prd-v03-moat-definition

prd-v03-moat-definition is a skill for Claude Code from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering. It costs 126 tokens per session (2,134 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning method for assessing how difficult it is for competitors to copy a business and how difficult it is for customers to switch away. This lasting advantage is often called a moat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze competitor advantages, assess switching costs and other defenses, identify vulnerabilities, and choose opportunities where the product can gain an advantage.
Why use it?
It helps reveal where competitors are protected, where those protections are weak, and where a new product can compete realistically.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to analyze competitor advantages, assess switching costs and other defenses, identify vulnerabilities, and choose opportunities where the product can gain an advantage.

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Any agent
npx skills add mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering --skill prd-v03-moat-definition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,134 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00126 $0.02134
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01067
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00213

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8023b705dd23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-v03-moat-definition 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 10d 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.

.claude/skills/prd-v03-moat-definition/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Moat Definition

Position in HORIZON workflow: v0.2 Competitive Landscape → v0.3 Moat Definition → v0.3 Pricing Model Selection

Consumes

This skill requires prior work from v0.2:

  • Landscape map artifact (from Competitive Landscape Mapping) — Current behavior documentation, feature matrix, competitor analysis
  • CFD-* entries (competitive intelligence, from Competitive Landscape Mapping) — Documented competitors with pricing, features, user feedback
  • BR-* product type entry (from Product Type Classification) — Classification constrains which competitors are relevant to analyze

This skill assumes v0.2 analysis is complete with documented competitors.

Produces

This skill creates/updates:

  • CFD-* entries (competitor moat analysis) — Assessment of each competitor's defensibility by moat type
  • BR-* entries (targeting rules) — Constraints derived from moat analysis, defining where to compete vs. avoid
  • Moat strength inventory artifact — Summary of competitor moats with vulnerability signals

All CFD moat analysis entries should include:

  • confidence: 2-3/5 (based on public evidence + user interviews about switching friction)
  • Evidence source (pricing pages, reviews, customer interviews)
  • Forward target: "Would move to 4/5 if we interview 5+ current/former customers about switching costs"

Example moat analysis entry:

CFD-055: Competitor Moat Analysis — Notion

Competitor: Notion
Primary Moat Type: Switching Costs (data lock-in)
Moat Strength Tier: Strong
Confidence: 3/5 (source: public-research + 2-user-interviews)
Date: 2026-02-01

Switching Cost Quantification:
  - Financial: Multi-year contract, no early termination ($0 direct cost)
  - Time/Effort: 20+ hours migration, team retraining
  - Data Migration: Proprietary database format (complex export)
  - Workflow Retraining: Unique templates, team habits
  - Integration Rework: Deep Slack/GitHub dependencies

Total Switching Cost: $3K in labor + 20 hours = Material friction
Moat Verdict: Strong — switching costs >$3K + meaningful time investment

Vulnerability Signal: SMB segment with small teams; they use <20% of feature set (opportunity for simpler tool)
Targeting Decision: Avoid direct competition. Wedge in SMB with simplified, cheaper offering.

Evidence:
  - CFD-042 (landscape): Reviews show enterprise love; SMB complaints focus on cost + complexity
  - CFD-015 (value hypothesis): SMB would save $12,500/year with simpler tool
Next Target: "Would move to 4/5 if we interview 5+ SMB teams about exact switching cost dollars"

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 206 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 8023b705dd23

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prd-v03-moat-definition is a skill published in the GitHub repository mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering (182 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 2,134 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 2026-08-30.