writing-north-star-metrics
Audited by Runlayer on Feb 21, 2026
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Tool: SKILL.md Description: --- name: writing-north-star-metrics description: Help users define their North Star metric. Use when someone is choosing their primary success metric, trying to align the team around a key measure, struggling with metric proliferation, or setting up their measurement strategy.
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Tool: references/guest-insights.md [1/4] Description: # Writing North Star Metrics - All Guest Insights *27 guests, 35 mentions* --- ## Adriel Frederick *Adriel Frederick* > "What I thought was brilliant about it was not the metric, it was the designing it to be understood and communicated... Zuck just said 10 friends, 14 days, go.
Tool: references/guest-insights.md [2/4] Description: driving DAUs is current user retention rate." **Insight:** A North Star metric (DAU) should be supported by a high-sensitivity input metric (CURR). **Tactical advice:** - Identify the specific retention metric that has the highest correlation with your North Star growth metric.
Tool: references/guest-insights.md [3/4] Description: most of your users to reach a state that they're not reaching today." **Insight:** A high-bar activation metric that only a small percentage of users reach is often more valuable because it correlates more strongly with long-term retention. **Tactical advice:** - Select activation metrics that have a high correlation with long-term retention - Aim for a 'hard' activation milestone (5-15% success rate) to ensure it represents true product valu
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