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AI Engineering

Start Here

by AIDevGTM

Start Here is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by AIDevGTM in gtm-cofounder.

176 stars21 forkson AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounderAdded 2026/08/11+48% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/09
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Install Start Here
Copy Start Here into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder/tree/main/skills/00-start-here ~/.claude/skills/00-start-here

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
skills/00-start-here/SKILL.md in AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/00-start-here
Collection
One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering2451 skills

What Start Here does

Interview the founder once to create a founder brief that other GTM skills use as context, ensuring advice is specific to their real product, ICP, market, and stage. Use this first to avoid generic guidance.

Start Here is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Start Here comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai, ai-founders, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Start here (your founder brief)

Every other skill is only as sharp as what the agent knows about your business. This is that context. Do it once, and every skill after it gets personal.

Use this when: it's your first time here, or the advice you're getting feels generic and textbook because the agent doesn't actually know your product, your users, or your stage.

The core idea

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Start Here

  • What else does AIDevGTM publish alongside Start Here?

    Start Here is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Beyond the Wrapper, DevTool Homepage and First 50 Users. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Start Here does, and is maintained by AIDevGTM in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AIDevGTM/gtm-cofounder page.

  • How does Start Here compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Start Here ranks #2233 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Start Here against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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