apply-crisis-opportunism

apply-crisis-opportunism is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,147 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A competitive strategy for preparing before a competitor is distracted by a crisis, then moving into areas they can no longer protect effectively.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan responses to competitor outages, product failures, leadership changes, breaches, or other events that weaken their attention and resources.
Why use it?
It helps a team recognise short periods when customers, talent, partnerships, or market positions are more available than usual.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the grimoire-business plugin — 145 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan responses to competitor outages, product failures, leadership changes, breaches, or other events that weaken their attention and resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-crisis-opportunism
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 jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-crisis-opportunism
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grimoire-business, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 145 skills.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,147 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 $0.00046 $0.02147
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01073
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00429
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00215

Measured 8d ago against content hash c14f3c3670a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-crisis-opportunism 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.

skills/business/strategy/skills/apply-crisis-opportunism/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apply Crisis Opportunism

Pre-position capability before a competitor's crisis hits, then move fast into undefended territory when the crisis diverts their attention and resources.

Why This Is Best Practice

Origin: Stratagem #5 of the Thirty-Six Stratagems: "Loot a burning house" (趁火打劫). When your opponent is fighting a fire inside their own walls, their defenders have moved to fight the fire — the walls themselves are unguarded. The stratagem's logic is not to cause the fire (that is a different stratagem) but to recognise it early, pre-position outside the walls, and move the moment the defenders are occupied elsewhere.

Adopted by: Crisis opportunism is one of the most consistently observed patterns in competitive history. Microsoft signed key software developers during IBM's PC strategy confusion in the early 1980s. Amazon accelerated AWS feature releases during competitors' cloud outages, building customer trust when alternatives were most visible. Enterprise software vendors routinely approach competitor customers at contract renewal — a moment of maximum openness — especially after a product failure, data breach, or executive departure. The pattern is not predatory by default; the crisis reveals which alternatives customers would have chosen anyway.

Impact: A competitor in crisis is not merely distracted — they are resource-constrained. Key people who would have defended key accounts are fighting the crisis. Sales teams are managing existing customers rather than closing new ones. Marketing is in crisis communications mode. The competitive positions they normally defend actively are, temporarily, passively held. Crisis windows are typically 90–180 days before effective triage and reallocation occurs.

Why best: Crisis opportunism is not about causing harm — it is about having built the capability to serve customers or capture positions that the opponent cannot currently defend. The ethical version: provide genuine alternatives that customers need, at a moment when they need them most. The pre-positioning requirement ensures the capability is real, not exploitative.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 8d ago First seen · 114 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A c14f3c3670a7

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apply-crisis-opportunism is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,147 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 2026-09-03.