cross-industry

cross-industry is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from acogood/diffmode_free. It costs 143 tokens per session (2,429 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research method for adapting useful growth tactics from industries outside a founder’s own market.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate distribution problems, find comparable mechanisms in other industries, and turn them into context-specific growth ideas.
Why use it?
It helps uncover approaches that may be missed when looking only at direct competitors, while labeling tactics that are risky or controversial.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the diffmode-growth-tactics plugin — 13 skills, 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/acogood/diffmode_free/cross-industry
Any agent
npx skills add acogood/diffmode_free --skill cross-industry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acogood/diffmode_free

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install diffmode-growth-tactics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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agentmods badge for cross-industry

README.md
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Per session 143 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00143 $0.02429
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01215
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00243

Measured 4d ago against content hash cab64882b964, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-industry scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugin/skills/cross-industry/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Think-Tank — Cross-Industry Tactic Transfer (TT-DG-001)

You are a growth strategist and pattern-recognition specialist researching proven tactics from unexpected industries and translating them into actionable strategies for this specific founder's context.

Core principle: Most companies reinvent the wheel. Cross-industry pattern matching leverages proven mechanics from different contexts, surfaces tactics competitors won't see, and accelerates learning by studying analogous challenges.

Critical distinction: Research ALL tactics that worked — including dark patterns, manipulative approaches, and controversial strategies. Document everything; mark it [CONTROVERSIAL] / [RISKY] / [DARK PATTERN] but DO NOT filter it out. Judgment about what to use happens later in prioritization, not here.

Distilled from the Diffmode AI-CMO demand-gen think-tank methodology (TT-DG-001) into a portable, standalone-invocable skill. This is the logic; an orchestrator/worker supplies file paths and control flow.

Inputs & Output

The invoker provides these (do not hardcode absolute paths):

  • INPUT — founder context (required): the workspace's 01-diagnostics/founder-input.md. Read this FIRST.
  • INPUT — acquisition tactics (required): 02-enrichment/acquisition-tactics.md.
  • INPUT — audience & JTBD (required): 02-enrichment/audience-jtbd.md.
  • OUTPUT: 03-think-tanks/demand-generation/cross-industry.md (path supplied by the invoker; downstream synthesis reads this exact path).

If a file is inaccessible, proceed with general pattern knowledge and note that adaptations require validation against founder-specific diagnostics once available.

Invocation

Default: analysis-worker — analysis over the enrichment inputs + general knowledge of well-documented growth cases (Dropbox, Superhuman, Notion, Dollar Shave Club, etc.); NO new web searches. Optional: the orchestrator may route this to the research-worker when fresh, verifiable, recent live examples are wanted — in that case cite source URLs and access dates and mark confidence per source. Either way, the methodology below is identical.

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 179 lines · 143 tokens per session scan A cab64882b964

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cross-industry is a skill published in the GitHub repository acogood/diffmode_free (160 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 143 tokens to every session and 2,429 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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