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A field guide to the /surge-recon skill

AI Growth State Inventory

Audits the current growth state: maps existing acquisition channels with estimated contribution and cost, reads onboarding flows step by step, analyzes retention curve shape by cohort, and inventories any prior growth experiments with their outcomes. Produces a factual picture of where growth is coming from and where it is leaking.

Surge · Growth4 min readNovember 16, 2025

Reconnaissance is the first thing a senior engineer does on an inherited project: read the lay of the land before changing anything. Skip it and the first change reveals an assumption that turned out to be wrong.

The /surge-recon skill produces the recon for the usurge domain. Audits the current growth state: maps existing acquisition channels with estimated contribution and cost, reads onboarding flows step by step, analyzes retention curve shape by cohort, and inventories any prior growth experiments with their outcomes. Produces a factual picture of where growth is coming from and where it is leaking.

Tonone's /surge-recon skill produces a focused inventory of the usurge domain before changes are made.

Install

/surge-recon ships with the usurge agent in Tonone for Claude Code. Install Tonone via tonone.ai/get-started. Tonone is free and MIT-licensed.

1. Add to marketplace

$ claude plugin marketplace add tonone-ai/tonone

2. Install Surge

$ claude plugin install surge@tonone-ai

Frequently asked questions

What does /surge-recon do?
Audits the current growth state: maps existing acquisition channels with estimated contribution and cost, reads onboarding flows step by step, analyzes retention curve shape by cohort, and inventories any prior growth experiments with their outcomes. Produces a factual picture of where growth is coming from and where it is leaking.
How do I install /surge-recon?
Install Tonone for Claude Code via tonone.ai/get-started. Tonone is free and MIT-licensed.

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