porters-value-chain

porters-value-chain is a skill for Claude Code from tupe12334/instinct. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,446 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A business-analysis method that examines how a company creates value, from receiving supplies and running operations to sales, delivery, service, staff, technology, and purchasing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess competitive advantage across a company’s main activities and supporting functions.
Why use it?
It shows where a company may gain an advantage or spend unnecessary time and money.

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 competitive advantage across a company’s main activities and supporting functions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tupe12334/instinct/porters-value-chain
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tupe12334/instinct --skill porters-value-chain
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 2,446 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 $0.02446
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01223
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00489
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00245

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7f186e616bb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

porters-value-chain 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 9d 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-value-chain/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Porter's Value Chain

Overview

Developed by Michael Porter, the Value Chain disaggregates a firm into the discrete activities it performs to design, produce, market, deliver, and support its product. Every activity either adds cost or creates value — competitive advantage emerges when a firm performs activities more cheaply or distinctively than rivals.

SUPPORT ACTIVITIES
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Firm Infrastructure  (finance, legal, planning, QA)            │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Human Resource Management  (recruit, train, incentivize)       │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Technology Development  (R&D, process automation, IP)          │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Procurement  (supplier contracts, purchasing policies)         │
└──────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬─────────────┘
       │          │          │          │          │
  INBOUND    OPERATIONS  OUTBOUND  MARKETING   SERVICE
 LOGISTICS              LOGISTICS   & SALES
       │          │          │          │          │
       └──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
                       PRIMARY ACTIVITIES                ──► MARGIN

Activity Definitions

Primary Activities

1 — Inbound Logistics

Receiving, storing, and distributing inputs to the production process.

  • Examples: supplier relationships, warehousing, inventory management, raw-material handling, just-in-time delivery
2 — Operations

Transforming inputs into the final product or service.

  • Examples: manufacturing, assembly, packaging, equipment maintenance, quality control, facility operations
3 — Outbound Logistics

Collecting, storing, and distributing the product to buyers.

  • Examples: finished-goods warehousing, order fulfillment, distribution network, delivery scheduling, returns handling
4 — Marketing and Sales

Providing the means for buyers to purchase the product and inducing them to do so.

  • Examples: channel selection, advertising, pricing, sales force, promotions, market research

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 9d ago First seen · 166 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 7f186e616bb6

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porters-value-chain is a skill published in the GitHub repository tupe12334/instinct (1 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,446 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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