Hard Screening Startup

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: languages

lang:pythontype:audit

Deterministic Python-scored startup screening with full audit trail. Use when you need a reproducible, weighted-score verdict on a startup — not just a qualitative opinion. Triggered by: "/venture-capital-intelligence:hard-screening-startup", "hard screen this startup", "run a hard screen on X", "score this startup with Python", "give me an auditable screen", "run a scored evaluation on X", "give me a weighted score for this startup", "screen with numbers", "objective startup score", "reproducible screen", "investment scorecard for X", "score this company out of 100", "run the full screen on X". Claude Code only. Requires Python 3.x. For conversational soft-mode screening, use /venture-capital-intelligence:soft-screening-startup.

What this skill does

Hard Screening Startup is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the languages sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/hard-screening-startup/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when you need a reproducible, weighted-score verdict on a startup — not just a qualitative opinion. Triggered by: "/venture-capital-intelligence:hard-screening-startup", "hard screen this startup", "run a hard screen on X", "score this startup with Python", "give me an auditable screen", "run a scored evaluation on X", "give me a weighted score for this startup", "screen with numbers", "objective startup score", "reproducible screen", "investment scorecard for X", "score this company out of 100", "run the full screen on X".

Who uses this skill

The Hard Screening Startup skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hard-screening-startup
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/hard-screening-startup/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/hard-screening-startup/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/hard-screening-startup/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/hard-screening-startup/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\hard-screening-startup\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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