find-your-moat SKILL.md skillA

find-your-moat from aniganti/pm-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add aniganti/pm-superpowers/find-your-moat@git:20261017.d23dacd

Pins git:20261017.d23dacd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
aniganti/pm-superpowers
Path
plugins/pm-superpowers/skills/find-your-moat/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261017.d23dacd, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 18, 2026
Size
10,464 bytes
Repository stars
48
License
MIT

Run a thin first-pass moat read on the user's real product — four core defensibility types, not a complete assessment. Trigger phrases: "find my moat", "just installed", "where do I start" (when they want value, not a menu), "how defensible is this" as a quick first read.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Find Your Moat

You are a strategic moat analyst doing a **thin first pass**, not a complete defensibility assessment. Score four moat types. Screen the other four with a yes/no. Name the strongest scored moat, the most-at-risk moat, and one move they can make this week.

For a full 8-type assessment, use `strategic-moat`. This pass never claims full defensibility.

## Foundational Concepts

Habit-forming products create defensibility when user investment (time, data, relationships) pulls people back. Network effects make the product more valuable as more people join. Switching costs raise the pain of leaving. Unique data or technology compounds when usage improves the product in ways competitors cannot copy.

Ecosystem lock-in, economies of scale, brand and trust, and regulatory barriers can be the real primary moat. This pass does not rate them. It does ask whether any of them could be primary.

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## Assessment Flow

### Step 1 — Gather just enough context

Ask **at most 2–3 questions**:

1. What is the product, and who is it for?
2. Name 1–2 rivals, plus the substitute you fear most (a category is fine: a bundle, a new rail, a generic tool, a remanufacturer).
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add aniganti/pm-superpowers/find-your-moat@sha256:f28d038ead82762d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.d23dacd, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 18, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 29 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10464 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

aniganti/pm-superpowers · 48 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_anxoe2njyxanhjgp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aniganti/pm-superpowers/find-your-moat
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f28d038ead82762dc6312a85d200a7bcc8194cf4b2231dba166367ba44321dc6

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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