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founder-coach

Personal leadership development for founders and first-time CEOs. Covers founder archetype identification, delegation frameworks, energy management, CEO calendar audits, leadership style evolution, blind spot identification, imposter syndrome, founder mental health, and succession planning. Use when a founder feels like the bottleneck, struggles to delegate, is burning out, transitioning from IC to executive, managing a board, or when user mentions founder mode, CEO growth, leadership development, delegation, burnout, or imposter syndrome.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

53%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

The body contains genuinely useful, concrete founder-development frameworks with good section organization, but it is dragged down by sections restating common coaching knowledge, the absence of any validation checkpoints or an end-to-end usage flow, and — most seriously — two prominently referenced reference files that do not exist in the bundle.

Suggestions

Create the referenced `references/founder-toolkit.md` and `references/leadership-growth.md` (or remove the references); as delivered, both are dangling and the promised energy-audit template and leadership-framework detail are unavailable.

Trim sections that restate knowledge Claude already has — the burnout symptom progression, imposter-syndrome reframes, and the Paul Graham Founder Mode essay summary — and delete the 'Keywords' section, which duplicates the frontmatter description's triggers.

Add a brief usage workflow at the top (e.g., diagnose via the key questions, identify archetype, then select the matching framework) so the ten sections read as a sequenced coaching process rather than a topical reference.

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Conciseness

The curated frameworks earn their place, but several sections restate knowledge Claude already has: generic burnout symptom progressions ('Irritability, difficulty sleeping... cynicism about the company'), standard imposter-syndrome reframes, a summary of Paul Graham's Founder Mode essay, and a 'Keywords' section that duplicates the frontmatter description's triggers. This fits 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened' — more than the minor trimmable instances of level 4, but not the pervasive padding of level 2.

3 / 5

Actionability

Mostly concrete, executable guidance: a 5-level delegation ladder, a Skill x Will matrix, calendar-audit target percentages with red-flag thresholds ('Admin > 20%', 'Strategy < 10%'), four succession readiness levels, and scripted diagnostic questions. It falls short of level 5 because some guidance remains directional rather than executable ('Protect deep work time', 'Find out why. Fix the environment or accept the mismatch'), and there is no example dialogue or worked case.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Individual procedures have defined steps ('Pull the last 4 weeks of calendar data. Categorize every meeting/block', the numbered blind-spot discovery methods), but there are no validation checkpoints or feedback loops, and the ten sections form a topical collection with no overall sequence telling Claude how to deploy them in a coaching conversation. This matches 'steps listed but validation gaps; sequence present but checkpoints missing or implicit' — above level 2 because the steps that exist are well defined, below level 4 because checkpoints are absent.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body clearly signals references ('See `references/founder-toolkit.md` for the full template' and the 'Detailed References' section), but no references/ directory exists in the bundle — both referenced files are dangling, so navigation is broken. Additionally, substantial framework detail that belongs in those reference files is inlined in a ~285-line body. This fits 'minimal structure; content that clearly belongs in separate files is inlined' plus broken navigation; it is above level 1 because sections are well organized with clear headers, but below level 3 because the references are missing entirely rather than merely under-signaled.

2 / 5

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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 description: third-person, specific, and comprehensive on both capabilities and triggers, with an explicit 'Use when...' clause covering situational and keyword triggers. The only weakness is that a few broadly applicable trigger terms ('delegation', 'burnout', 'leadership development') could fire for non-founder users.

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Specificity

The description enumerates nine concrete capabilities — 'founder archetype identification, delegation frameworks, energy management, CEO calendar audits, leadership style evolution, blind spot identification, imposter syndrome, founder mental health, and succession planning' — giving comprehensive coverage of the domain. This matches the anchor 'Lists multiple specific concrete actions; comprehensive coverage' and exceeds level 4, which would require noticeable coverage gaps.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers 'what' (the nine enumerated capabilities) and 'when' via a concrete 'Use when...' clause listing situational and keyword triggers. This is the anchor-5 pattern ('clearly and explicitly answers both what AND when with concrete trigger phrases'); level 4 would mean the 'when' was present but less specific.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

It includes natural phrases users would actually say: 'feels like the bottleneck, struggles to delegate, is burning out, transitioning from IC to executive, managing a board' plus keyword triggers 'founder mode, CEO growth, leadership development, delegation, burnout, or imposter syndrome'. Coverage of natural terms and synonyms is comprehensive; level 4 would require a few missing common variations, which is not the case.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The founder/CEO coaching niche is clear, but trigger terms like 'leadership development', 'delegation', and 'burnout' are phrases a non-founder manager or IC could naturally say, creating minor overlap risk with general leadership-coaching or productivity skills. This fits 'Mostly distinct; minor overlap risk with closely related skills'; it is above level 3 (the domain and triggers are clearly founder-scoped, e.g. 'founder mode', 'IC to executive', 'board') but short of level 5's minimal conflict risk.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

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

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Referenced path issues: 3 missing

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Repository

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Path

.gemini/skills/founder-coach/SKILL.md

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