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Founder Signal

Founder Signal turns verified Reddit and V2EX evidence into a small, reviewable signal package for founders evaluating product demand and positioning across one or more configured product profiles. Use this skill when the user wants founder research from Reddit or V2EX evidence, a scored review artifact, or a Draft page generated from verified candidate discussions. This skill depends on the canonical draft-cli skill. Draft is the default founder review surface, so Founder Signal emits a Draft-ready public publish intent whenever an Action Card exists. Public Draft publication requires explicit confirmation before the downstream draft-cli skill is invoked.

Audits

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Agentic behavior and permission review.

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Pattern checks against bundled files.

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Multi-engine malware detections and file reputation.

Install

openclaw skills install founder-signal

Founder Signal OpenClaw Skill

Use this skill to turn verified Reddit and V2EX evidence into a small, reviewable signal package for founders evaluating product demand and positioning across one or more configured product profiles.

Founder Signal Invariant

No saved verified snapshot means no scoring and no draft.

Every run must persist a run folder before later steps execute so failures still leave traceable artifacts. The skill should only score verified evidence and should only prepare a Draft handoff after daily-review.md exists for the selected profile. Actual public Draft publication requires explicit founder confirmation.

Setup Contract

After installation, ask the founder for one canonical Founder Signal JSON config, validate it, then import it into an internal runtime profile. Do not ask the founder to hand-edit profiles/*.json unless they explicitly want to debug the runtime.

Recommended flow:

  1. Share or fill founder-signal.config.example.json.
  2. Validate it:
python3 -m founder_signal doctor --config founder-signal.config.json
  1. Import it:
python3 -m founder_signal config import founder-signal.config.json
  1. Run it:
python3 -m founder_signal run --config founder-signal.config.json

The shell shortcut is also valid:

bash scripts/run_founder_signal_once.sh --config founder-signal.config.json

Canonical config requirements:

  • profile_id
  • product_name
  • product_one_liner
  • target_audience
  • keywords
  • scoring_terms
  • platforms
  • discovery_mode
  • max_candidates
  • draft.require_confirmation_before_public_publish: true

Reject legacy user-facing fields such as subreddits, seed_reddit_urls, excluded_reddit_urls, or any draft_publish_command escape hatch in canonical setup JSON. The import step writes an internal runtime profile under profiles/ plus a normalized canonical copy under config-imports/.

Inputs

  • one canonical Founder Signal config JSON during setup
  • one or more active imported product profiles from profiles/*.json
  • optional --profile <profile_id> selection for single-profile runs
  • platform configuration from the canonical platforms object or existing internal legacy profiles
  • deterministic Reddit/Eddrit research discovery from profile communities, keywords, and scoring terms; discovery always runs before configured Reddit hints
  • optional Reddit discovery_mode: live using subreddit new feeds with age/comment filtering and product-term matching
  • V2EX discovery through SOV2EX, search, node latest pages, or configured seed topics; third-party discovery is candidate-finding only
  • optional platform excluded_urls or legacy excluded_reddit_urls to suppress known old candidates
  • history_ttl_days to expire old private repeat-candidate exclusions
  • optional verified_evidence_snapshots when a Claw/browser agent has verified a source post but automated fetch is blocked

Draft Publish Handoff

Founder Signal depends on the canonical draft-cli skill for public Draft page publication. Draft handoff preparation is on by default: when Founder Signal creates daily-review.md, it also writes draft-publish-intent.json next to daily-review.md and does not hardcode Draft CLI subcommands. The intent contains the artifact path, title, profile, public visibility request, and requires_confirmation: true.

The agent must not invoke draft-cli public publish immediately after the intent is written. It must first show the founder what would become public, or clearly point to daily-review.md, then ask for explicit publish approval. This prevents unused public Draft pages from occupying cloud storage and keeps the public boundary reviewable.

The draft-cli skill is the source of truth for daemon readiness, page creation, append/patch behavior, public publishing, invite codes, and Draft URL extraction.

