ma-playbook SKILL.md skillA

ma-playbook from alirezarezvani/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add alirezarezvani/claude-skills/ma-playbook@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
alirezarezvani/claude-skills
Path
c-level-advisor/skills/ma-playbook/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Nov 3, 2026
First version recorded
May 2, 2026
Size
5,992 bytes
Repository stars
29,490
License
MIT

Buy a company or sell yours: diligence, valuation, terms, integration. Use whenever M&A or an exit comes up.

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

# M&A Playbook

Frameworks for both sides of M&A: acquiring companies and being acquired.

## Keywords
M&A, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, acquisition, acqui-hire, integration, deal structure, valuation, LOI, term sheet, earnout

## Quick Start

**Acquiring:** Start with strategic rationale → target screening → due diligence → valuation → negotiation → integration.

**Being Acquired:** Start with readiness assessment → data room prep → advisor selection → negotiation → transition.

## When You're Acquiring

### Strategic Rationale (answer before anything else)
- **Buy vs Build:** Can you build this faster/cheaper? If yes, don't acquire.
- **Acqui-hire vs Product vs Market:** What are you really buying? Talent? Technology? Customers?
- **Integration complexity:** How hard is it to merge this into your company?

### Due Diligence Checklist
| Domain | Key Questions | Red Flags |
|--------|--------------|-----------|
| Financial | Revenue quality, customer concentration, burn rate | >30% revenue from 1 customer |
| Technical | Code quality, tech debt, architecture fit | Monolith with no tests |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add alirezarezvani/claude-skills/ma-playbook@sha256:8a3b3fb1fbe87000

The 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between May 2, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 62 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-11-03 6278f73 5,992 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-30 b078bb8 5,994 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-06-11 aecfb8e 6,121 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-05-02 1851c8f 4,058 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5992 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

GitHub

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 29,490 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zu7baud4ldna5fsx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alirezarezvani/claude-skills/ma-playbook
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8a3b3fb1fbe87000aaec4fe78e3a923cb5df22b74f1472354aa1e41009ad1575

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.

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