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seven-powers

Use when asked to "7 Powers", "build a competitive moat", "analyze defensibility", "find sustainable advantage", "economic moats", or "Hamilton Helmer framework". Helps identify durable competitive advantages. The 7 Powers framework (created by Hamilton Helmer) reveals the economic structures that protect business value from competition.

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Quality

Content

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

The body is a well-organized but shallow conceptual overview: it motivates the framework and sets usage boundaries, yet never lists the seven powers, provides no analysis procedure, and pads itself with boilerplate sections. It reads more like an introduction to a skill that is missing its actual content than an operational instruction file.

Suggestions

Enumerate the seven powers (e.g., network effects, counter-positioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resource, process power, scale economies) with a one-line definition and a diagnostic question for each, either inline or in a references/ file linked from the body.

Add a concrete analysis workflow — steps like gathering business context, mapping candidate powers, testing whether a barrier blocks competitors, and validating conclusions against evidence — so the skill instructs rather than describes.

Remove the filler "Domain Context" and "Input Requirements" sections and consolidate the book list and single external link into one short section to reclaim tokens.

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Conciseness

The core sections ("What It Is", "When to Use It", "When Not to Use It") are efficient, but the boilerplate "Domain Context" ("a proven product management framework... combines best practices from industry leaders") and the generic "Input Requirements" section add no framework-specific value and should be trimmed. This matches anchor 3 (mostly efficient with some unnecessary padding) rather than 4, where only minor instances of over-explanation would remain.

3 / 5

Actionability

The body defines the concept ("Power = Benefit + Barrier") and lists use cases but provides almost no executable guidance — it never enumerates the seven powers, offers no diagnostic questions or procedure for assessing them, and includes no worked example. It fits anchor 2 (high-level hints, missing the specific steps to execute) rather than 3, since there is no partially-complete method, only conceptual framing.

2 / 5

Workflow Clarity

No analysis sequence exists: there is no step ordering for applying the framework (e.g., gather business context, map candidate powers, test barriers, prioritize), and no checkpoints for validating conclusions. The "When to Use It / When Not to Use It" lists give rough entry criteria, which is a rough partial structure with many gaps (anchor 2) rather than a listed-but-unvalidated sequence (anchor 3).

2 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is under 50 lines with no bundle files (references/, scripts/, assets/ do not exist) and clear, well-signaled section headers, which per the simple-skill note supports a high score. It falls to 4 rather than 5 because the substantial material a user would need — the enumeration of the seven powers — is absent entirely rather than placed in a references file, and the trailing "Resources" book list plus a single external "Further Reading" link are disconnected stubs.

4 / 5

Total

11

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20

Passed

Description

78%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.

A strong description with explicit, well-chosen trigger phrases, third-person voice, and a clear what/when pair. Its main weakness is thin action specificity — it describes what the framework reveals more than what the skill concretely does — plus a few missing natural synonyms that create slight overlap risk with generic strategy skills.

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Specificity

The description names the domain and one concrete action — "Helps identify durable competitive advantages" — but the remaining text ("reveals the economic structures that protect business value") restates the concept rather than listing actions. It matches anchor 3 (domain plus 1-2 concrete actions, not comprehensive) and not 4, since it never enumerates several specific actions like evaluating defensibility, designing for durability, or prioritizing initiatives.

3 / 5

Completeness

Both halves are explicit: the when opens with "Use when asked to" followed by six concrete trigger phrases, and the what is stated directly ("Helps identify durable competitive advantages" plus what the framework reveals). It clearly fits anchor 5 rather than 4, where the 'when' would be less explicit or specific; the description uses proper third-person voice ("Helps identify").

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural coverage with multiple phrasings a user would actually say: "build a competitive moat", "analyze defensibility", "economic moats", "Hamilton Helmer framework", "find sustainable advantage". Not a 5 because common variations like "competitive advantage analysis", "business strategy", or "Buffett moats" are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche is clear — "7 Powers", "Hamilton Helmer framework" — with mostly distinct triggers, but phrases like "find sustainable advantage" and "durable competitive advantages" are broad strategy vocabulary that a general business-strategy skill could also claim, giving minor overlap risk (anchor 4) rather than minimal conflict (anchor 5).

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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saski/arnesto

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.agents/skills/seven-powers/SKILL.md

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