E2E Verification Playbook

When the founder asks for an end-to-end verification run, the agent must deliver a public Draft URL or clearly report E2E incomplete.

  1. Enable the target profiles.
  2. Use the built-in discovery phase. Do not start from placeholder URLs.
  3. Try the normal Eddrit search/listing and post mirror paths first.
  4. If the mirror is blocked, use browser/manual verification and add verified_evidence_snapshots to the profile:
{
  "platform": "reddit",
  "source_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/abc123/real_slug/",
  "verification_method": "agent_browser",
  "verified_by": "openclaw-agent",
  "text_snapshot": "Copy the relevant source post text observed by the agent here."
}

The snapshot must be real source text from the source post, not invented content. Placeholder URLs such as POST_ID, REAL_ID, SUB, /slug/, or V2EX placeholder topic IDs are invalid and must not be used. Founder Signal treats verified_read_via_agent_browser and verified_read_via_manual_snapshot as verified reads only after the snapshot is persisted.

Run E2E checks with:

python3 -m founder_signal run --config founder-signal.config.json --require-action-card --require-publish-intent

When the run creates draft-publish-intent.json, inspect its requires_confirmation field. If it is true, show the founder the public-boundary summary and ask for approval before invoking the required draft-cli skill. After approval, publish daily-review.md publicly and return the resulting public Draft URL to the founder. This Draft handoff preparation is part of normal Founder Signal operation, but the public publish action is confirmation-gated.

Outputs

  • runs/<RUN_ID>/run.json
  • runs/<RUN_ID>/REPORT.md
  • runs/<RUN_ID>/profiles/<profile_id>/run.json
  • runs/<RUN_ID>/profiles/<profile_id>/REPORT.md
  • runs/<RUN_ID>/profiles/<profile_id>/evidence/
  • runs/<RUN_ID>/profiles/<profile_id>/outputs/candidates.json
  • runs/<RUN_ID>/profiles/<profile_id>/selected-candidate.json when a verified candidate is selected
  • runs/<RUN_ID>/profiles/<profile_id>/daily-review.md when an Action Card is generated
  • runs/<RUN_ID>/profiles/<profile_id>/draft-publish-intent.json when public Draft publishing is prepared and awaiting confirmation
  • state/past-candidates.json as private local candidate history used to avoid repeat candidates in future runs

Action Cards use Source platform and Source URL labels and must not expose private local evidence paths in Draft-bound Markdown.

Manual Execution

python3 -m founder_signal doctor --config founder-signal.config.json
python3 -m founder_signal config import founder-signal.config.json
python3 -m founder_signal run --config founder-signal.config.json
bash scripts/run_founder_signal_once.sh
bash scripts/run_founder_signal_once.sh --profile draft
bash scripts/run_founder_signal_once.sh --config founder-signal.config.json --require-action-card --require-publish-intent

Without --profile, the runner processes all enabled profiles.

Bundled Runtime Payload

This published skill package includes the minimum local runtime payload needed to run from the installed skill directory:

  • scripts/run_founder_signal_once.sh
  • src/founder_signal/
  • founder-signal.config.example.json
  • profiles/README.md
  • profiles/draft.example.json

Before a real run, create one canonical config JSON, validate it, and import it. No Draft publish settings file is required; Draft review is part of the default flow, but public publication always remains confirmation-gated.

Runtime Order

  1. Load either all enabled profiles or one selected profile.
  2. For each profile, run enabled platform adapters, skipping profile exclusions and previous local candidate history before capping, then consider configured hints and verified snapshot fallbacks.
  3. Save evidence from mirror or verified snapshot fallback, enforce the verified-read gate, score only verified candidates, and optionally generate an Action Card.
  4. Write a public Draft publish intent whenever daily-review.md exists, marked as requiring confirmation before public publish.

Eddrit search/listing and post mirror pages are the Reddit read layer. V2EX discovery providers are never the verified evidence source; verified V2EX reads use the original https://www.v2ex.com/t/<topic_id> topic URL or future official API reads. Browser/manual fallback remains a verified snapshot path when automated reads are blocked.