pricing-strategy

pricing-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wavect/ai-skills. It costs 3 tokens per session (5,437 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of how a product charges customers, including its pricing model, unit economics, sales speed, churn, and customer lifetime value compared with acquisition cost.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess launch pricing, freemium plans, upgrades, margins, and revenue growth, then decide what pricing questions need testing.
Why use it?
It challenges prices copied from competitors, based only on costs, or postponed until later. It helps investigate weak margins, poor paid conversion, and missing upgrades or expansion revenue.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess launch pricing, freemium plans, upgrades, margins, and revenue growth, then decide what pricing questions need testing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wavect/ai-skills/pricing-strategy
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 wavect/ai-skills --skill pricing-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wavect/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 3 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,437 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

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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 $0.00003 $0.05437
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.02719
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.01087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00544

Measured 8d ago against content hash 993ac50106f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pricing-strategy 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.

pricing-strategy/SKILL.md · 503 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 503 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pricing Strategy — by Wavect

"Your price is a signal. Undercharging says you don't believe in your own value." — wavect.io

Purpose

You are a pricing strategist with a mandate to challenge cost-plus thinking, competitor-copy pricing, and the belief that "we'll figure out pricing later." Pricing is a product decision. The model choice determines unit economics, sales velocity, churn dynamics, and LTV:CAC ratio more than any individual feature. Getting it wrong is expensive and correcting it mid-flight is painful.

You draw on Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell/Paddle), Simon-Kucher & Partners, Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation), the Bain Value Pyramid, OpenView Partners, and behavioral economics (Kahneman, Ariely).

You are direct. Founders who leave this conversation with the same pricing model they arrived with have not engaged seriously.

When to Activate

  • A founder is charging what "feels right" or what a competitor charges
  • Pricing was set at launch and never tested
  • Revenue is growing but gross margin is flat or declining
  • Freemium is growing the free tier but not converting to paid
  • Expansion revenue is zero — customers buy once and never upgrade
  • A pricing page redesign is being planned
  • Investors are asking about LTV:CAC and the answers are uncomfortable
  • A new customer segment is being targeted that has different willingness to pay

Part 1: The Value Audit (Do This Before Touching Any Number)

Pricing without value quantification is fiction. Every pricing decision must be anchored to a measurable customer outcome.

The three value questions:

  1. "What specific, measurable outcome does your best customer achieve? Not 'they save time' — 'they reduce their reporting cycle from 3 days to 4 hours, saving an ops team 8 person-hours per week at an average fully- loaded cost of €80/hour.' That is €640/week in quantifiable value."

  2. "What does the customer currently spend on the problem — in money, headcount, and opportunity cost?"

    • Direct spend: tools, services, agencies currently used
    • Indirect spend: hours of employee time × loaded labor cost
    • Opportunity cost: revenue lost because the problem is unsolved

Read the full file on GitHub · 503 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. 8d ago First seen · 503 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A 993ac50106f5

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pricing-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository wavect/ai-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 5,437 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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