A public library of general-purpose, profession-shaped startup and product skills for Hermes and other agent systems.
These skills are written to be:
- reusable across companies, founders, and products
- portable across agent environments
- structured for real operational judgment, not one-off prompt tricks
- strong on boundaries, pitfalls, examples, and verification
This repo is not for company-specific or project-specific instructions. Project-specific context belongs in project docs, not in the skill bodies.
levelupskills maps startup building into reusable expert functions:
- research
- company design
- product
- engineering
- security
- finance
- pricing
- legal / compliance
- payments
- growth
- sales
- support
- customer success
- analytics
- AI product ops
- brand
- communication
- operations
- strategy
- people
Think of each skill as: "load a sharp operator for this category."
The repo now follows a stronger 2026-2027-style skill standard.
A strong skill in this library should usually include:
- trigger-rich description
## Overview## When to Use- counter-triggers / adjacent-skill boundaries
- domain-specific workflow and coverage
## Common Pitfalls## Verification Checklist## Examples
See:
See SETUP.md for cross-agent installation and setup.
See references/using-levelupskills-across-agents.md for portable usage patterns.
hermes skills tap add levelscorner/levelupskillsVerify:
hermes skills tap listhermes skills install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/levelscorner/levelupskills/main/skills/management/startup-company-design/SKILL.md --yeshermes -s startup-company-design,founder-operating-system,product-discovery-and-prioritization/skill startup-company-design
- installing a skill and loading a skill are different steps
hermes skills install ...puts the skill on diskhermes -s ...or/skill ...activates the skill in a session- if a session does not pick up a new skill immediately, start a fresh session or reset session context
These skills are written as portable instruction files. You can also adapt them into:
- Claude
- Cursor
- Gemini
- terminal/CLI agents
- other chat-based or project-rule agent systems
For non-Hermes systems, copy the relevant SKILL.md body into that system's instruction surface.
startup-company-designproduct-discovery-and-prioritizationcustomer-research-and-user-interviewsstartup-risk-register-and-decision-making
founder-operating-systemtechnical-architecture-and-platform-decisionsindia-tech-company-legal-compliancestartup-finance-and-unit-economicspricing-and-packaging-strategy
devops-and-reliability-planningsecurity-privacy-and-risk-reviewpayment-gateway-selection-for-softwarecustomer-support-and-feedback-opsanalytics-and-metrics-system
gtm-and-growth-experimentsfounder-sales-for-b2bcustomer-success-for-b2bbrand-positioning-and-messaging
hiring-and-people-ops-for-startupsorg-design-after-first-hiresvendor-selection-and-procurementpartnerships-and-business-developmentcommunity-led-growthmarketplace-and-network-effects-strategy
technology-adoption-researchagentic-stack-research
startup-company-designfounder-operating-systemstartup-risk-register-and-decision-makingfounder-communication-and-updates
product-discovery-and-prioritizationcustomer-research-and-user-interviews
technical-architecture-and-platform-decisionsdevops-and-reliability-planning
security-privacy-and-risk-review
startup-finance-and-unit-economics
pricing-and-packaging-strategy
india-tech-company-legal-compliance
payment-gateway-selection-for-software
gtm-and-growth-experimentsb2c-growth-and-content-loopscommunity-led-growth
b2b-sales-discovery-and-pipelinefounder-sales-for-b2b
partnerships-and-business-development
customer-support-and-feedback-ops
customer-success-for-b2b
analytics-and-metrics-system
ai-product-evaluation-and-model-ops
brand-positioning-and-messaging
concise-structured-communicationverdict-first-writingresponse-articulation-pattern
vendor-selection-and-procurement
marketplace-and-network-effects-strategy
hiring-and-people-ops-for-startupsorg-design-after-first-hires
startup-company-designproduct-discovery-and-prioritizationcustomer-research-and-user-interviewsstartup-risk-register-and-decision-making
founder-operating-systemtechnical-architecture-and-platform-decisionsindia-tech-company-legal-compliancestartup-finance-and-unit-economicspricing-and-packaging-strategy
devops-and-reliability-planningsecurity-privacy-and-risk-reviewpayment-gateway-selection-for-softwarecustomer-support-and-feedback-opsanalytics-and-metrics-system
gtm-and-growth-experimentsfounder-sales-for-b2bcustomer-success-for-b2bbrand-positioning-and-messagingverdict-first-writingresponse-articulation-pattern
hiring-and-people-ops-for-startupsorg-design-after-first-hiresvendor-selection-and-procurementpartnerships-and-business-developmentcommunity-led-growthmarketplace-and-network-effects-strategy
- Use
references/solo-founder-company-function-map.mdto understand the full function map. - Load only the few skills relevant to the current problem or stage.
- Use function skills for general expert guidance.
- Save project-specific decisions in product/company repos, not inside these skills.
- Add new skills only when they are reusable across many products or teams.
- Prefer fewer strong skills over many thin ones.
skills/
research/
management/
product/
engineering/
security/
finance/
pricing/
legal/
payments/
growth/
community/
sales/
partnerships/
support/
customer-success/
analytics/
ai/
brand/
communication/
operations/
strategy/
people/
references/
2026-2027-skill-authoring-standards.md
brutal-skill-audit.md
research-taxonomy.md
solo-founder-company-function-map.md
using-levelupskills-across-agents.md
README.md
SETUP.md
This repository is building toward a reusable startup-function skill library: skills that map to real professional roles, not one-off project notes.