porters-five-forces

porters-five-forces is a skill for Claude Code from tupe12334/instinct. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,059 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An industry-competition framework that examines five forces: new competitors, suppliers, buyers, substitute products, and rivalry. It helps estimate how attractive an industry may be for making profits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess an industry, compare market opportunities, or test the strength of a competitive position.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to see what could reduce prices, raise costs, or make competition harder. This helps reveal risks before entering a market or launching a product.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to assess an industry, compare market opportunities, or test the strength of a competitive position.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tupe12334/instinct/porters-five-forces
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,059 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 $0.00028 $0.02059
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01030
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00206

Measured 8d ago against content hash 03350ba8c7de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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/porters-five-forces/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Porter's Five Forces

Overview

Industry-level competitive analysis developed by Michael Porter. Measures the structural forces that determine how much profit potential an industry holds. Use it before entering a market, launching a product, or stress-testing a competitive position.

                        THREAT OF NEW ENTRANTS
                                 ▲
                                 │
  SUPPLIER POWER ───── INDUSTRY RIVALRY ───── BUYER POWER
                                 │
                                 ▼
                        THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES

High force intensity = low industry attractiveness (profits get competed away). Low force intensity = pricing power and sustained margins.

The Five Forces

1 — Threat of New Entrants

How easy is it for new competitors to enter?

  • Raises threat: low capital requirements, no IP protection, commodity product, low switching costs
  • Lowers threat: patents, regulatory licenses, economies of scale, strong brand loyalty, network effects, high upfront investment
  • Rate: Low / Medium / High

2 — Supplier Power

How much leverage do suppliers have over your costs?

  • Raises power: few suppliers, no substitutes for inputs, suppliers can forward-integrate, your industry is a small customer for them
  • Lowers power: many competing suppliers, you can backward-integrate, inputs are commodities, switching costs are low
  • Rate: Low / Medium / High

3 — Buyer Power

How much leverage do customers have over your prices?

  • Raises power: few large customers, product is undifferentiated, buyers can backward-integrate, buyers are price-sensitive, low switching costs
  • Lowers power: fragmented customer base, high switching costs, product is essential or highly differentiated
  • Rate: Low / Medium / High

4 — Threat of Substitutes

How likely are customers to switch to a different solution?

  • Raises threat: substitute meets same need at lower price or higher convenience, low switching costs, buyers are willing to experiment
  • Lowers threat: no close substitute exists, substitute requires behavior change, strong brand allegiance to your product
  • Rate: Low / Medium / High

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 lines

Changes

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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. 8d ago First seen · 154 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 03350ba8c7de

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porters-five-forces is a skill published in the GitHub repository tupe12334/instinct (1 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,059 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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