A technical decision the business doesn't understand is a decision the business can't fund, defend, or trust. Gregor Hohpe's architect elevator: the architect rides between the engine room (the code and the trade-offs) and the penthouse (strategy, money, risk) — and the defining skill is translating the technical call into the business argument, up and down. A design you can't justify in cost, value, and risk to the founder is not yet finished, no matter how sound the -ilities.
Make The Economic Case is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the product-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/make-the-economic-case/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when a design choice has to be justified to a founder/non-technical stakeholder, when proposing to spend (or take on) time/money/debt, or when "why does this matter to the business?" — ride the elevator: translate the technical decision into cost, value, and risk in the language of the business.
The Make The Economic Case Claude Code skill is built for product managers, product designers, and cross-functional teams planning, shipping, and measuring product features. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 117,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/make-the-economic-case curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/make-the-economic-case/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/make-the-economic-case/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/make-the-economic-case/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/make-the-economic-case/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\make-the-economic-case\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/make-the-economic-case/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Make The Economic Case is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Product category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{make-the-economic-case-2026,
author = {wastedcode},
title = {Make The Economic Case [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/make-the-economic-case/}
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