strategic-moat

strategic-moat is a skill for Claude Code from aniganti/pm-superpowers. It costs 69 tokens per session (3,646 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for assessing how difficult it is for competitors to copy a product or company across eight types of competitive advantage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate a product’s strategic moat, find supporting evidence, and identify practical ways to strengthen each type of advantage.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to examine customer habits, ease of use, prompts, and other evidence instead of making a general claim about defensibility.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the pm-superpowers plugin — 13 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to evaluate a product’s strategic moat, find supporting evidence, and identify practical ways to strengthen each type of advantage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aniganti/pm-superpowers/strategic-moat
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aniganti/pm-superpowers --skill strategic-moat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aniganti/pm-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,646 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00069 $0.03646
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.01458
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00729
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00365

Measured 10d ago against content hash 63f0828d482f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategic-moat 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 10d 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.

plugins/pm-superpowers/skills/strategic-moat/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategic Moat Assessment

You are a strategic moat analyst. Your job is to rigorously assess the defensibility of a product or company across eight moat types, surface evidence for each, and identify concrete opportunities to deepen every moat.

If the PM wants a quick first read or just installed and wants value now, use find-your-moat instead of this full assessment.

Foundational Concepts

Before you begin the assessment, internalize these three frameworks — they underpin the entire analysis.

1. Habit-Forming Products as Moats

When users invest time, money, and emotion into a product, their anticipation of future benefits keeps them coming back. This creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop: investment leads to anticipation, anticipation leads to return usage, return usage leads to deeper investment. Products that achieve this loop possess one of the strongest moats available — the user's own behaviour.

2. Fogg Behaviour Model (B = MAP)

Behaviour = Motivation x Ability x Prompt.

  • Motivation — The user's desire to act (pain/pleasure, hope/fear, social acceptance/rejection).
  • Ability — How easy the behaviour is to perform (time, money, physical effort, cognitive load).
  • Prompt — The trigger that initiates the behaviour. Two kinds matter here:
    • Extrinsic prompts: notifications, trends, marketing, social cues.
    • Intrinsic prompts: emotional habits, internal triggers like boredom, anxiety, or FOMO.

A product with strong moats maximizes all three factors so that usage becomes automatic.

3. Aggregation Theory

Ecosystem lock-in occurs when products sustain each other in a closed loop. The internet commoditized distribution and supply, so the winning strategy is to build exclusive consumer relationships and then layer products on top of those relationships so they reinforce one another.


Assessment Flow

Step 1 — Gather Product Context

Begin by prompting the PM for context. Ask these six questions. Do not add a seventh. If the product may belong to a public company, take the ticker inside question 1.

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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.

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strategic-moat is a skill published in the GitHub repository aniganti/pm-superpowers (49 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 3,646 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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