comparative-advantage SKILL.md skillA
comparative-advantage from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/comparative-advantage@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
comparative-advantage/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 7,413 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: user says 'should I do this myself or delegate,' 'I'm the best at X so I should do it,' 'should we outsource or build in-house,' 'how should we divide work on the team,' 'is it worth hiring someone for this.' Do NOT activate when: the situation is genuinely single-task with no trade-off; the user is asking about competitive strategy between companies (use Porter's Five Forces instead). More: deciqai.com/s/comparative-advantage.
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
# Comparative Advantage ## Overview Mutually beneficial specialization depends on *relative* productivity, not absolute. Even if you are better than everyone else at every task, you gain by focusing on tasks where your opportunity-cost ratio is lowest and delegating the rest. The right question is not "am I better at X than them?" but "am I better at X *relative to Y* compared to how they are?" Proved by David Ricardo (1817); called "the only proposition in economics that is both true and non-obvious" by Paul Samuelson (1969). Composes with [`opportunity-cost`](../opportunity-cost/SKILL.md), [`pareto-principle`](../pareto-principle/SKILL.md), [`circle-of-competence`](../circle-of-competence/SKILL.md), [`theory-of-constraints`](../theory-of-constraints/SKILL.md). ## When to Use - Founder time allocation across activities; team division of labor - Build vs. buy / in-house vs. outsource decisions - M&A decisions; international operations / supply chain design (e.g. AI-chip re-shoring, chip export controls, semiconductor vertical integration) - Personal career or skill specialization decisions …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/comparative-advantage@sha256:28586e0ae1c1a391The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 7,413 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 7,413 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 7,413 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 7,413 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 7,413 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 (7413 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
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fjrehgn2zziek7ga GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/comparative-advantage GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/28586e0ae1c1a3917c4303203d315a77433755c28a0d4231dddbb38e9c6eb121
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