first-mover-advantage

first-mover-advantage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 123 tokens per session (2,262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for judging whether entering a market early creates a lasting lead, or whether waiting lets a later entrant do better.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether to enter a market now, assess how defensible a leader's position is, or find weaknesses in a pioneer's advantage.
Why use it?
It separates real first-mover benefits from situations where later entrants can learn from pioneers, avoid their mistakes, or benefit from clearer market conditions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to decide whether to enter a market now, assess how defensible a leader's position is, or find weaknesses in a pioneer's advantage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/first-mover-advantage
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 first-mover-advantage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,262 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 $0.00123 $0.02262
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01131
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00452
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00226

Measured 9d ago against content hash a92691e585fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

first-mover-advantage 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 9d 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.

first-mover-advantage/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

First-Mover Advantage

Overview

Lieberman and Montgomery's 1988 landmark paper established both the mechanisms of first-mover advantage and, with equal rigor, the mechanisms of first-mover disadvantage that make late entry rational and sometimes superior. The three advantage sources are: (1) technological leadership, (2) preemption of scarce assets, and (3) buyer switching costs. The three disadvantage mechanisms are: free-rider problem, resolution of market/technology uncertainty, and incumbent inertia. First-mover advantage is not a fact to assert — it is a structural condition to diagnose.

Compose with: switching-costs · network-effects · blue-ocean-strategy · disruptive-innovation.

When to Use

Apply when: deciding to enter now or wait · assessing how defensible a market leader's position is · a late entrant maps where the pioneer is weakest · a first mover audits which accumulated advantages are durable · gauging whether an AI-native pioneer's lead survives fast-followers, AI capex escalation, or accelerating AI adoption.

When NOT to use: No one has entered yet. The core question is execution quality, not timing. The advantage claimed is brand/momentum alone with no structural lock-in mechanism.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

Engine mode: specific market + named pioneer + strategic question → run The Process. Coach mode: "what is FMA / should we move first?" → 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. What-it-is: being first gives a head start on technology, key resources, and sticky customers — but forces you to teach the market so followers can learn for free.
  2. Check fit. If the question is "can we execute?" redirect. If no actual pioneer exists yet, the tool doesn't apply.
  3. Elicit their real case: "Which market, who is the first mover, and what advantage are you trying to assess or exploit?"

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Run The Process one step at a time — start by identifying which of the three advantage sources is present, then wait for input before moving to durability.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close by naming the strongest advantage source in their market and the corresponding first-mover disadvantage that creates the most viable follower route.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 123 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A a92691e585fd

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first-mover-advantage is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 2,262 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 2026-09-03.

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