Business & Operations

When the user wants help with pricing decisions, packaging, or monetization strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'packaging,' 'price increase,' 'value metric,' 'Van Westendorp,' 'willingness to pay,' or 'monetization.' This skill covers pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy.

Pre-mortem analysis that imagines a plan has failed, then works backward to identify causes and preventions. Use before launches, major decisions, or risky initiatives to surface hidden risks.

Expert in launching small, focused SaaS products fast - the indie hacker approach to building profitable software. Covers idea validation, MVP development, pricing, launch strategies, and growing to sustainable revenue. Ship in weeks, not months. Use when: micro saas, indie hacker, small saas, side project, saas mvp.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "calculate TAM", "determine SAM", "estimate SOM", "size the market", "calculate market opportunity", "what's the total addressable market", or requests market sizing analysis for a startup or business opportunity.

Use when evaluating business model viability, analyzing profitability per customer/product/transaction, validating startup metrics (CAC, LTV, payback period), making pricing decisions, assessing scalability, comparing business models, or when user mentions unit economics, CAC/LTV ratio, contribution margin, customer profitability, break-even analysis, or needs to determine if a business can be profitable at scale.

Use this skill when users need to analyze competitors, monitor market movements, benchmark features/pricing, identify market gaps, or understand competitive positioning. Activates for "what are competitors doing," market analysis, or differentiation strategy.

Expert in community-led growth (CLG) - leveraging user communities to drive acquisition, retention, and expansion. Covers building developer communities, user groups, ambassador programs, and turning customers into advocates. Knows the difference between community as a feature vs community as a growth engine, and how to measure community ROI. Use when "community-led, CLG, ambassador program, champion program, user community, developer community, word of mouth, user group, " mentioned.

Trip planning, itineraries, and destination research

Technology recommendations, comparisons, and buying guidance

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create financial projections", "build a financial model", "forecast revenue", "calculate burn rate", "estimate runway", "model cash flow", or requests 3-5 year financial planning for a startup.

Use when choosing or evaluating a startup revenue model, pricing/value metric, packaging/tier design, or calculating unit economics (LTV, CAC, payback, gross margin, NRR), including usage-based/credit/AI pricing and variable compute/COGS constraints.

Expert product strategy covering market analysis, competitive positioning, go-to-market planning, and product-led growth.

When the user wants help with pricing decisions, packaging, or monetization strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'packaging,' 'price increase,' 'value metric,' 'Van Westendorp,' 'willingness to pay,' or 'monetization.' This skill covers pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy.

Pre-mortem analysis that imagines a plan has failed, then works backward to identify causes and preventions. Use before launches, major decisions, or risky initiatives to surface hidden risks.

Expert in launching small, focused SaaS products fast - the indie hacker approach to building profitable software. Covers idea validation, MVP development, pricing, launch strategies, and growing to sustainable revenue. Ship in weeks, not months. Use when: micro saas, indie hacker, small saas, side project, saas mvp.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "calculate TAM", "determine SAM", "estimate SOM", "size the market", "calculate market opportunity", "what's the total addressable market", or requests market sizing analysis for a startup or business opportunity.

Use when evaluating business model viability, analyzing profitability per customer/product/transaction, validating startup metrics (CAC, LTV, payback period), making pricing decisions, assessing scalability, comparing business models, or when user mentions unit economics, CAC/LTV ratio, contribution margin, customer profitability, break-even analysis, or needs to determine if a business can be profitable at scale.

Use this skill when users need to analyze competitors, monitor market movements, benchmark features/pricing, identify market gaps, or understand competitive positioning. Activates for "what are competitors doing," market analysis, or differentiation strategy.

Expert in community-led growth (CLG) - leveraging user communities to drive acquisition, retention, and expansion. Covers building developer communities, user groups, ambassador programs, and turning customers into advocates. Knows the difference between community as a feature vs community as a growth engine, and how to measure community ROI. Use when "community-led, CLG, ambassador program, champion program, user community, developer community, word of mouth, user group, " mentioned.

Manage Zendesk tickets, users, and support workflows through the Zendesk API. Use when searching tickets, updating support state, checking users, or exporting queue data.

Coordinate multiple agents on complex game development features using battle-tested spawn recipes. Triggers on: "multi-agent coordination", "team orchestration", "feature handoff", "cross-domain collaboration", or when a task spans multiple specialist domains (combat system, narrative feature, UI overhaul, performance pass, launch prep). Do NOT invoke for single-domain tasks -- route directly to the appropriate specialist. Part of the AlterLab GameForge collection.

Invoke when the user needs to plan a development sprint, break down tasks, schedule game work, or organize a sprint with cross-discipline dependencies. Triggers on: "sprint plan", "task breakdown", "development planning", "scheduling", "sprint backlog". Do NOT invoke for scope evaluation (use game-scope-check) or retrospectives (use game-retrospective). Part of the AlterLab GameForge collection.

Evaluate project scope against timeline and resources. Triggers on: "scope creep", "feature list", "can we fit this in", "timeline pressure", "resource constraints", "cut list", "scope evaluation". Do NOT invoke for sprint planning (use game-sprint-plan) or general project status (use game-producer). Part of the AlterLab GameForge collection.

Run a game development post-mortem rooted in the GDC tradition. Triggers on: "retrospective", "retro", "post-mortem", "lessons learned", "what went right", "what went wrong", "kill list review". Do NOT invoke for design document review (use game-design-review) or playtesting (use game-playtest). Part of the AlterLab GameForge collection.