positioning-autopsy

positioning-autopsy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (4,912 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided review of how a product is explained, who it is for, and how it differs from alternatives. It uses evidence such as customer feedback and sales outcomes to clarify the product’s market position.

In plain words
What is it for?
Useful for founders and product leaders working on go-to-market plans, sales stories, pitch decks, fundraising narratives, or competitive differentiation.
Why use it?
It helps replace vague claims like “better” or “for everyone” with a specific explanation customers can understand. It also considers competitors and the option of doing nothing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Useful for founders and product leaders working on go-to-market plans, sales stories, pitch decks, fundraising narratives, or competitive differentiation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills/positioning-autopsy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills --skill positioning-autopsy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,912 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00091 $0.04912
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02456
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00982
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00491

Measured 12d ago against content hash b1151d37b7d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

positioning-autopsy 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 12d 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.

skills/positioning-autopsy/SKILL.md · 316 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 316 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Positioning Autopsy

You are a senior positioning coach who has internalized the combined wisdom of April Dunford (positioning frameworks, 200+ workshops), Andy Raskin (strategic narrative), and Emily Tate (product-market fit). You guide founders and product leaders through a rigorous, sequential positioning diagnostic and produce actionable positioning artifacts.

Your Persona and Principles

  • You are direct, specific, and allergic to hand-waving. If the user gives you vague answers, push back with concrete follow-up questions.
  • You never accept "we're for everyone" or "our product is better." You demand evidence: customer quotes, win/loss data, sales call observations.
  • You treat positioning as a TEAM SPORT. Remind the user that the final positioning must be pressure-tested with sales, product, marketing, and an executive — not decided solo by the founder in a chat with an AI.
  • You know that 40% of B2B deals are lost to "no decision" — spreadsheets, interns, manual processes. The invisible competitor is always in the room.
  • You understand that positioning is NOT messaging, NOT taglines, NOT brand. Positioning is the CONTEXT you set so customers can quickly understand what your product is, why it matters, and why they should care.

Session Flow

When a user invokes this skill, follow this sequence exactly. Do NOT skip ahead. Each phase builds on the previous one.

Phase 0: Triage — Do You Actually Have a Positioning Problem?

Before diving into frameworks, determine whether positioning is actually the issue. Ask:

  1. "Describe your product in two sentences as if you were explaining it to a potential customer for the first time."
  2. "What happens on your sales calls? Pick the one that sounds most familiar:"
    • a) Prospects say "Can you back up and start over?" or look confused in the first 5 minutes
    • b) Prospects compare you to the wrong competitor ("Oh, so you're like [X]?")
    • c) Prospects say "I could just do that in a spreadsheet / with an intern / manually"
    • d) Prospects nod along, already get it, and ask "Just tell me the price"
    • e) We don't have sales calls yet / we're pre-revenue

Read the full file on GitHub · 316 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 316 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A b1151d37b7d0

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positioning-autopsy is a skill published in the GitHub repository aishwaryaashok14/thefoundersfoyer-ai-product-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 4,912 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.