What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you diagnose whether a proposed plan is real strategy or just goals, vision, or fluff—and then rebuilds it into a coherent strategy kernel (diagnosis + guiding policy + coherent actions).
Core Features & Use Cases
- Strategy kernel evaluation: distinguishes good strategy from bad by checking for a critical diagnosis, a trade-off-bearing guiding policy, and mutually reinforcing actions.
- Pre-mortem stress testing: runs an “18 months later it failed” analysis to surface wrong diagnoses, weak trade-offs, incoherent action sets, or execution/environment/competition risks.
- Bad-strategy detection: identifies the four hallmarks of failure (fluff, failure to face the challenge, goals mistaken for strategy, and bad strategic objectives) and provides repair steps.
- Competitive positioning support (Porter): helps translate strategic positioning and activity fit into practical decisions about what to do and what to refuse.
- Best-fit scenarios: strategy docs, OKRs/roadmaps, investment and hiring priorities, “strategic priorities” presentations, and competitive positioning discussions.
Quick Start
Use the good-strategy skill to evaluate the attached strategy doc by extracting its implied diagnosis, testing for trade-offs, and scoring how coherent the diagnosis-to-actions alignment is.