strategy-critic skillA
strategy-critic is agent-read markdown (skill) from rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os: Stress-test a product strategy with two explicit checks, Rumelt's kernel test and the Playing-to-Win "what would have to be true" test, plus a durability check against the seven powers. Use when a strategy draft needs review before signature, when leadership suspects it is a goals slide, when the roadmap contains bets the strategy cannot explain, or before annual planning copies last year's strategy forward. Takes the strategy document and its evidence links; returns a verdict per check, the con.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Strategy Critic: strategy or slogan, decided in writing Most strategy documents are goals with adjectives: "be the leading platform", "delight customers", "win the mid-market". They exclude nothing, so they guide nothing, and the roadmap gets decided by whoever argued loudest. This skill runs two named tests that a goals slide cannot pass, and returns the document with its gaps marked rather than its prose polished. ## Files this skill drives - [../../templates/planning/product-strategy.md](../../templates/planning/product-strategy.md), where the passed strategy lands section by section - The worksheets for checks 1, 2, and 3, in order: [../../frameworks/strategy/strategy-kernel.md](../../frameworks/strategy/strategy-kernel.md), [../../frameworks/strategy/playing-to-win.md](../../frameworks/strategy/playing-to-win.md), [../../frameworks/strategy/seven-powers-audit.md](../../frameworks/strategy/seven-powers-audit.md) - Reads [../../templates/planning/roadmap.md](../../templates/planning/roadmap.md) for the bets the strategy must explain; sends unevidenced conditions to [../../templates/execution/risk-register.md](../../templates/execution/risk-register.md) …
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How to install
mdr add rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os/strategy-critic@git:20260921.2bf6847mdr add rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os/strategy-critic@sha256:b286fc7841a05ed6Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_unwanb5lheluhgql)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260921.2bf6847 latest | 2026-09-21 | 2bf6847 | 10,027 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.72235e0 | 2026-09-19 | 72235e0 | 9,976 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.03fdd58 | 2026-09-12 | 03fdd58 | 8,254 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.f5259ba | 2026-09-11 | f5259ba | 8,192 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.fa79c16 | 2026-09-03 | fa79c16 | 7,999 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 (10027 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
rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_unwanb5lheluhgql GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os/strategy-critic GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b286fc7841a05ed636296dc9bc75f0cd6450be7e67234ef950b18e6524998b46
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