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gnurio/porter-strategy-skills

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TLDR

A set of 12 AI agent skills that turn Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy frameworks into structured analysis tasks you can run with Claude Code or Cursor to analyze competitors, markets, and strategic options.

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  root((Porter Strategy Skills))
    Frameworks
      Five forces
      Competitor profile
      Generic strategies
      Offensive moves
    Workflows
      Market entry eval
      Strategic audit
      Competitive response
    Orchestrator
      Auto-routing
      Skill chaining
    Audience
      Founders
      PMs
      Strategists
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USE CASE 1

Run a five forces analysis on your industry checking 32 sub-factors automatically via an AI agent.

USE CASE 2

Build a detailed competitor profile and predict how that competitor would respond to your strategic moves.

USE CASE 3

Use the orchestrator skill to chain multiple Porter frameworks together for a full strategic audit.

USE CASE 4

Identify whether your business fits a cost leadership, differentiation, or focus strategy using structured AI-guided analysis.

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Requires Claude Code, Cursor, or another AI agent that supports skill or slash-command loading. No software to install or configure.

In plain English

This repository is a collection of 12 AI agent skills built around Michael Porter's book "Competitive Strategy," a foundational text on how businesses compete within industries. The skills are designed to be invoked by AI coding assistants like Claude Code or Cursor, and they turn the analytical frameworks from that book into structured, step-by-step analysis tasks that an AI agent can actually walk through with you. The skills cover the core ideas in Porter's book. One skill leads you through the five forces framework, checking 32 sub-factors across barriers to entry, rivalry among competitors, buyer power, supplier power, and substitute products. Another builds a competitor profile by examining goals, assumptions, current strategy, and capabilities, then predicts how that competitor would respond to moves you might make. Other skills help identify which generic strategy fits your situation (cost leadership, differentiation, or focus), interpret what competitor actions signal about their intentions, design offensive or defensive moves, and audit whether a strategy is internally consistent. There is also an orchestrator skill that detects what you are trying to analyze, routes to the appropriate skill or chain of skills, and passes outputs from one step into the next. Five pre-built workflows cover common scenarios such as evaluating a new market to enter, running a full strategic audit, or determining what competitive move to make. The repository does not contain software that runs independently. Each skill is a Markdown file with procedures, checklists, decision logic, and output templates written in Porter's own language rather than paraphrased summaries. The authors note they cross-checked the content against the original book using NotebookLM. A heuristics catalog, a failure modes catalog, and workflow diagrams are also included. The repository is structured so you can copy the skills folder into a project that supports AI skills or slash commands.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Load the porter-strategy-skills five-forces skill and run a full industry analysis for [my market], checking all 32 sub-factors and summarizing the top three threats.
Prompt 2
Use the competitor profile skill to analyze [competitor name]: map their goals, assumptions, and current strategy, then predict how they would respond if I launched [product].
Prompt 3
Run the evaluate-a-new-market workflow from porter-strategy-skills for [target market] and give me a go or no-go recommendation with reasoning.
Prompt 4
Use the generic strategy skill to determine whether my business [brief description] should pursue cost leadership, differentiation, or focus, and explain why.
Prompt 5
Run a full strategic consistency audit on my current strategy using porter-strategy-skills and flag any internal contradictions.
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