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pricing-strategy

When the user wants help with pricing decisions, packaging, or monetization strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'packaging,' 'price increase,' 'value metric,' 'Van Westendorp,' 'willingness to pay,' or 'monetization.' This skill covers pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy.

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Content

71%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is well-structured with strong progressive disclosure (real, one-level-deep references) and concrete actionable frameworks. Its main weakness is conciseness — several sections restate general pricing psychology and definitions Claude already knows — and the topical, non-sequential organization limits workflow clarity below a 5.

Suggestions

Trim restated general knowledge in 'What is a Value Metric?' and the 'Pricing Psychology' definitions (anchoring, decoy effect, charm/round pricing); assume Claude knows these and keep only the skill-specific application.

Reorganize the body into an explicit end-to-end sequence (context gathering → research → tier/metric design → price point → pricing page → validate) with a checklist checkpoint at each stage, rather than parallel topical sections.

Add concrete specifics to the 'Pricing Page Best Practices' section (e.g., example tier-comparison table structure, concrete CTA wording) so the guidance is executable rather than a list of elements.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient bullets and tables, but it re-explains concepts Claude already knows (value-metric definitions, the anchoring/decoy/charm-pricing entries in Pricing Psychology, 'price should be based on value delivered, not cost to serve'), which keeps it below a 4.

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete frameworks and specifics — Good-Better-Best, the three pricing axes, a value-metric comparison table, Van Westendorp's four questions, and numeric thresholds ('>40% conversion,' '<3% monthly churn,' '17-20% annual discount') — with minor gaps in the pricing-page section which lists elements without implementation detail.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Has a 'Before Starting' gating sequence and a Pricing Checklist as checkpoints, but the body is organized topically rather than as a single end-to-end research-to-pricing sequence with feedback loops, so it does not reach a 5.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Clear overview with well-signaled, one-level-deep references to real files ('references/tier-structure.md', 'references/research-methods.md'), both verified to exist, with detailed material appropriately split out and inline overview content kept tight.

5 / 5

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Description

95%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is strong: it states the skill's capabilities, provides an extensive list of natural trigger terms, and clearly answers both what and when. The only minor gap is that the 'what' is stated at the capability-area level rather than as fully granular actions, capping specificity at 4.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the pricing domain plus several concrete capability areas ('pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy'), but the actions are capability categories rather than maximally granular operations, so it sits below a 5.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' ('This skill covers pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy') and 'when' ('Also use when the user mentions...') with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural-term coverage — 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'packaging,' 'price increase,' 'value metric,' 'Van Westendorp,' 'willingness to pay,' 'monetization' — including domain synonyms users would actually say.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear pricing/monetization niche with distinct, domain-specific triggers and minimal overlap risk with adjacent marketing skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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