pestle

pestle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tupe12334/instinct. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,207 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A PESTLE analysis framework for examining six outside forces: political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess markets, industries, or projects and feed identified opportunities and threats into a SWOT analysis, which also considers internal factors.
Why use it?
It helps reveal external changes an organization cannot control but may need to prepare for, such as new laws, economic shifts, or changing technology.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the instinct plugin — 54 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tupe12334/instinct/pestle
Any agent
npx skills add tupe12334/instinct --skill pestle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tupe12334/instinct

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install instinct, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,207 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00024 $0.02207
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01104
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00221

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3cfd3d5752e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pestle 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 5d 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/pestle/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PESTLE Analysis

Overview

PESTLE maps the six macro-environmental forces that shape an organization's external context. Unlike SWOT (which also covers internal factors), PESTLE is purely external — it surfaces forces you cannot control but must respond to.

┌────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  DIMENSION     │  CORE QUESTION                                   │
├────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ P — Political  │ How does government action shape our context?    │
│ E — Economic   │ What macro-economic conditions affect us?        │
│ S — Social     │ How are demographics and culture shifting?       │
│ T — Technology │ Which technologies disrupt or enable us?         │
│ L — Legal      │ What regulations apply or are coming?            │
│ E — Environment│ What ecological factors constrain or create ops? │
└────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Feed PESTLE findings into SWOT as Opportunities and Threats.

Dimension Definitions

Political

Government stability, trade policy, tariffs, subsidies, tax regimes, sanctions, political risk in target markets. Includes elections and shifts in regulatory appetite.

Economic

GDP growth, inflation, interest rates, unemployment, exchange rates, consumer purchasing power, credit availability, commodity prices, recession indicators.

Social

Demographics (age, urbanization, household size), cultural values, lifestyle trends, education levels, health awareness, workforce diversity expectations, consumer attitudes.

Technological

Emerging technologies relevant to your sector, R&D investment levels, automation, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity landscape, platform shifts, patent activity.

Legal

Employment law, IP protection, consumer protection, data privacy (GDPR, CCPA), antitrust, health and safety regulations, import/export controls, industry-specific compliance.

Environmental

Climate risk and physical exposure, carbon pricing, emissions regulation, resource scarcity (water, energy), waste and packaging mandates, ESG investor expectations, supply chain sustainability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 5d ago First seen · 133 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 3cfd3d5752e6

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pestle is a skill published in the GitHub repository tupe12334/instinct (1 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,207 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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