porter-five-forces

porter-five-forces is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fzfclee/consulting-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (737 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured method for examining competition and profit pressure across a whole industry. It considers existing rivals, new entrants, substitutes, buyers, and suppliers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Assessing market attractiveness, competitive pressure, pricing power, and strategic positioning.
Why use it?
It helps explain why an industry is attractive or difficult, beyond comparing individual companies or features.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Assessing market attractiveness, competitive pressure, pricing power, and strategic positioning.

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Any agent
npx skills add fzfclee/consulting-skills --skill porter-five-forces
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fzfclee/consulting-skills

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 737 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 $0.00050 $0.00737
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00368
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00074

Measured 10d ago against content hash a8b3688504ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

porter-five-forces 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/porter-five-forces/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Porter Five Forces

Use this skill to run Porter Five Forces as a practical consulting method, not as a generic framework explanation.

Method Notes

  • Analyze the industry or market structure, not one company in isolation.
  • Cover rivalry, entrants, substitutes, buyer power, and supplier power.

Required Inputs

Collect or infer these inputs before execution:

  • industry or market
  • competitors
  • customers
  • suppliers
  • substitutes

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 when the industry boundary is unclear or when the task is to compare individual competitors and features. Five Forces examines industry economics and bargaining structure, not company execution.

Adjacent Methods

  • pestel-analysis: macro external forces.
  • competitive-positioning: buyer-facing differentiation and proof.

Step-by-Step Execution

Step Required input How to execute Output
Define industry boundary Industry, geography, segment, value chain position. State the market level being analyzed and exclude unrelated markets. Industry boundary.
Analyze five forces Competitors, buyers, suppliers, entrants, substitutes. Assess rivalry, buyer power, supplier power, new entrants, and substitutes. Five-forces evidence table.
Rate force strength Evidence table. Rate each force high/medium/low with evidence and trend direction. Force strength profile.
Identify profit pressure Force profile, economics, margins, switching costs. Explain which forces capture value away from the business. Industry attractiveness diagnosis.
Choose strategic response Diagnosis and company constraints. Recommend positioning, differentiation, partnership, pricing, channel, or moat actions. Competitive strategy implications.

Output Template

### 1. Industry Boundary
Market:
Geography:
Customer:
Time horizon:

### 2. Five Forces
| Force | Strength | Evidence | Profit mechanism | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |  |

### 3. Structural Pressure
Most important pressure:
Attractive niche / position:
Uncertainty:

### 4. Strategic Responses
| Response | Force addressed | Feasibility | Risk | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  |  |  |  |  |

### 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 · 87 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 · 87 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A a8b3688504ac

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porter-five-forces is a skill published in the GitHub repository fzfclee/consulting-skills (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 737 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.