competitive-moats

competitive-moats is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (4,486 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A strategy framework for examining whether a company has a lasting advantage that competitors cannot easily copy. It uses Hamilton Helmer's "7 Powers" model to assess different sources of business defensibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess competitors, startups, acquisitions, market entry, product priorities, and the durability of a company's business model.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish temporary growth from an advantage that can protect profits over time. It also highlights weaknesses that may leave a business exposed to commoditisation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess competitors, startups, acquisitions, market entry, product priorities, and the durability of a company's business model.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills/competitive-moats
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 guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill competitive-moats
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 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,486 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00095 $0.04486
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02243
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00897
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00449

Measured 9d ago against content hash eb05da565f31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

competitive-moats scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

| Scale Economies | Limited—SaaS costs don't decline dramatically with scale | Weak |
skills/strategy/competitive-moats/SKILL.md · 615 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 615 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Moats

Build durable competitive advantage using Hamilton Helmer's "7 Powers" framework—the complete, mutually exclusive enumeration of all possible sources of sustainable business moats.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Evaluate your competitive position and identify if you have true Power
  • Choose strategic direction for building durable advantage
  • Analyze competitors to understand their moats and vulnerabilities
  • Advise on M&A whether an acquisition target has defensible value
  • Assess startup investment potential for sustainable returns
  • Plan market entry and determine if you can build Power against incumbents
  • Diagnose strategic weakness when growth isn't translating to profits
  • Prioritize initiatives by their potential to create or strengthen moats

This skill is particularly valuable for:

  • Founders and executives making strategic decisions
  • Investors evaluating businesses for defensibility
  • Product managers prioritizing features that build advantage
  • Strategy consultants analyzing competitive dynamics
  • Anyone who suspects their business is vulnerable to commoditization

Methodology Foundation

Source: Hamilton Helmer - 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy (2016)

Core Principle: Power is the set of conditions that enables a business to achieve persistent differential returns. Power requires both a Benefit (something that improves cash flow) AND a Barrier (something that prevents competitors from arbitraging away that benefit).

"A business without Power is a business without a moat, and a business without a moat eventually becomes a commodity."


What Claude Does vs What You Decide

Claude Does You Decide
Structures content frameworks Final messaging
Suggests persuasion techniques Brand voice
Creates draft variations Version selection
Identifies optimization opportunities Publication timing
Analyzes competitor approaches Strategic direction

Read the full file on GitHub · 615 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 · 615 lines · 95 tokens per session scan C eb05da565f31

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competitive-moats is a skill published in the GitHub repository guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills (149 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 4,486 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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