The Minimalist Entrepreneur Skills
Ten Claude Code commands based on The Minimalist Entrepreneur: from finding a community and validating an idea to pricing, marketing and company values
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- The skills are text instructions for advice; they run nothing and make no network calls
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In your terminal, with SkillFoxx CLI
npx skillfoxx add skills/the-minimalist-entrepreneur-skillsDetects the agents on your machine, shows the access level and pins the version.
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- The skills are text instructions for advice; they run nothing and make no network calls
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What it does
The minimalist-entrepreneur plugin turns the ideas of Sahil Lavingia's book into ten Claude Code commands. They follow the book's path: /find-community looks for your audience, /validate-idea checks whether the problem is worth solving, /mvp trims the scope of a first product, /processize suggests delivering value by hand first, and /first-customers works toward your first hundred customers. Then /pricing helps set a price, /marketing-plan builds a content plan, /grow-sustainably weighs spending and hiring, /company-values prepares ground for culture, and /minimalist-review checks any decision against the book's principles. Each command calls a separate skill with its own SKILL.md. In the pricing skill, for example, the agent acts as a business advisor, opens with the principle to always charge something, then walks through pricing from costs and from customer value.
Who it is for. For solo founders and small teams who build a product without large funding and want a review in the book's method right in the terminal.
Good fit when
- You have no business idea and want to find a community whose problems you know from the inside
- You have an idea and need to check whether anyone pays for the solution before writing code
- Your first product is growing and you must decide what goes into the MVP
- You are choosing a price or about to change it
- Before a hire or a large spend you want to check against the principles of sustainable growth
Not a fit when
- You need a technical coding helper: the plugin handles business decisions only
- Your business runs on venture money and fast scaling, while the skills steer toward profitability and growth without outside funding
- You need market research with data and a competitor table: this is the book framework, with no data sources
- You want fresh analytics or statistics: the skills retell the author approach and search nothing on the web
Example request
/validate-idea A service that collects bus timetables for rural areas and sells a subscription to local councilsLimitations
The plugin is built for Claude Code, and the description mentions no other agents. The advice rests on the philosophy of one book and fits far from every business. Figures and examples in the skills come from the same source, so check them against current sources yourself. The skills search nothing on the web and do not know your market, so the quality of the review depends on how many details about your project you give. The repository has no LICENSE file; plugin.json states MIT.
How to disable. Run /plugin in Claude Code and remove minimalist-entrepreneur from the installed list. A copy from a local clone sits in ~/.claude/plugins/skills and can be deleted by hand.
FAQ
How do I install the Minimalist Entrepreneur skills in Claude Code?
Run /plugin marketplace add slavingia/skills and then /plugin install minimalist-entrepreneur. Claude Code fetches the repository and registers all ten skills. Alternatively, clone the repository into ~/.claude/plugins/skills and add the local marketplace.
Which command do I start with?
It depends on your stage. No idea yet: /find-community. Have an idea: /validate-idea. Ready to build: /mvp. If a product exists, /first-customers and /pricing help, and /grow-sustainably covers hiring and spending. The table in the description maps each command to a situation.
What does the /processize command do?
It turns a product idea into a manual process you can deliver to a customer today, before writing code. It is the fourth step of the book journey: community first, then validation and manual delivery, then productization.
Is this the book author's own project?
The repository sits on the slavingia account and plugin.json lists Sahil Lavingia as author. The project site points to minimalistentrepreneur.com.
How many skills are in the plugin, and can I install just one?
The plugin holds ten skills, each in its own skills/<name> folder with its own SKILL.md. Installation goes through /plugin install minimalist-entrepreneur as a whole; the description gives no command for a single skill.
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Comparison with similar tools
Entries that share the main search query, and how they differ.
| Entry | Official | Repository stars | Main difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Minimalist Entrepreneur Skills (this entry) | no | 10,950 | |
| Founder Skills (Emotix) | no | 714 | a founder set with a competitor matrix and pitch, not tied to one book |
| Startup Skill | no | 1,216 | a plugin with market research and competitor analysis |
README in short
The short description sets the goal: turn the book into a set of Claude Code commands. It gives two marketplace install commands, a variant from a local clone and a table of ten skills with a hint for when to use each. The end lists the steps of the entrepreneur journey, from finding a community to applying the principles to every decision.
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Original SKILL.md
--- name: pricing description: Help figure out pricing for a product or service using minimalist entrepreneur principles. Use when someone is setting prices, considering price changes, or struggling with what to charge. --- You are a business advisor channeling the philosophy of The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia. Help the user set the right price. ## Core Principle **Charge something. Always.** There is a massive difference between free and $1. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely calls it the "zero price effect" — people will line up for free brownies but the line disappears when you charge even 1 cent. If you don't charge, you can't stay alive, and you can't learn what customers actually value. ## Two Pricing Models ### 1. Cost-Based Pricing - Calculate your costs (hosting, time, materials, payment processing) - Add a margin (20-50% is typical) - Example: Retail stores buy wholesale and double the price (50% margin) - Best for: physical products, services with clear costs - Marketplaces like iTunes, iStockPhoto use this model ### 2. Value-Based Pricing - Price based on the value to the customer, not your costs - A feature might cost you nothing extra to deliver but be worth a lot to the customer - Example: Netflix's multi-screen feature costs them nothing but they charge a premium - Best for: software, digital products, services with high perceived value ## Pricing Principles 1. **Start low, raise over time.** Prices generally go up as products improve. That's expected and healthy. 2. **Pricing is not permanent.** It's just another thing to iterate on. Start the discovery process, don't aim for perfection. 3. **Tiered pricing is the goal.** Think of it like plane tickets — economy, business, first class. Same destination, different experience. Introduce tiers as you build brand and understand your customer segments. 4. **The zero price effect.** Never give your product away for free as your default. Even $1 creates a completely different dynamic. 5. **Free trials are table stakes.** Laura Roeder (MeetEdgar, Paperbell) notes that customers now expect free trials — they open six tabs and compare immediately. Offer trials, but always with a clear path to paid. 6. **Don't confuse marketing with giving away your product.** Advertising-driven models make it hard to start charging later. ## How to Set Your Initial Price Ask the user: 1. What are your variable costs per unit/customer? 2. What are competing/alternative solutions charging?