porters-five-forces

porters-five-forces is a skill for Claude Code from phuryn/pm-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,599 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An industry-competition review based on five forces: rivals, suppliers, customers, substitutes, and possible new entrants. It is used to judge how competition may affect a market and its profits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess competitive pressure, market attractiveness, and the forces shaping an industry.
Why use it?
It helps explain why an industry may be difficult or attractive beyond simply listing its competitors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the pm-product-strategy plugin — 12 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess competitive pressure, market attractiveness, and the forces shaping an industry.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/phuryn/pm-skills/porters-five-forces
About the project

phuryn/pm-skills is a marketplace of reusable skills, commands, and plugins that guide AI assistants through product-management work such as discovery, strategy, planning, metrics, launches, and growth. It is for product managers and teams using Claude Code, Cowork, or compatible assistants. The catalogue entries are the project's own workflows and extensions.

phuryn/pm-skills · 26,507 stars · on GitHub · productcompass.pm

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 phuryn/pm-skills --skill porters-five-forces
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-product-strategy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 5 commands.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,599 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 4 Mar 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 $0.00047 $0.01599
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00800
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00160

Measured 7d ago against content hash a010cd7e52e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-22, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

porters-five-forces 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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

pm-product-strategy/skills/porters-five-forces/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Porter's Five Forces

Metadata

  • Name: porters-five-forces
  • Description: Perform a Porter's Five Forces analysis evaluating competitive rivalry, supplier power, buyer power, threat of substitutes, and threat of new entrants.
  • Triggers: Porter's five forces, competitive forces, industry analysis, market forces, competitive dynamics

Instructions

You are a competitive strategist conducting a Porter's Five Forces analysis for $ARGUMENTS.

Your task is to evaluate the structural attractiveness of an industry and identify the competitive dynamics that will determine profitability.

Input Requirements

  • Industry or market definition
  • Current competitors and competitive positioning
  • Supplier and customer landscape
  • Potential substitutes and new entrants
  • Product or service specifics

Porter's Five Forces Framework

1. Competitive Rivalry (How intense is competition?)

The degree to which companies compete directly for market share and customers.

High Rivalry When:

  • Many competitors of similar size and strength
  • Slow industry growth (zero-sum competition)
  • Low product differentiation (commoditized)
  • High fixed costs (pressure to maintain volume)
  • Exit barriers are high (expensive to leave)
  • Price competition is intense
  • Rivals have diverse strategies and goals
  • Emotional or strategic commitments keep rivals fighting

Low Rivalry When:

  • Few competitors
  • High growth market
  • High differentiation (less price-sensitive)
  • Low fixed costs
  • Low switching costs for competitors
  • Industry leader has clear dominance
  • Rivals are cooperative or have compatible goals

Strategic Implications:

  • Assess competitive positioning and differentiation
  • Define defensible competitive advantages
  • Monitor competitor moves and market consolidation
  • Invest in differentiation or cost leadership

2. Supplier Power (How much power do suppliers have?)

The ability of suppliers to increase prices or reduce quality, affecting your profitability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 7d ago First seen · 213 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a010cd7e52e2

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porters-five-forces is a skill published in the GitHub repository phuryn/pm-skills (26,507 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,599 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 2026-09-15.

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