Strategy Skills

What strategy-skills does

The strategy-skills MCP server packages 11 open strategy frameworks as structured markdown prompts. Each skill guides an AI model through a specific line of inquiry rather than providing a conventional data API. The collection is intended for strategic thinking sessions in which the model asks questions, identifies patterns, examines contradictions, and produces an actionable result.

The frameworks cover two broad areas. The first examines an organization’s current position through strategic diagnosis, causal mapping, competitive advantage, environmental scanning, market positioning, component evolution, and culture assessment. The second supports decisions and execution through first-principles reasoning, the Playing to Win strategy cascade, pre-mortems, and a Track Two innovation system for new revenue streams.

How it works

Each skill is a single SKILL.md file in the Agents Skills format. Skills can be used individually or coordinated through STRATEGY.md, the orchestrator included in the install directory. The repository describes three operating modes for every skill:

• Diagnostic: an initial session lasting roughly 30–60 minutes
• Review: a recurring reassessment lasting roughly 15–20 minutes
• Alert Triggers: early-warning conditions to watch between sessions

Sessions share information through company-context.md. Skills read and update this file so strategic context can accumulate across conversations. The material is model-agnostic and can be supplied to models that read markdown, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other listed environments.

Setup and configuration

The strategy-skills MCP server can be added with the Skills CLI:

npx skills add eterdis/strategy-skills

Claude Code users can instead add the repository as a plugin marketplace source:

/plugin marketplace add eterdis/strategy-skills

For a source-based installation, clone the repository and point the AI agent at the install directory. That directory contains STRATEGY.md, the individual skills, and a company-context.md template. A single skill can also be downloaded directly, such as strategy-diagnostic/SKILL.md, with curl.

The repository’s instructions also describe using the files as project knowledge in Claude Projects or pasting their contents into ChatGPT custom instructions, a first message, or a model system prompt. No environment variables are documented.

Tools and capabilities

The strategy-skills MCP server includes these frameworks:

• strategy-diagnostic: assesses the situation and identifies which frameworks to run
• strategy-map: maps the chain from resources to results and expectations to requirements
• vrio-analysis: examines whether advantages are valuable, rare, and durable
• environmental-radar: scans external forces using PESTEL
• market-position: examines actual competitive positioning
• wardley-map: maps component evolution in a value chain
• culture-assessment: compares stated and actual culture
• first-principles-strategy: works backward from a theoretical maximum to an initial move
• playing-to-win: structures five strategic choices
• pre-mortem: explores how a plan could fail
• protoloop-setup: designs a Track Two innovation system for new revenue streams

Limitations and notes

The strategy-skills MCP server provides thinking tools, not professional advice. Its outputs depend on the AI model and the information supplied during sessions, and the repository notes that language models can make mistakes. Users remain responsible for decisions based on the results.

It also does not describe automatic access to business systems or external data sources. The license is CC BY 4.0, with attribution to Eterdis AS required.