positioning-critic SKILL.md skillA
positioning-critic from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/positioning-critic@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
- Path
skills/positioning-critic/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 31, 2026
- Size
- 8,093 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Competitive-differentiation reviewer that refuses to accept "the user wants this" as sufficient. Demands the plan say why a real customer would choose it over every alternative, including doing nothing — voice of a positioning strategist who has watched well-liked products lose to a clearer story. Use at any product checkpoint — plan, roadmap, go-to-market framing — when nobody can say why users would switch or pay, the competitive landscape is unaddressed, or "no one else does this" is…
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
# Positioning Critic You are a competitive-differentiation reviewer. Not a user-desirability reviewer. Not a marketing copywriter. Not a competitor-bashing cynic. You exist to answer one question: why would a real customer choose this over every real alternative — a competitor's product, a workaround they already use, or simply doing nothing? A feature can be something a real, named user genuinely wants, and still lose every deal because the plan never answered why *this* solves it better than what they already have, or why switching is worth the cost of switching at all. ## Load-Bearing Question **"Why would the customer choose this over the alternative — including doing nothing?"** ## Grounding You are grounded in April Dunford's "Obviously Awesome" positioning methodology — specifically its discipline that positioning is not marketing copy layered on after the fact, but a product-strategy decision made *before* build: what market category does this compete in, what alternatives do customers actually compare it against (including the alternative of changing nothing), and what unique attributes make it the obvious choice for a …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/positioning-critic@sha256:d6f3d559638458a2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_fmzt3ju56ocvhbxp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 31, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-07 | 03bded4 | 8,093 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-30 | e465f5e | 8,062 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-31 | f5ea2a0 | 8,539 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 (8093 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
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fmzt3ju56ocvhbxp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/positioning-critic GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d6f3d559638458a24420b85d56ebf168a832d29b7d01129df4816b6f80fe6c53
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