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About this template

First Customer Finder (Codex)

Turn a startup URL or product idea into an evidence-backed shortlist of potential first customers — ICP, public pain/timing signals, scored prospects with source links, source-based openers, and a polished HTML report. Outreach is never sent automatically.

What you get

first-customer-finder skill at ~/.codex/skills/first-customer-finder/
/first-customer-finder prompt + AGENTS.md persona
scripts/generate_report.py (stdlib Python HTML report)

BYOK

codex login
# or browser-less:
codex login --device-auth
# or:
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

First prompt

/first-customer-finder — find ten evidence-backed potential first customers for https://example.com and create the final HTML report.

Modes

Provenance

Upstream MIT skill by Kappaemme / Francesco Mistero: https://github.com/Kappaemme-git/codex-first-customer-finder-skill Announce: https://x.com/Kappaemme1926/status/2076637778734153857

Inside this fork

Forking copies this template into a brand-new, fully isolated microVM on your own subdomain. Here's exactly what lands in it.

Codex CLI agent
The upstream harness, pre-installed — same version the creator ran.
Starter VM
1 vCPU · 2 GiB RAM · 10 GiB disk.
Creator's /persist data
The captured persist volume is copied byte-for-byte into your fork.
BYOK — your keys, your VM
Add your model API keys after forking; they live only inside your microVM.

What you'll configure after forking

Secrets are scrubbed from shared templates — these are the names you supply in your agent's terminal once it boots.

Environment variables

OPENAI_API_KEY

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First Customer Finder for Codex

What's inside