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    "title": "AI Growth State Inventory",
    "subtitle": "A field guide to the /surge-recon skill",
    "description": "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. ",
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    "publishedAt": "2025-11-16",
    "updatedAt": "2025-11-16",
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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "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."
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      "text": "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. "
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      "text": "Install"
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      "text": "`/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."
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        "alternative": "Manual reconnaissance",
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