mckinsey-strategist

mckinsey-strategist is a skill for Claude Code from ericgandrade/claude-superskills. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured strategy-analysis guide for difficult business decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps produce analyses and action plans using methods such as SWOT, VRIO, 7S, first-principles thinking, and impact-versus-effort comparison.
Why use it?
It gives developers and teams a clear way to break down complex problems, compare options, and decide what to do first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-superskills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps produce analyses and action plans using methods such as SWOT, VRIO, 7S, first-principles thinking, and impact-versus-effort comparison.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/mckinsey-strategist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ericgandrade/claude-superskills --skill mckinsey-strategist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericgandrade/claude-superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-superskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,382 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 $0.00030 $0.01382
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00138

Measured 12d ago against content hash 399e90ce1bb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mckinsey-strategist 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 12d 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.

skills/mckinsey-strategist/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

💼 McKinsey Strategist

Version: 1.0.0 Status: ✨ Production Ready | 🌍 Universal

Acts as a Senior Strategy Partner (McKinsey-style) to deconstruct complex problems and deliver high-impact recommendations.


📋 Overview

McKinsey Strategist is an elite strategic consulting skill that applies absolute analytical rigor and first-principles thinking to diagnose business pain points and complex scenarios.

Instead of generic answers, it uses proven frameworks (SWOT, VRIO, 7S, MECE, Minto Pyramid) to deliver a structured, prioritized, results-focused action plan.

✨ Key Features

  • 🧠 First Principles Thinking: Deconstructs problems down to root cause.
  • 📐 MECE Structure: Ensures analyses are Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive.
  • 🔍 5 Analytical Filters: Integrates SWOT, VRIO, 7S, Second-Order Thinking, and Impact vs. Effort Matrix.
  • 🗣️ Executive Communication: Applies the Minto Pyramid Principle (conclusion first).
  • 🚀 Actionable Roadmap: Prioritizes initiatives based on ROI and feasibility.

🚀 Quick Start

Invoke the Skill

Use any of these trigger phrases:

copilot> act as a consultant: [describe the problem]
copilot> strategic analysis for: [scenario]
copilot> business diagnosis: [company/situation]
copilot> consulting case: [data]
copilot> mckinsey style recommendation for: [objective]

Example 1: Revenue Decline

Input:

copilot> strategic analysis for: fashion e-commerce with a 15% sales drop last quarter

Output (Executive Synthesis): "Revenue erosion is primarily driven by mobile conversion inefficiency and stockouts on key items, requiring immediate restructuring of UX and the supply chain."


Progress Tracking

Display progress during strategic analysis:

[████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░] 25% — Phase 1/4: Problem Structuring & MECE Framing
[████████░░░░░░░░░░░░] 50% — Phase 2/4: Analysis & Framework Application
[████████████░░░░░░░░] 75% — Phase 3/4: Insight Synthesis & So What Test
[████████████████████] 100% — Phase 4/4: Recommendations & Executive Summary

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 12d ago First seen · 141 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 399e90ce1bb8

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mckinsey-strategist is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericgandrade/claude-superskills (75 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,382 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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