strategic-alliances SKILL.md skillA
strategic-alliances 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/strategic-alliances@git:20260901.aa45383Pins git:20260901.aa45383 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/strategic-alliances/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260901.aa45383, committed Sep 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,575 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Structures partnerships that change what the business can do — technology integrations, channel and reseller arrangements, joint ventures, and OEM relationships. Use this to evaluate or structure a strategic partnership, decide between partnering and building, negotiate commercial terms of an alliance, or diagnose a partnership that is signed but not producing. For audience-borrowing partnerships, use `marketing:partnership-marketing`.
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
# Strategic alliances Distinct from marketing partnerships. Those borrow an audience; these change what the business can do or where it can sell. ## Partner, build, or buy Partner when the capability is genuinely outside your core, the partner is materially better at it, and the arrangement can be unwound. Build when it is core, or when depending on someone else creates unacceptable exposure. Buy when you need control and speed and the thesis holds. The question that decides it: **what happens if this partner becomes a competitor, is acquired by one, or simply loses interest?** If the answer is existential, do not partner — that is a build or buy decision wearing a cheaper price tag. ## Structure by what each side actually wants Partnerships fail on asymmetry of motivation more than on terms. Before structuring, establish what the partner gets, whether it is material to them, and who inside their organization is accountable for it. A partnership that is strategically important to you and a rounding error to them will not be executed, whatever was signed. Being the small partner is workable — being the small *and uninteresting* partner is not. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/strategic-alliances@sha256:46c91d2a158f9db0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260901.aa45383, 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 Aug 29, 2026 and Sep 1, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260901.aa45383 latest | 2026-09-01 | aa45383 | 3,575 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.635d8e8 | 2026-08-29 | 635d8e8 | 3,311 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fyphn6alknpwbks6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/strategic-alliances GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/46c91d2a158f9db08cea1e3451a96e9fd3fa1f6ae835917ea4a99962dc3f8496
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.