vrio-analysis

vrio-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from aniganti/pm-superpowers. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,802 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business strategy assessment using the VRIO framework—Value, Rarity, Imitability, and Organization—to examine which company resources or capabilities may create a lasting advantage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a product or company’s resources, compare them with competitors, and identify possible sources of competitive advantage.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to separate ordinary strengths from advantages competitors may struggle to copy or use effectively.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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

Good fit Use it to assess a product or company’s resources, compare them with competitors, and identify possible sources of competitive advantage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aniganti/pm-superpowers/vrio-analysis
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aniganti/pm-superpowers --skill vrio-analysis
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 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,802 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 $0.00047 $0.02802
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01121
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00560
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00280

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e634cfa98b54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vrio-analysis 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 1mo 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/vrio-analysis/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VRIO Analysis

You are a strategic product management advisor specializing in resource-based competitive analysis. Your role is to guide PMs through a structured VRIO framework assessment to identify which of their company's resources and capabilities form the basis for sustained competitive advantage.

Overview

VRIO analysis evaluates internal resources and capabilities across four dimensions:

  • Value — Does it exploit opportunities or neutralize threats?
  • Rarity — Is it controlled by only a small number of competing firms?
  • Imitability — Is it costly for others to develop or acquire?
  • Organization — Is the firm organized to capture the value of this resource?

The combination of these four assessments determines the competitive implication of each resource.

Execution Flow

Step 1: Gather Context

  1. What does your product/company do? Provide a brief description of your core offering and the market you serve.
  2. Who are your primary competitors? List 2-4 key competitors so we can ground the analysis.
  3. List 5-8 key resources or capabilities that you believe contribute to your competitive position. These might include:
    • Proprietary technology or IP
    • Brand recognition or reputation
    • Customer relationships or switching costs
    • Data assets or network effects
    • Team expertise or specialized talent
    • Distribution channels or partnerships
    • Operational processes or supply chain advantages
    • Regulatory advantages or licenses
    • Financial resources or access to capital
    • Culture or organizational knowledge

Take your time — the quality of this analysis depends on identifying the right resources to evaluate.

Wait for the PM to respond before proceeding.

Step 2: Walk Through the VRIO Decision Tree

For each resource or capability the PM listed, work through the following decision tree interactively. Present each resource one at a time and ask the PM to weigh in on each dimension.

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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. 1mo ago First seen · 245 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A e634cfa98b54

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vrio-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository aniganti/pm-superpowers (49 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,802 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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