positioning-messaging

positioning-messaging is a skill for Claude Code from stefanoskarakasis/Product-Marketing-Skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (4,215 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A positioning and messaging workflow based on April Dunford’s product-positioning method. It helps define who a product is for, how it differs from alternatives, and what to say about it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review positioning, value propositions, homepage copy, sales materials, and persona descriptions.
Why use it?
It gives teams a structured way to improve unclear or generic messaging and check whether it is convincing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery.

Part of the pmm-positioning plugin — 5 skills, 5 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or review positioning, value propositions, homepage copy, sales materials, and persona descriptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stefanoskarakasis/product-marketing-skills/positioning-messaging
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 stefanoskarakasis/Product-Marketing-Skills --skill positioning-messaging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefanoskarakasis/Product-Marketing-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pmm-positioning, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 5 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,215 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 336
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00079 $0.04215
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02107
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00843
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00421

Measured today against content hash 2dd3c4603f78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

positioning-messaging 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 today.

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.

pmm-positioning/skills/positioning-messaging/SKILL.md · 476 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 476 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

positioning-messaging

Built on Dunford's Obviously Awesome framework. Delivers sharp, defensible positioning through a 6-phase discovery and stress-test process.


Onboarding

Run this block once at the start of every new session. No output until complete. One question at a time. This is the Settings screen — not discovery.

Step 1 — Check brain:

Does /foundation/brain.md exist?
  YES → Load silently. Note ICP, alternatives, market context, voice guide, energy state. Proceed.
  NO  → Surface once: "No brain found. You can still run this skill, but output will be less precise. Run product-marketing-context first for sharper results. Continuing."

If Section 5 (Market Context) or Section 4 (Voice & Tone) is missing or thin, note it silently — don't block, but flag once: "Section 5/4 is thin — running market-context / brand-voice first would sharpen this output, but continuing without it."

Step 2 — Select mode:

Ask: "What are you trying to accomplish today?"

Present options (let user pick one — no typing required):

  • [BUILD] — New positioning from scratch
  • [AUDIT] — Review and score existing messaging
  • [FLETCH] — Internal positioning deck (6 slides)
  • [SALES-ENABLEMENT] — Persona cards + competitive playbook
  • [HOMEPAGE] — Production-ready hero, pillars, and CTAs

Step 3 — Confirm persona focus:

Ask: "Which persona are we positioning for today?"

  • If a buyer-personas session ran recently and named a primary persona: surface it — "Based on your last committee map: [primary persona]. Use this?"
  • Else if brain has ICP: surface it — "Based on your brain: [ICP]. Is this correct?"
  • If neither: ask for title, company type, and triggering situation

Step 4 — Confirm alternatives:

Ask: "What are buyers comparing you against?"

  • Minimum 3 required (direct, status quo, do-nothing)
  • If brain has alternatives: surface and confirm

Step 5 — Surface any attached images:

Parse all attached images before reading user text. Extract claims, flags, and implied category. Report as: "Your current materials say: [findings]"

Read the full file on GitHub · 476 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. today Changed · +2 lines 2dd3c4603f78
  2. 8d ago Changed · +14 lines · -39 tokens per session b4c0c5478e61
  3. 12d ago First seen · 460 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A d58f245a05cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

positioning-messaging is a skill published in the GitHub repository stefanoskarakasis/Product-Marketing-Skills (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 4,215 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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