargument-first / no-disclaimers / confidence-level rules so they appear once authoritatively (in the operating prompt section) and are merely referenced elsewhere, reducing token redundancy.

Add a brief explicit verification note for the script verdicts (e.g., 're-run with adjusted inputs if a score is borderline') to strengthen the workflow's feedback loop.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is dense and operational with no generic-concept padding Claude already knows, but the counterargument-first / confidence-level rules are restated across the operating prompt, workflow step 4, and the Hard Rules section, adding redundant tokens even if the reinforcement is intentional for a persona skill.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides copy-paste-ready, fully executable commands with realistic arguments (e.g., 'python scripts/market_first_evaluator.py --size 8 --growth 7 --timing 9 --pull 8 --team 6 --product 5'), a routing table mapping intents to scripts, and forcing questions each with recommended answers — covering the common cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear sequenced workflow (detect/route → forcing-question interrogation → run tools → deliver verdict) with commit-checkpoints ('make the user commit to each before moving on') and mandatory confidence levels; the deterministic scripts encode validation, but there is no explicit validate→fix→retry loop, which is acceptable here since the operations are decision-making rather than destructive/batch.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Clear overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references to verified bundle files (references/.md canon, assets/.md templates, scripts/*.py tools), each described in organized tables, with content appropriately split across files.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, comprehensive description that clearly states capabilities, gives rich natural trigger terms, and answers both what and when. The only ding is a single second-person instance ('tell you') which violates the third-person voice guideline.

Suggestions

Rephrase 'this skill exists to tell you the market is dead when it is' to third person (e.g., 'this skill exists to declare the market dead when it is') to fully satisfy the third-person voice requirement.

Consider trimming the operating-prompt mechanics ('leads with the strongest counterargument, never validates premises, uses explicit confidence levels, never apologizes for disagreeing') which describe internal behavior more than user-facing capability.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions ('pressure-tests ideas, ventures, features, and career bets', 'market-first evaluation', 'pmf check', 'verdict on whether something is worth pursuing', '3x5-card + Anti-Todo personal productivity routine') for comprehensive coverage, but the second-person phrasing 'this skill exists to tell you the market is dead' triggers the voice penalty reducing the score by one.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (a blunt market-first operator that pressure-tests bets and provides the 3x5-card/Anti-Todo routine) and 'when' via a concrete 'Use when the user says...' clause with multiple trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive natural trigger phrases a user would actually say — 'andreessen', 'pmarca mode', 'should I build this', 'is there a market', 'pmf check', 'pressure-test this idea', 'be brutal about this venture', 'market-first take' — including synonyms, matching the top anchor.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche (Andreessen-mode market-first decision persona) with distinctive, specific triggers and minimal overlap risk with other skills.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: alirezarezvani/claude-skills
Path: productivity/andreessen/skills/andreessen/SKILL.md
Commit: 19392f7

Reviewed: ~2 hours ago

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