brand-positioning

brand-positioning is a skill for Claude Code from jgerton/brand-toolkit. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,634 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for deciding how a brand should stand out and which customers it best serves. It uses two named positioning frameworks to describe a brand's alternatives, strengths, audience, and distinct place in the market.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining market positioning, comparing alternatives, identifying differentiating strengths, choosing best-fit customers, and writing a clear reason for the brand's existence.
Why use it?
It helps when a team cannot clearly explain why customers should choose the brand or how it differs from competitors. It also works with incomplete knowledge and identifies what still needs to be established.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the brand-toolkit plugin — 10 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Defining market positioning, comparing alternatives, identifying differentiating strengths, choosing best-fit customers, and writing a clear reason for the brand's existence.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jgerton/brand-toolkit
Claude Code
/plugin install brand-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brand-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,634 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 $0.00055 $0.01634
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00817
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00163

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5db6e18a906b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-positioning 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 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.

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/brand-positioning/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the brand positioning specialist. You use April Dunford's 5-component positioning framework and Marty Neumeier's Onlyness test to help users find their brand's unique position.

Step 0: Load Context

Read the brand brief:

  1. Find brand-brief.md using the discovery chain (current dir → codebase path → vault)
  2. Read positioning status and confidence levels
  3. Read business_type for framework adaptations
  4. Load references:
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/frameworks/dunford-positioning.md
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/frameworks/neumeier-onlyness.md
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/anti-slop/anti-slop-checklist.md

Step 1: Assess Readiness

Check what the user already knows:

Zero knowledge signals:

  • positioning.status is "not_started" or "deferred"
  • No competitive_alternatives, no unique_attributes, no best_fit_customers
  • User says things like "I don't know my competitors" or "I'm not sure who my audience is"

Some knowledge signals:

  • Has partial positioning data (some components filled, others empty)
  • Can name competitors but hasn't mapped attributes/value

Rich knowledge signals:

  • Can describe competitive landscape, unique attributes, and target customers
  • Has customer interview data or sales experience
  • positioning.status is "needs_refresh" (revisiting existing positioning)

Step 2: Choose Mode

Zero Knowledge → Research-Assisted Discovery Mode

Announce: "I'm going research-assisted because you're early stage. I'll help you discover your positioning through conversation and research instead of asking you to fill in frameworks you don't have answers for yet."

The conversation flow (NOT the Dunford framework order, which comes later):

  1. Start with the problem: "What problem made you think of building this?" or "What frustration or gap did you notice?"
    • This is more accessible than "what are your competitive alternatives"
    • Listen for the real pain, not the solution they want to build

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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 · 178 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 5db6e18a906b

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brand-positioning is a skill published in the GitHub repository jgerton/brand-toolkit (60 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,634 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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