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Seven Powers

Category: Growth & Marketing  ·  Sub-category: branding  ·  Last updated:
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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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About this skill (catalog notes)

Seven Powers includes pricing or quota commentary; at least one code block. At roughly 2,728 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.

Source
www.npmjs.com/package/@skill-graph/cli
Original author
jacob-balslev
Indexed lastmod
Catalog position
Growth & Marketing · branding
Indexed related skills
10

How Seven Powers fits the catalog

Seven Powers sits in the Growth & Marketing category under the branding sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

Is Seven Powers safe to install?

A free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 found no risk patterns in Seven Powers’s SKILL.md — no data-exfiltration, prompt-injection, or unexpected-execution signatures. The full security scan is below.

Installing & verifying

Installing Seven Powers writes its SKILL.md to ~/.claude/skills/seven-powers/SKILL.md; Claude Code discovers it automatically on the next session — no restart flag needed. It declares no allowed-tools restriction, so it inherits your session’s existing tool access rather than narrowing it. To confirm it loaded, ask Claude to list its available skills — seven-powers should appear by name.

What Seven Powers needs to run

External services
The SKILL.md references pricing, quota, or rate limits — it likely calls a paid or rate-limited API. Check the source before wiring it into unattended automation.
Worked code
4 copy-paste code blocks in the body.
Depth
~2,728 words, substantial — top of the catalog distribution.

When to reach for it

There are 10 related skills in Growth & Marketing — a two-minute scan of the alternatives usually confirms whether Seven Powers is the right pick.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

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 184,000+ 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.

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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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