pestel-analysis

pestel-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fzfclee/consulting-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (763 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for scanning six types of external influence on a decision: political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors. It is commonly called PESTEL analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing market and operating conditions across a defined geography and time period.
Why use it?
It helps identify outside changes that could alter a strategy, assumption, timing, or risk.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Reviewing market and operating conditions across a defined geography and time period.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fzfclee/consulting-skills/pestel-analysis
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Any agent
npx skills add fzfclee/consulting-skills --skill pestel-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fzfclee/consulting-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 763 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 $0.00054 $0.00763
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00076

Measured 10d ago against content hash 84cbb0189dcb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pestel-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 10d 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/pestel-analysis/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PESTEL Analysis

Use this skill to run PESTEL Analysis as a practical consulting method, not as a generic framework explanation.

Method Notes

  • Scan Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal forces.
  • Keep only external forces that can change the decision.

Required Inputs

Collect or infer these inputs before execution:

  • market or situation
  • geography
  • time horizon
  • known external trends

If an input is missing, do not block automatically. Mark it as missing, state the assumption used, and add a validation action.

When Not To Use

Do not use PESTEL to assess internal capability or to collect trends with no decision consequence. Use it for external macro factors that could change a strategic choice, assumption, timing, or risk.

Adjacent Methods

  • porter-five-forces: industry structure and profit pressure.
  • competitive-positioning: buyer-facing choice versus alternatives.

Step-by-Step Execution

Step Required input How to execute Output
Set horizon and geography Market, geography, industry, time horizon. Define external environment boundary. PESTEL scope.
Scan six categories Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, Legal evidence. List external forces under each category with source or confidence. PESTEL factor list.
Filter material forces Factor list, decision objective. Keep only factors that can change opportunity, risk, cost, demand, or feasibility. Material external forces.
Assess impact and timing Material factors. Rate direction, magnitude, likelihood, timing, and uncertainty. Prioritized PESTEL table.
Define responses Prioritized table. Recommend adaptation, watch items, hedges, or validation needs. External-context action plan.

Output Template

### 1. Scope And Horizon
Market / geography:
Decision:
Time horizon:
Source cut-off:

### 2. External Forces
| Category | Force | Evidence / source | Direction | Timing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |  |

### 3. Material Implications
| Force | Impact | Uncertainty | Exposure |
|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |

### 4. Response And Signposts
| Response | Owner | Leading sign | Revisit trigger |
|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |

### Evidence And Next Decision
- Confirmed facts:
- Assumptions:
- Missing evidence:
- Next action, owner, and timing:
- Expected signal and decision threshold:

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 10d ago First seen · 86 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 84cbb0189dcb

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pestel-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository fzfclee/consulting-skills (4 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 763 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.