bcg-matrix

bcg-matrix is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 110 tokens per session (2,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A portfolio review framework that places business units on a four-part grid using market growth and relative market share. The groups are Stars, Cash Cows, Question Marks, and Dogs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing a company portfolio, planning budgets, and deciding which business units to invest in, maintain, harvest, or leave.
Why use it?
It gives teams a simple way to compare units competing for the same investment budget and decide where money should go.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Reviewing a company portfolio, planning budgets, and deciding which business units to invest in, maintain, harvest, or leave.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/bcg-matrix
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 deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill bcg-matrix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,060 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 $0.00110 $0.02060
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01030
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00206

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6264efda7825, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bcg-matrix 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 7d 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.

bcg-matrix/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BCG Growth-Share Matrix

Overview

Maps each business unit on a 2×2 grid of market growth rate vs. relative market share, revealing which units generate cash, which absorb it, and which to invest in, harvest, or exit. Four quadrants: Stars (invest), Cash Cows (harvest), Question Marks (binary decide), Dogs (exit or hold minimally). Rests on two empirical anchors: experience curve (high share = lowest cost) and industry life cycle (high growth demands reinvestment; maturity throws off cash).

Composes with: porters-five-forces to define industry boundary first · swot-analysis for internal-capability depth · ansoff-matrix to set growth direction for units worth investing in.

When to Use

  • Firm operates ≥ 3 distinct business units competing for a shared capital pool
  • Annual strategy or budget reviews need a forcing function for prioritization
  • PE/VC portfolio requires a quick health-read across holdings; M&A teams assessing retain vs. divest
  • AI capital reallocation: deciding which units to harvest to fund AI capex / AI-native bets, and whether an AI unit is a true Star or an expensive Question Mark amid AI-native competition

When NOT to use: single-product startup · highly interdependent units where divesting a Dog may destroy a Cash Cow · market in technology transition with unreliable growth data · firm-level competitive analysis within one market

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has specific BU data → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: user is unfamiliar → guide step by step.

In Coach mode, respond one step at a time. Each [WAIT] is a hard stop — output only that step's question, then stop.

  1. BCG shows which businesses fund others, which burn cash, and which need a decision — using two numbers: market growth rate and your share relative to your biggest competitor.
  2. Check fit: does the user have multiple distinct units? If single-product, redirect to Ansoff or Five Forces.
  3. Ask: "Which business units are you trying to prioritize?"

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Walk through unit definition, data collection, quadrant plotting, trend analysis, and strategy assignment one step at a time.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close: "The key thing BCG just revealed is [which unit is your implicit funder and which is consuming it without a clear path to self-sufficiency]."

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 122 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 6264efda7825

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bcg-matrix is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 2,060 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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