competitive-moat SKILL.md skillA
competitive-moat from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/competitive-moat@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/competitive-moat/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 7,677 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Identifies which of the seven structural moats a business actually has, pressure-tests each claim against funded copycats and incumbent pivots, and delivers a moat scorecard with one moat to invest in deliberately. Use when someone asks "what's our moat", "is our product defensible", "a well-funded competitor just launched - what protects us", "investors keep asking about defensibility", or "which moat should we build first". Do NOT use for tracking what competitors are shipping and saying -…
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What the file says
# Competitive Moat Analysis A moat is a structural reason an advantage compounds rather than erodes. Most "moats" founders cite - features, a head start, proprietary data - are things a funded competitor copies in a quarter, and the costly mistake is building a fundraise or a strategy on one of them. This skill separates real moats from wishful thinking and names the one moat worth building deliberately. ## Operating procedure Run taxonomy before testing, and testing before measurement - you cannot stress-test a moat you have not precisely named, and you should not bother measuring one that fails the adversary test. ### Step 1: Gather inputs 1. The claimed advantages - everything the founder or team believes protects them, verbatim. 2. Business model and stage - who pays, how much, how customers onboard and leave. 3. Competitive set - the funded startups and the incumbents, with rough war chests. 4. Retention data if available - gross retention by cohort age; label estimates as guesses. 5. Pricing power evidence - has a price increase ever stuck without churn spiking? ### Step 2: Map each claim to the seven real moats …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/competitive-moat@sha256:18e0234f86103069The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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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The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 7,677 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 7,639 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 7,691 B | A | view |
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oxjx3hbp2tnphyc5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/competitive-moat GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/18e0234f86103069bd7bc1abb965755856cd6c39961327e671a2e7651802a434
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