mergers-and-acquisitions SKILL.md skillA
mergers-and-acquisitions from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/mergers-and-acquisitions@git:20260916.0e7cd01Pins git:20260916.0e7cd01 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/mergers-and-acquisitions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260916.0e7cd01, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,813 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Runs corporate development — deal thesis, target screening, valuation framing, diligence, and integration planning. Use this when considering an acquisition or being approached about one, when evaluating build-versus-buy at company scale, when running or reviewing diligence, or when planning how an acquired business will actually be integrated.
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
# Mergers and acquisitions > Deal execution requires qualified legal, tax, and accounting advisers. This structures the > commercial thinking and identifies what needs specialist work; it does not substitute for it. ## The thesis comes first, and in writing Before looking at any target: what would an acquisition get us that we cannot build or partner our way to, and why is buying better? Legitimate theses are specific — a capability that would take three years to build, access to a customer base we cannot reach, consolidation economics in a fragmenting market, a team with scarce expertise. Illegitimate theses, all common: growth for its own sake, defensive panic, the target became available, and the belief that two struggling businesses combine into a healthy one. **Write the thesis before the target.** A thesis reverse-engineered to fit an available company will justify anything. ## Screening Score candidates against the thesis, not against how impressive they are. The best target is frequently the boring one that fits precisely. Assess cultural and operating-model fit early rather than as a soft afterthought. Integration failure …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/mergers-and-acquisitions@sha256:8e2a8fb4cf4d7a98The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.0e7cd01, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_chxlewgapamo5pfu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 29, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.0e7cd01 latest | 2026-09-16 | 0e7cd01 | 3,813 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.635d8e8 | 2026-08-29 | 635d8e8 | 3,474 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3813 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
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_chxlewgapamo5pfu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/mergers-and-acquisitions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8e2a8fb4cf4d7a982c8527ca0f7c9b214ee4aa78e38fb876320aee447dca4c98
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.