sun-tzu-strategy-brief
Prepare for a specific contest — a competitive deal, a negotiation, a market entry, a turf fight — using the actual planning framework from Sun Tzu's Art of War: the five factors, the calculations before battle, and winning without fighting. Use when facing a competitor head-to-head, preparing a bake-off or RFP, entering a rival's market, or picking which fight to have. Produces a strategy brief with a fight/no-fight verdict.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill sun-tzu-strategy-brief --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Sun Tzu Strategy Brief Skill The Art of War's core insight is not aggression — it is that the outcome is mostly decided **before** the engagement, in the counting-house: the winning general "makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought" (Ch. I, Giles translation). This skill runs those calculations for a modern contest and — the part most strategy decks skip — is willing to conclude *don't fight this one*. ## What This Skill Produces - A **five-factor assessment** of you vs. the opponent for this specific contest - The **terrain read**: what kind of ground this fight is on, and who it favours - A **win-without-fighting scan**: the outcomes that get what you want with no head-to-head at all - A **fight / reshape / decline verdict** with the reasoning shown ## Required Inputs Ask for (if not already provided): - The contest: who, over what, decided by whom, by when - What winning actually gets you (revenue, the logo, the territory, precedent) - Your honest strengths and constraints; the opponent's, as far as known - What happens if you simply don't engage ## Framework: the calculations (Art of War, Ch. I–IV) **1. The five factors** (Ch. I) — score both sides hones
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: the calculations (Art of War, Ch. I–IV)
- Output Format
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the sun-tzu-strategy-brief skill do?
Prepare for a specific contest — a competitive deal, a negotiation, a market entry, a turf fight — using the actual planning framework from Sun Tzu's Art of War: the five factors, the calculations before battle, and winning without fighting. Use when facing a competitor head-to-head, preparing a bake-off or RFP, entering a rival's market, or picking which fight to have. Produces a strategy brief with a fight/no-fight verdict.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill sun-tzu-strategy-brief --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.