map-value-chain-profit-pools

map-value-chain-profit-pools is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer. It costs 205 tokens per session (2,093 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A business-analysis workflow that maps how an industry creates value and where its absolute operating profit is concentrated. It combines a Porter value chain with a profit-pool analysis, which shows profit by stage rather than revenue share.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse an industry from inbound logistics through service, estimate low-to-high profit ranges by stage, and identify structural protection around the most profitable stage.
Why use it?
It prevents revenue size or margin percentages from being mistaken for the places where the most total profit is made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to analyse an industry from inbound logistics through service, estimate…

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Any agent
npx skills add Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer --skill map-value-chain-profit-pools
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer

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Per session 205 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,093 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00205 $0.02093
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.01046
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00419
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00209

Measured 6d ago against content hash c64fe7fa5f73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

map-value-chain-profit-pools scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_profit_pools.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

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strategy/industry-analysis/map-value-chain-profit-pools/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Map Value Chain + Profit Pools

For a defined industry, decompose the value chain (Porter) and overlay absolute economic profit (Bain / Gadiesh-Gilbert) by stage. Output: value-chain-profit-pools.md with stage-by-stage profit map and identification of where structural profit concentration sits.

The discipline: profit and revenue are frequently inverted along the value chain. Mapping revenue without economic profit produces a misleading picture. Use EBIT or economic profit (not gross margin, not revenue share).

Iron rules:

  • Profit measured as absolute EBIT or economic profit per stage, not revenue margin or revenue share.
  • Normalised over 3-year trailing average margin (5-year for cyclical industries).
  • Ranges, not point estimates — every stage EBIT carries a low–base–high range.
  • Horizontal-bar visualisation required (markdown table with bar-width proxy).
  • Structural protection statement required: name a Helmer 7 Power for the highest-EBIT stage. If none identifiable, state "not structurally protected — expect arbitrage" explicitly.
  • Cross-references to working/five-forces.md if present (the governing force should correctly predict the profit-pool location).
  • When stage capital intensity varies >2×, escalate metric from EBIT to economic profit (EP) — see references/economic-profit.md. This is a hard rule, not a recommendation: validator fails if capital-intensity data is disclosed with >2× max/min ratio and only EBIT is used.
  • Append a structured next_skills: YAML block at end of file for orchestrator hand-off.

Process

1. Intake

Confirm: industry slug, geographic scope, value-chain definition (which stages — use a sector-appropriate template from references/value-chain-templates.md, including the vertical-integration and platform Z-shape notes). Read references/profit-pool-methodology.md.

2. Decompose the value chain

List 5-9 stages from raw inputs to end customer. For each: brief description, 2-3 representative players, estimated revenue contribution to total industry revenue as a range (low–base–high), V/C/A/I-tagged.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 6d ago First seen · 83 lines · 205 tokens per session scan C c64fe7fa5f73

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map-value-chain-profit-pools is a skill published in the GitHub repository Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 205 tokens to every session and 2,093 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.