step-1-define-problem

step-1-define-problem is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wheatli/mckinsey-7-strategy. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,807 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

The first step in the McKinsey seven-step method for defining a business problem. It turns a vague idea into a focused question using SCQA—situation, complication, question, and answer—and records the decision-maker, limits, and success criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating a problem document called step-1-problem.md after project setup.
Why use it?
It gives a project a clear question and definition of success before research begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the mckinsey-7-steps plugin — 9 skills 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/wheatli/mckinsey-7-strategy/step-1-define-problem
Any agent
npx skills add wheatli/mckinsey-7-strategy --skill step-1-define-problem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wheatli/mckinsey-7-strategy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mckinsey-7-steps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for step-1-define-problem

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wheatli/mckinsey-7-strategy/step-1-define-problem.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wheatli/mckinsey-7-strategy/step-1-define-problem)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wheatli/mckinsey-7-strategy/step-1-define-problem"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wheatli/mckinsey-7-strategy/step-1-define-problem.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,807 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00075 $0.01807
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00903
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00181

Measured 4d ago against content hash 248089c7714f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

step-1-define-problem 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 4d 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/step-1-define-problem/SKILL.md · 164 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 164 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 248089c7714f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

step-1-define-problem is a skill published in the GitHub repository wheatli/mckinsey-7-strategy (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,807 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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