Strategy & Growth skills for your AI agent.
Four skills, and unlike the other categories they aren’t a toolkit — they’re four distinct decisions about where the company plays. Good Strategy Bad Strategy tests whether what you call a strategy is one: a diagnosis of the critical challenge, a guiding policy, coherent action. Blue Ocean Strategy asks whether the factors your industry competes on are worth competing on at all. Crossing the Chasm handles the sequencing problem — which segment first, and what pragmatic buyers demand before they’ll follow the enthusiasts. Cold Start Problem is for products that are worthless until other people show up.
The change is in what your agent refuses to accept. Ask an unequipped agent for a strategy and you get a vision statement, a list of goals with percentages, and initiatives named after departments. With these it will tell you that “become the leading platform” is an aspiration rather than a policy, that your deck would survive a competitor pasting it into theirs unchanged, and that forty priorities is another way of saying you’ve concentrated nothing.
02 Choosing
Which strategy skill matches the decision I’m making?
Each of the four answers a different question. Run the first one regardless.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy comes first whatever follows: it tells you whether you have a strategy or a wish list. Then add whichever matches your market — crowded, sequential, or networked.
A beachhead built on no diagnosis is only a more specific wish.
03 The four skills
All four Strategy & Growth skills.
Each installs on its own, in about thirty seconds, and works in any agent that reads the open agentskills.io format.
04 Used by
Where these four
get sequenced.
Guides and guided journeys that run Strategy & Growth skills alongside the rest of the library — in the order that stops you fixing the wrong thing first.
05 Questions
Before you install.
The four we get asked most about this stack. The generic ones — pricing, licence, agents — live on the library page.
Only four skills — is this category thinner than the others?
It’s smaller by design, not by neglect. Strategy is a handful of infrequent, expensive decisions rather than a daily practice, so there’s less to route between. The four here don’t overlap much: one tests the quality of a plan, one redraws the competitive factors, one sequences market entry, one handles network effects. Most companies genuinely need one or two, and installing all four is cheap enough that the choice barely matters.
Do Blue Ocean Strategy and Crossing the Chasm contradict each other?
They assume different worlds and will give you conflicting advice if you apply them at once. Blue Ocean says stop competing — change the factors so the comparison stops making sense. Crossing the Chasm says win a comparison decisively inside an existing category, because pragmatic buyers need references from people like them. Ask which problem you have: buyers who can’t tell the alternatives apart, or buyers who understand the category perfectly and won’t go first.
Do I need Cold Start Problem if I’m not building a marketplace?
Only if your product’s value depends on other users being present — team collaboration tools, social products, developer ecosystems, anything two-sided. If a single user gets full value on day one, the framework’s core mechanic doesn’t apply and Crossing the Chasm fits your growth path far better. The tell is whether early users churn because the product is bad, or because nobody else is there yet.
Can an AI agent be genuinely useful on strategy, or is this a human call?
The decisions stay yours. What the agent contributes is the discipline these frameworks encode — refusing to accept a goal list as a diagnosis, naming which competitive factor you’ve never questioned, asking what you’ll stop doing. That’s exactly the work that gets skipped in a room full of people who want to agree. Treat the output as a demanding reviewer of your thinking, not a substitute for it.
Every skill installs alone. The library installs together.
Install all four, or just one.
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