first-mover-advantage SKILL.md skillA
first-mover-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/first-mover-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
first-mover-advantage/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 10,404 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: user asks 'should we move first or wait?', 'is it too late to enter this market?', 'how long can they hold their lead?', 'what makes the first mover hard to beat here?', or needs to assess how durable a market leader's position is or map where a pioneer's advantages are weakest. Do NOT activate when: no one has entered the market yet and the question is whether the market exists at all; or when the decision is primarily about execution quality rather than entry timing. More…
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
# First-Mover Advantage ## Overview Lieberman and Montgomery's 1988 landmark paper established both the mechanisms of first-mover advantage and, with equal rigor, the mechanisms of first-mover *disadvantage* that make late entry rational and sometimes superior. The three advantage sources are: (1) technological leadership, (2) preemption of scarce assets, and (3) buyer switching costs. The three disadvantage mechanisms are: free-rider problem, resolution of market/technology uncertainty, and incumbent inertia. First-mover advantage is not a fact to assert — it is a structural condition to diagnose. Compose with: [switching-costs](../switching-costs/SKILL.md) · [network-effects](../network-effects/SKILL.md) · [blue-ocean-strategy](../blue-ocean-strategy/SKILL.md) · [disruptive-innovation](../disruptive-innovation/SKILL.md). ## When to Use Apply when: deciding to enter now or wait · assessing how defensible a market leader's position is · a late entrant maps where the pioneer is weakest · a first mover audits which accumulated advantages are durable · gauging whether an AI-native pioneer's lead survives fast-followers, AI capex escalation, or accelerating AI adoption. …
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How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/first-mover-advantage@sha256:e0112c3dd2520756The 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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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 | 10,404 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 10,404 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 10,404 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.2ed857e | 2026-07-17 | 2ed857e | 10,404 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.fac12bf | 2026-07-16 | fac12bf | 10,404 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qt7ohidcvqdesmgs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/first-mover-advantage GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e0112c3dd2520756cc7e896936df69830d48817d2e4c0f68cf75b5036e2f2968
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