# Evaluate Strategic Option

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-daddia-claude-for-strategy-evaluate-strategic-option`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [daddia](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/daddia)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [daddia](https://github.com/daddia)
- **Source:** https://github.com/daddia/claude-for-strategy/tree/main/corporate-strategy/skills/evaluate-strategic-option

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-daddia-claude-for-strategy-evaluate-strategic-option
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Evaluate Strategic Option

## When to use

Major strategic decisions needing staging, steelmanned case against, downside sizing, and pre-commitment kill criteria — not binary go/no-go.

## What this skill does not do

- **Does not evaluate vague topics** — requires committable decision with scope, scale, timing.
- **Does not soften case against for sponsors** — steelman is mandatory.
- **Does not pick winner when trade-offs unquantifiable** — say so.
- **Does not ship board-final without GATE.**

## Preconditions

| Input | If missing |
|---|---|
| Corporate-strategy + org profiles | `[PROVISIONAL]` balanced posture |
| Precise option statement | Ask once to narrow |

## Provisional mode

`[PROVISIONAL]` on risk posture; structured first pass if downside inputs missing.

## Trust spine

- **Strategic advice vs. support (mandatory):** Trade-offs and triggers; IC/board owns decision.
- Per trust-conventions for sourcing, assumptions, numbers, confidence, GATE.

## Workflow

### Step 1: State option precisely

Reject vague topics; require committable decision.

### Step 2: Staging checklist

If plausible: initial commitment, scale trigger, abandon trigger, learning objective. If not: say why.

### Step 3: Case for (brief)

3–5 bullets; tag unsourced claims.

### Step 4: Case against (steelman — mandatory)

Hardest assumption, cannibalization, timing illusion, integration load, comparable bias, reversibility, sponsor momentum — apply checklist.

### Step 5: Downside sizing + survivability test

Direct loss, opportunity cost, reputation, org strain. Survivable on failure: yes/no/unclear with evidence.

### Step 6: Kill criteria (pre-commitment)

Dated, specific; stage-1 vs full-program if staged.

### Step 7: Recommendation

Proceed staged | proceed in full | do not proceed — with confidence band.

## Output format

```
CONFIDENCE: [...]
LOAD-BEARING ASSUMPTIONS: [...]
OPTION: [precise decision]
CAN THIS BE STAGED: [...]
CASE FOR: [...]
CASE AGAINST (steelman): [...]
DOWNSIDE SIZING: [table]
SURVIVABLE ON FAILURE: [...]
KILL CRITERIA: [...]
RECOMMENDATION: [...]
```

## Worked example

**Input:** Acquire Company X at $Ym by Q3.

**Excerpt:** Staged: $Zm pilot with scale trigger on retention ≥X%; case against surfaces integration load on named function; kill criteria by date if metric below threshold; recommendation proceed staged `[review]`.

## Quality checks before delivering

- [ ] Committable option, not topic
- [ ] Staging checklist applied
- [ ] Steelman case against
- [ ] Survivability answered
- [ ] Kill criteria dated and specific

## Propose profile update

When a stable convention surfaces during this run (thresholds, naming, tone, output format, or recurring corrections), **propose a profile update**: show the exact diff against `~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-strategy/corporate-strategy/CLAUDE.md` (org-wide facts go to `org-profile.md`), ask for confirmation, and write only on yes. Only `/corporate-strategy:practice-setup` auto-applies a full profile write.

## Outputs

Follows plugin `CLAUDE.md` § Outputs. Next: IC memo, `synergy-stress-test`, or `exit-or-double-down`.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [daddia](https://github.com/daddia)
- **Source:** [daddia/claude-for-strategy](https://github.com/daddia/claude-for-strategy)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-daddia-claude-for-strategy-evaluate-strategic-option
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/daddia
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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