test-positioning

test-positioning is a skill for Claude Code from daddia/claude-for-strategy. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,163 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for testing an existing positioning statement by checking its trade-offs—what the strategy chooses to do and not do. Positioning describes how an offering is meant to stand apart in a market.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess an existing positioning claim, including whether its trade-off is clear, whether it excludes some customers, and whether it fits the organization’s incentives.
Why use it?
It distinguishes a real strategic choice from an appealing slogan that makes no meaningful commitment. It also shows when the available evidence is insufficient for a confident judgment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the market-intelligence plugin — 5 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess an existing positioning claim, including whether its trade-off is clear, whether it excludes some customers, and whether it fits the organization’s incentives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daddia/claude-for-strategy/test-positioning
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 daddia/claude-for-strategy --skill test-positioning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daddia/claude-for-strategy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install market-intelligence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,163 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 $0.00056 $0.01163
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00465
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00116

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c8438eb15669, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-positioning 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.

market-intelligence/skills/test-positioning/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Positioning

When to use

When a positioning claim needs trade-off discipline — what you're choosing not to do — before treating it as strategy.

What this skill does not do

  • Does not write positioning from scratch — tests an existing claim; practice-setup captures baseline.
  • Does not map competitors — route to /market-intelligence:map-competitive-landscape.
  • Does not validate marketing slogans without trade-offs — flags aspiration vs. strategic choice.

Preconditions

Input If missing
Positioning statement (profile or user) Ask user to state claim
Practice profile Proceed from user input
map-incentives output (optional) Skip incentive coherence check; note gap

Provisional mode

No trade-off named by user: output TRADE-OFF: NONE FOUND and stop short of validating as real strategic choice.

Trust spine

  • Confidence bands (option-evaluation):
    • High: Trade-off explicit, stuck-in-the-middle check passed, alienation assessed, incentive coherence checked.
    • Medium: Trade-off named but alienation acceptance unclear — [review].
    • Low: No trade-off — positioning flagged as aspiration only.
  • Failure modes:
    • Strategic advice vs. support: Surfaces trade-offs and failures; does not declare positioning "good" or "bad."
    • Client confidentiality: Positioning may be pre-release — CONFIDENTIAL header.
    • Accountability gap: "Who this alienates" forces deliberate acceptance question.
    • Analytical Rigor: Stuck-in-the-middle pattern named directly when present.
    • Incentive Gaming: Checks whether internal incentives undermine stated position.
  • Escalation triggers: Stuck-in-the-middle with no structural mechanism — flag as blocking for strategy credibility.

Workflow

  1. Read the practice profile for current positioning.
  2. State the positioning as claimed, plainly.
  3. Demand the trade-off — segment, use case, or feature set walked away from. If none: flag explicitly.
  4. Check stuck-in-the-middle — cost leadership + differentiation without credible mechanism.
  5. Stress-test who this alienates — deliberate and accepted, or unexamined side-effect?
  6. Check incentive coherence against map-incentives if available.
  7. Validate before output: trade-off discipline applied; no false validation of slogans.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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 · 117 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A c8438eb15669

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test-positioning is a skill published in the GitHub repository daddia/claude-for-strategy (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,163 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 2026-08-31.