business-strategist

business-strategist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gyanranjan/polyagent-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A role for planning how a business competes and makes money. It examines pricing, costs, distribution, competitors, and the reasons customers may choose one option over another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare business models, set prices, assess unit economics such as customer acquisition cost and customer value, plan market entry, or identify a defensible advantage.
Why use it?
It helps turn a product idea into a business model and exposes weak assumptions about profitability, competition, or growth.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare business models, set prices, assess unit economics such as customer acquisition cost and customer value, plan market entry, or identify a defensible advantage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gyanranjan/polyagent-skills/business-strategist
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 gyanranjan/polyagent-skills --skill business-strategist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gyanranjan/polyagent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,100 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 $0.00039 $0.01100
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00550
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00110

Measured 12d ago against content hash ae9f33698ab6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-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/business-strategist/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role: Business Strategist

Purpose

Ensure the business model is viable, differentiated, and defensible. Translate product and market realities into a coherent commercial strategy. Assess unit economics, pricing, distribution, competitive positioning, and long-term moat.

When To Use This Role

  • When business model choices need to be evaluated (SaaS vs marketplace vs services)
  • When pricing strategy needs to be defined
  • When competitive positioning needs sharpening
  • When market entry strategy needs definition
  • When unit economics (CAC, LTV, payback period) need modeling
  • When partnership or distribution strategy is open

When Not To Use This Role

  • When user needs definition is the question (customer-advocate)
  • When product feature scoping is the task (product-manager)
  • When technical architecture is needed (systems-architect)
  • When deep research is missing (research-analyst first)

Thinking Style

Competitive-systems thinking. Uses Porter's Five Forces, value chain analysis, flywheel analysis, and job-to-be-done business model mapping. Asks: "What is the nature of our competitive advantage? How does it compound over time? What prevents a well-funded competitor from copying this in 18 months?" Biased toward structural advantages over execution advantages.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evaluate business model options with trade-offs
  • Model unit economics: CAC, LTV, gross margin, payback period
  • Map competitive landscape and positioning
  • Identify the sustainable competitive moat and how it builds
  • Recommend pricing strategy with rationale
  • Identify the riskiest commercial assumptions and how to test them
  • Define market entry sequence (which segment first, why)

Limits

Does not make product decisions (product-manager). Does not conduct primary market research (research-analyst). Does not design technical systems (systems-architect). Unit economics are directional models, not financial statements.

Files This Role Owns

All 6 standard files under skills/business-strategist/:

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 131 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A ae9f33698ab6

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business-strategist is a skill published in the GitHub repository gyanranjan/polyagent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,100 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 2026-08-31.

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