Seven Powers
Use when diagnosing whether a business has, can build, or is falsely claiming durable strategic power using Hamilton Helmer's Seven Powers: scale economies, network economies, counter-positioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resource, and process power. Do NOT use for industry-structure analysis alone (use porters-five-forces), integrated strategy-cascade formulation (use playing-to-win), generic prioritization, or surface-level SWOT lists. Covers power as benefit plus barrier, moat-source classification, power progression by company phase, false-positive checks, and strategy implications. Do NOT use for analyze the attractiveness of this industry using entrants, suppliers, buyers, substitutes, and rivalry. Do NOT use for turn this market-entry plan into a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, capabilities, and systems. Do NOT use for rank these roadmap items by impact and effort. Do NOT use for make a SWOT table for this company.
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What this skill does
Seven Powers is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the branding sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/seven-powers/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when diagnosing whether a business has, can build, or is falsely claiming durable strategic power using Hamilton Helmer's Seven Powers: scale economies, network economies, counter-positioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resource, and process power. Do NOT use for industry-structure analysis alone (use porters-five-forces), integrated strategy-cascade formulation (use playing-to-win), generic prioritization, or surface-level SWOT lists.
Who uses this skill
The Seven Powers Claude Code skill is built for growth marketers, product-led growth teams, founders running experiments, and performance marketing teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
How to install
Free
Manual install (2 steps)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/seven-powers
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/seven-powers/SKILL.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/seven-powers/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/seven-powers/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/seven-powers/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\seven-powers\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
Telegram
📱 Install from your phone or desktop Telegram
Open @claudskills_bot on Telegram, tap Open Desktop App, and the desktop app installs this skill for you. Or share the bot link with a colleague — they get the same one-tap install. Learn more →
Pro
One-click install via the desktop app
The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I install the Seven Powers Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy
SKILL.md from the source repository to
~/.claude/skills/seven-powers/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at
claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Seven Powers skill do?
Use when diagnosing whether a business has, can build, or is falsely claiming durable strategic power using Hamilton Helmer's Seven Powers: scale economies, network economies, counter-positioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resource, and process power. Do NOT use for industry-structure analysis alone (use porters-five-forces), integrated strategy-cascade formulation (use playing-to-win), generic prioritization, or surface-level SWOT lists. Covers power as benefit plus barrier, moat-source classification, power progression by company phase, false-positive checks, and strategy implications. Do NOT use for analyze the attractiveness of this industry using entrants, suppliers, buyers, substitutes, and rivalry. Do NOT use for turn this market-entry plan into a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, capabilities, and systems. Do NOT use for rank these roadmap items by impact and effort. Do NOT use for make a SWOT table for this company.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Seven Powers skill?
Use Seven Powers when your Claude Code task falls under the Growth & Marketing category — specifically in the branding area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Seven Powers" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at
/category/growth/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Seven Powers skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a
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. Seven Powers is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Growth & Marketing category. Learn more at
/learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.
Attribution & license
Cite this skill
If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
APA
jacob-balslev. (2026). Seven Powers [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/seven-powers/
BibTeX
@misc{seven-powers-2026,
author = {jacob-balslev},
title = {Seven Powers [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/seven-powers/}
}
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Grade A · scanned 2026-09-28 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›
- ✓ Prompt injection
- ✓ Data exfiltration
- ✓ Supply chain
- ✓ Reverse shell
- ✓ Credentials
- ✓ Execution
- ✓ Filesystem
- ✓ Persistence
- ✓ Obfuscation
- ✓ Network
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