moat-strategy

moat-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from impactbrussels/AINativeOS. It costs 129 tokens per session (1,494 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A framework for finding what makes a company difficult to copy after software becomes cheap to build. It examines the feedback loop between customer use, unique data, and product improvement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to describe the company's improvement loop, classify its defensibility, assess how durable it is, and record the findings in a moat ledger.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a lasting competitive advantage from a feature or product that competitors can quickly reproduce.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-native-os plugin — 25 skills, 6 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/impactbrussels/ainativeos/moat-strategy
Any agent
npx skills add impactbrussels/AINativeOS --skill moat-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/impactbrussels/AINativeOS

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-native-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 6 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,494 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00129 $0.01494
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00747
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00149

Measured 5d ago against content hash 233231bd9877, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

moat-strategy 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 5d 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/moat-strategy/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Moat Strategy

The thing you were defending stopped being defensible. You and the giant down the road rent the same model, at the same price, on the same terms; what took a quarter takes a Friday. A wrapper looks identical to a moat on launch day, which is the trap that funds the wrong companies. Three months on, one product is sharper than it was at launch and the other is exactly as good as the day it shipped, while four clones crowd in beside it. The demo could not tell them apart. The loop is the only thing that could.

The method

Find the loop, rank the moat, ledger it. Full framework: references/moat-method.md. Source: Handbook Chapter 14. Output destination: knowledge-base/MOATS-LEDGER.md.

Step 1: Name the flywheel, or admit you have a feature

Write the one sentence where a customer's use today makes the product measurably better next month. If you cannot write it, you do not have a moat yet. Spell out the loop: what use produces what proprietary data that makes what better.

Step 2: Rank the moat type by durability

Pick the moat you are actually building, hardest first.

Moat type The test it must pass Durability
Data flywheel Does each use compound, widening the gap while a rival catches up? Highest
Vertical / proprietary data Can a horizontal giant not collect this (consent, regulation, sensor, relationship)? High
Data consortium In a fragmented sector, is the pooled set larger than any member could build, and governed? High
Trust and compliance Does the audit trail, validation record, or clearance take years and survive scrutiny? High, slow
Brand / switching cost Does leaving cost the customer real, accumulated work, not just a logo change? Medium

Step 3: Run the Remove-the-AI test on the whole company

Delete the model call. If what is left is a generic chatbot, the moat is rented. If what is left is a flywheel of proprietary data and a record of earned trust, it is load-bearing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 85 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 233231bd9877

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moat-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository impactbrussels/AINativeOS (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,494 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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