category-design

category-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills. It costs 98 tokens per session (4,215 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strategy framework for creating a new market category instead of competing only on existing features and prices. It helps define what the category is, why it matters, and how a company should be understood within it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for company positioning, product launches, market announcements, investor narratives, and escaping price-based competition.
Why use it?
It helps when a product is hard to compare, trapped in commodity competition, or losing despite being better. A clear category can give customers and investors a simpler way to understand the company.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it for company positioning, product launches, market announcements, investor narratives, and escaping price-based competition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills/category-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill category-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,215 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 $0.00098 $0.04215
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02107
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00843
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00421

Measured 9d ago against content hash 26ff2e21f9f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

category-design 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.

skills/strategy/category-design/SKILL.md · 535 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 535 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Category Design - Create and Dominate New Markets

Become the Category King by creating new markets instead of competing in existing ones

When to Use This Skill

  • Launching a company or product that doesn't fit cleanly into existing categories
  • Stuck in commodity competition where you're compared feature-to-feature with competitors
  • Redefining your market position when "better" isn't working as a strategy
  • Planning a major market announcement or product launch
  • Escaping price pressure by creating net new demand instead of fighting for existing pie
  • Building your company narrative for investors, employees, and customers
  • Feeling like you're losing to entrenched incumbents despite having a superior solution

Methodology Foundation

Aspect Details
Source Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets (2016)
Experts Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney
Core Principle "Companies that design and dominate new categories capture 76% of the total market value. Being better isn't enough—you must be different."

What Claude Does vs What You Decide

Claude Does You Decide
Structures analysis frameworks Strategic priorities
Synthesizes market data Competitive positioning
Identifies opportunities Resource allocation
Creates strategic options Final strategy selection
Suggests implementation approaches Execution decisions

What This Skill Does

This skill helps you escape the trap of "better" and create something "different." Most companies fail because they try to out-compete entrenched incumbents on their terms. Category Design flips the script.

Instead of fighting for scraps in existing markets, you'll:

  1. Find problems others don't see - Identify costly problems hidden in plain sight
  2. Design the category - Create the rules that favor you
  3. Condition the market - Make your problem feel urgent and your solution inevitable
  4. Execute Lightning Strikes - Launch in ways that change how people think
  5. Become the Category King - Capture 76% of market value, not 24%

Read the full file on GitHub · 535 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. 9d ago First seen · 535 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 26ff2e21f9f3

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category-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills (149 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 4,215 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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