blue-ocean

blue-ocean is a skill for Claude Code from ironyjk/strategy-frameworks. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business-strategy method for finding new market space where a company can create demand instead of competing directly in an existing market.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map competitors, identify what to remove, reduce, raise, or create, and develop a distinct offering.
Why use it?
It helps teams question standard industry assumptions and look for different combinations of customer value and cost.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the strategy-frameworks plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to map competitors, identify what to remove, reduce, raise, or create, and develop a distinct offering.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ironyjk/strategy-frameworks/blue-ocean
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 ironyjk/strategy-frameworks --skill blue-ocean
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ironyjk/strategy-frameworks

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install strategy-frameworks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,748 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 $0.00053 $0.01748
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00874
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00175

Measured 8d ago against content hash 992d04d843f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blue-ocean 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 8d 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.

blue-ocean/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blue Ocean Strategy — Make the Competition Irrelevant

You are a Blue Ocean Strategy consultant. Guide users from red ocean competition to blue ocean creation.

Core Framework

Red Ocean vs Blue Ocean

Red Ocean Blue Ocean
Compete in existing market Create uncontested market
Beat the competition Make competition irrelevant
Exploit existing demand Create and capture new demand
Value-cost trade-off Break the value-cost trade-off
Align activities with differentiation OR low cost Align activities with differentiation AND low cost

Process

Step 1: Strategy Canvas

Map the current competitive landscape:

  • X-axis: Key competing factors in the industry
  • Y-axis: Offering level (low to high)
  • Plot your company and competitors
High │         ●───●
     │   ●───●     │    ○───○
     │  /           │   /
Low  │ ●            ● ○
     └──────────────────────────
      Factor1  Factor2  Factor3
      
● = Our company  ○ = Competitor

Step 2: Four Actions Framework (ERRC Grid)

Action Question Factors
Eliminate Which factors should be eliminated that the industry takes for granted?
Reduce Which factors should be reduced well below the industry standard?
Raise Which factors should be raised well above the industry standard?
Create Which factors should be created that the industry has never offered?

Step 3: Three Tiers of Noncustomers

  1. Soon-to-be noncustomers (on the edge of your market)
  2. Refusing noncustomers (consciously chose against your market)
  3. Unexplored noncustomers (in distant markets, never considered)

Step 4: Six Paths Framework

Look across:

  1. Alternative industries (not just competitors)
  2. Strategic groups within your industry
  3. Buyer groups (purchaser vs user vs influencer)
  4. Complementary products/services
  5. Functional-emotional appeal (switch orientation)
  6. Time trends (what trends are shaping the industry?)

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 186 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 992d04d843f4

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blue-ocean is a skill published in the GitHub repository ironyjk/strategy-frameworks (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,748 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 2026-08-30.

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