hierarchy-of-marketplaces

hierarchy-of-marketplaces is a skill for Claude Code from pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management. It costs 92 tokens per session (589 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for growing a marketplace, a business that connects two groups such as buyers and sellers. It recommends focusing on a small market, making it work well, then expanding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan marketplace focus, reach saturation in a chosen segment, improve satisfaction on both sides, and decide when to expand.
Why use it?
Marketplaces often struggle because they need enough participants on both sides; focusing resources helps create useful matches before broad expansion.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pmprompt plugin — 28 skills, 9 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan marketplace focus, reach saturation in a chosen segment, improve satisfaction on both sides, and decide when to expand.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management/hierarchy-of-marketplaces
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 pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management --skill hierarchy-of-marketplaces
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pmprompt, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 9 commands.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 589 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 $0.00092 $0.00589
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00295
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00059

Measured 12d ago against content hash 86bf27e3a322, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hierarchy-of-marketplaces 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 12d 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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/hierarchy-of-marketplaces/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Domain Context

This skill implements a proven product management framework. The approach combines best practices from industry leaders and is designed for practical application in day-to-day PM work.

Input Requirements

  • Context about your product, feature, or problem
  • Relevant data, research, or constraints (recommended but optional)
  • Clear articulation of what you're trying to achieve

Hierarchy of Marketplaces

What It Is

The Hierarchy of Marketplaces is a framework for building defensible marketplace businesses. The core insight: GMV is a vanity metric. Happy GMV is what matters.

Most marketplace founders race to grow GMV as fast as possible, spreading resources thin across markets and categories. This is backwards. The path to a dominant, profitable marketplace requires working through three levels in sequence:

  1. Focus - Constrain your market to a "thimble" and achieve minimum viable happiness
  2. Tip - Reach saturation in your focused market until it tips in your favor
  3. Dominate - Only then expand to adjacent markets and categories

The key shift: Move from asking "How do we grow GMV?" to asking "How do we make both sides of our marketplace so happy they retain?"

When to Use It

Use the Hierarchy of Marketplaces when you need to:

  • Launch a new marketplace and decide where to focus
  • Diagnose why growth is stalling despite increasing GMV
  • Decide when to expand to new markets or categories
  • Evaluate marketplace health beyond top-line metrics
  • Compete against incumbents with more resources
  • Raise funding and demonstrate real marketplace value
  • Choose between depth and breadth in your growth strategy

When Not to Use It

  • You're building a product without two-sided network effects
  • You have unlimited capital and no competition (rare)
  • The market has no potential for winner-take-most dynamics
  • You're optimizing a mature, already-dominant marketplace

Resources

Posts by Sarah Tavel:

  • Hierarchy of Marketplaces series on Medium

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 12d ago First seen · 63 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 86bf27e3a322

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hierarchy-of-marketplaces is a skill published in the GitHub repository pmprompt/claude-plugin-product-management (49 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 589 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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