rickmanelius-skills

Save Your Startup — Claude Code Skills

Claude Code skills based on Save Your Startup by Rick Manelius.

Installation

In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add rickmanelius/skills
/plugin install save-your-startup

That's it — Claude Code will fetch the repo and register all 12 skills automatically.

Skills

This book stands on the shoulders of giants. You'll see well cited playbooks in the list below, which I've adapted for startups.

Skill	Command	When to use
Paint Done	/sys:paint-done	Define "done" before any work begins
Chunk	/sys:chunk	Break a 10-year vision into today's next action
High Medium Low	/sys:high-medium-low	Define scope tiers so you build the right amount
Assumptions Audit	/sys:assumptions-audit	Surface hidden cost and revenue assumptions
Napkin Math	/sys:napkin-math	Walk backward from a revenue target to daily growth
Capability Willingness Matrix	/sys:capability-willingness-matrix	Assess if you have the skills AND willingness
Founder Type Check	/sys:founder-type-check	Honest check — delusional, pretender, or real deal
Fear Setting	/sys:fear-setting	Name fears, write mitigations, rate severity
WIIFM Check	/sys:wiifm-check	7 questions every prospect silently asks
Five Finger Pitch	/sys:five-finger-pitch	Build a 5-finger, 5-minute verbal pitch
Ruthless Elimination	/sys:ruthless-elimination	Reclaim 5-15 hours/week with Delete, Delegate, Delay
Break Bottleneck	/sys:break-bottleneck	Find and fix your #1 throughput constraint

Over 50 candidate skills were identified from the book — these 12 scored highest on universality, power, and AI-transferability. See the full ranking and file an issue if you'd like another one included.

Quickstart

Not sure where to begin? See starter-questions.md for 2-3 sample prompts per skill you can copy-paste to try them out immediately.

About

Built by Rick Manelius — repeat founder, Techstars All-Star Mentor.

License

MIT