What does this skill do, and when should you use it?
This is the company-values skill from slavingia/skills, a 10-skill collection based on Sahil Lavingia's book The Minimalist Entrepreneur. It turns Claude into a business advisor who guides you through defining your company's values and cultural foundation. The skill includes Gumroad's four real values (Judged by the Work, Seek Superlinearities, Everyone is a CEO, Dare to Be Open) as starting examples, plus a five-question diagnostic method and guidance on operationalizing values and remote-work accountability. It runs no scripts and reads no files — everything happens in conversation.
Through dialogue it does four things: explains why values matter (daily behavioral guidance, attracting and repelling the right people, scaling beyond the founder); walks through each of Gumroad's four values and the real policies behind them; leads the user through five diagnostic questions (What do you believe that most don't? How should people behave when no one is watching? What would you fire someone for even if they perform well? What would you celebrate regardless of bottom line?); and produces structured deliverables — 3-5 values with example stories, how each shows up in hiring and day-to-day work, and anti-patterns for each. It also covers async remote accountability with concrete tool roles (Slack, GitHub, Notion). No tools, scripts, or files are involved.
- A founder about to make their first hire who wants the culture written down before anyone joins
- A founding team turning口头 culture into a publishable values doc for the careers page or onboarding
- A manager who wants to use values in feedback and needs positive and negative behavior lists per value
- A remote-team lead building accountability around async communication and outcomes rather than surveillance
- A reader of The Minimalist Entrepreneur who wants to apply the book's culture methodology directly to their own company
How do you install this skill?
- License and attribution are unknown; confirm terms before use.
- Example values come from Gumroad's specific culture and may not fit all organizations; treat as inspiration, not templates.
- Static review only — no execution; actual output quality depends on the model conversation.
- Content is English-only; Chinese users must translate and adapt themselves.
Install the full skill collection in Claude Code (all 10 skills register together):
/plugin marketplace add slavingia/skills
/plugin install minimalist-entrepreneur
Or install from a local clone:
bash
git clone https://github.com/slavingia/skills.git ~/.claude/plugins/skills
Then in Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add ~/.claude/plugins/skills
/plugin install minimalist-entrepreneur
The repo documents no way to install this skill on its own.
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slavingia/skills.git "$tmp"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/skills/company-values" ~/.claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"Generated from the source repository and skill path; it copies only this skill's folder. If the author's install steps above differ, follow those first. To scope it to one project, replace ~/.claude/skills with that project's .claude/skills.
How do you use this skill?
Once installed, send your agent any of these to trigger it:
- I'm about to hire my first employee and want to define company values first.
In Claude Code, invoke /company-values or describe your situation, e.g. "I'm about to hire my first employee and want to define company values first." The skill walks you through the five diagnostic questions, then drafts 3-5 values with hiring applications, day-to-day expressions, and anti-patterns. Output quality depends on how candidly you answer — it's a pure conversational skill requiring no files or permissions.
What are this skill's strengths and limitations?
- Content comes straight from Sahil Lavingia's book and his firsthand experience running Gumroad — the value examples are real, not generic templates
- Complete methodology: diagnostic questions, story-based value writing, operationalization, and anti-patterns with a clear output structure
- Concrete remote-work accountability guidance with specific tool roles (Slack / GitHub / Notion), especially useful for remote-first companies
- Pure text instructions with zero external dependencies — works in any Agent Skills-compatible client
- The value examples are deeply Gumroad-specific (public salaries, welcoming employees who leave to start companies) and won't suit every company without adaptation
- No scripts, template files, or tests — output consistency depends entirely on how well the model follows the instructions
- Repository license is unknown, leaving reuse and redistribution rights unclear
- The methodology skews toward early-stage minimalist startups; there is no guidance on integrating with established HR processes in larger organizations
How does this skill compare with similar options?
Side by side with related skills; every score comes from the same FSRS standard.
| Skill | FS score | Stars | Last updated | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company Values Definition Skill this page | 57 · Use with care | ★ 11k | 6mo ago | — |
| Processize — Manual-First Delivery | 53 · Use with care | ★ 11k | 6mo ago | — |
| Find Community | 50 · Use with care | ★ 11k | 6mo ago | — |
| Grow Sustainably Advisor | 49 · Use with care | ★ 11k | 6mo ago | — |
| Minimalist Review | 54 · Use with care | ★ 11k | 6mo ago | — |
The sibling minimal-review skill in the same repo gut-checks individual business decisions, while this skill focuses on systematically defining company culture and values — the two are complementary.
How did FollowSkills review this skill?
Pure prompt-based advisory skill: no scripts, no external calls, no data egress; least-privilege and rollback risks are inherently low. Deducted for unknown license, unverified publisher identity, and embedding Gumroad-specific values without declaring applicability limits.
Instructions are self-consistent and well-structured (rationale → example values → creation steps → operationalization → output format); happy path plausible. Deducted for no tests, no edge-case examples, and no failure-feedback design for abnormal inputs.
Trigger conditions reasonably clear in the description (defining culture, preparing to hire); output format explicit. Deducted for missing non-fit boundaries, no Chinese-language context consideration, and highly context-specific advice (public salaries, no meetings) with no cultural-fit caveats.
Well-organized document with README installation notes and command mapping. Deducted for no license, no versioning/changelog, no known-limitations section, no maintenance ownership, and values hard-coded into the prompt.
Core task (drafting 3-5 values plus hiring/daily/anti-pattern applications) is fully specified and directly usable; deducted because nothing is execution-verified, quality depends on model conversation, and marginal value over direct consulting is modest.
Value content traces to The Minimalist Entrepreneur and Gumroad's public practices — limited primary material. Deducted for no third-party execution evidence, no tests, and unattributed per-item quotes.
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Evidence confidence：Low — Mostly static review, author material or a limited demo; useful for discovery, not high-risk decisions.
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