best-in-world-strategy

Name: best-in-world-strategy
Author: stevembarclay

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How to install best-in-world-strategy?

stevembarclay/pencilplaybook/best-in-world-strategy

$npx -y skills add stevembarclay/pencilplaybook --skill best-in-world-strategy

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Excellence-first strategic decision support. This skill should be used when users need to choose between options, pressure-test a plan, evaluate risk, or make a specific decision — across security, product, growth, operations, org design, and finance. Use when there is a decision

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SKILL.md

1	# Best-In-World Strategy
2
3	Set an excellence baseline first. Adapt intentionally second.
4
5	## Modes
6
7	Use `Speed` mode by default. Reserve `Full` mode for explicitly high-stakes or complex decisions.
8
9	- `Speed` (default): frame the decision → world-class baseline → recommendation → downside controls. Rigorous but concise. No options scoring, no red-team unless the stakes clearly warrant it.
10	- `Full` (when user asks for comprehensive analysis, or the decision is clearly high-stakes / irreversible): complete 9-step workflow with constraint ledger, options scoring, red-team, and learning loop.
11	- `Evidence-Backed` modifier (optional): add external citations to either mode when user explicitly asks.
12
13	Switch to `Risk-Acceptance Override` when user states willingness to accept risk and move quickly — drops options scoring, keeps assumptions + failure modes + downside controls.
14
15	## Workflow
16
17	1. Frame the decision.
18	- Write one decision sentence.
19	- Capture decision type: `architecture`, `security/risk`, `product`, `go-to-market`, `operations`, `org/talent`, `capital/finance`.
20	- Capture objective, owner, time horizon, and success metric.
21
22	2. Build a constraint ledger.
23	- Separate `hard constraints` from `soft constraints`.
24	- Record budget, timeline, legal, staffing, and political constraints.
25
26	3. Set the best-in-world baseline.
27	- Identify 2-4 expert archetypes relevant to the decision.
28	- For each archetype, output:
29	- `principle`
30	- `expected benefit`
31	- `cost/complexity`
32	- `confidence`
33	- Mark each item as `non-negotiable` or `adaptable`.
34
35	4. Apply first principles.
36	- Separate `facts`, `assumptions`, and `conventions`.
37	- State must-be-true conditions.
38	- Isolate the smallest causal drivers.
39
40	5. Run red-team pressure testing.
41	- Ask hard skeptical questions.
42	- Surface first-order and second-order failure modes.
43	- Define one disconfirming test.
44
45	6. Generate options.
46	- Option A: world-class ideal.
47	- Option B: pragmatic high-confidence.
48	- Option C: minimum viable risk-controlled.
49
50	7. Score options.
51	- Score each option 1-5 on:
52	- `impact`
53	- `risk`
54	- `cost`
55	- `speed`
56	- `reversibility`
57	- `learning value`
58	- Use default weights unless user provides custom weights:
59	- `impact 30%`
60	- `risk 20%`
61	- `cost 15%`
62	- `speed 15%`
63	- `reversibility 10%`
64	- `learning value 10%`
65
66	8. Recommend and sequence.
67	- Recommend one option and explain the tradeoffs.
68	- Sequence as `now`, `next`, `later`.
69	- Mark major decisions as `two-way door` or `one-way door`.
70	- Define downside controls:
71	- max acceptable loss
72	- kill criteria
73	- revisit trigger/date
74	- Include 2-3 no-regret moves.
75
76	9. Define learning loop.
77	- Define what to measure.
78	- Define what would change the current strategy.
79
80	## Risk-Acceptance Override
81
82	When user accepts risk explicitly:
83
84	1. Keep rigor floor.
85	2. Switch to speed output.
86	3. Include this line exactly:
87	`Decision owner accepts risk and prefers speed over additional validation at this stage.`
88	4. Keep mandatory safeguards:
89	- assumptions list
90	- confidence tags (`high`, `medium`, `low`)
91	- top failure modes
92	- one disconfirming test
93	- max acceptable loss
94	- kill criteria
95	- revisit trigger/date
96
97	## Output Contract (Speed — default)
98
99	```markdown
100	## Decision
101	[One sentence]
102
103	## What the Best in the World Would Do
104	[2–3 bullets. Named practitioners or archetypes. Specific practices, not principles.]
105
106	## Recommendation
107	[One option. Why this one. What's intentionally deferred.]
108
109	## Key Assumptions
110	[2–3 items with confidence tags: high / medium / low]
111
112	## Downside Controls
113	- Max acceptable loss:
114	- Kill criteria:
115	- Revisit trigger/date:
116	```
117
118	## Output Contract (Full)
119
120	```markdown
121	## Decision
122
123	## Mode
124	- Selected mode:
125	- Risk-Acceptance Override:
126
127	## Decision Type
128
129	## Objective and Success Metric
130	- Objective:
131	- Success metric:
132	- Time horizon:
133	- Owner:
134
135	## Constraint Ledger
136	- Hard constraints:
137	- Soft constraints:
138
139	## What the Best in the World Would Say
140	- Expert archetype 1:
141	- Principle:
142	- Expected benefit:
143	- Cost/complexity:
144	- Confidence:
145	- Expert archetype 2:
146	- Principle:
147	- Expected benefit:
148	- Cost/complexity:
149	- Confidence:
150	- Non-negotiables:
151	- Adaptable elements:
152
153	## First-Principles Breakdown
154	- Facts:
155	- Assumptions:
156	- Conventions:
157	- Must-be-true conditions:
158	- Causal drivers:
159
160	## Red-Team Questions and Failure Modes
161	- Hard questions:
162	- First-order failures:
163	- Second-order failures:
164	- Disconfirming test:
165
166	## Strategic Options
167	- Option A (world-class ideal):
168	- Option B (pragmatic high-confidenc

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How to install best-in-world-strategy?

stevembarclay/pencilplaybook/best-in-world-strategy

$npx -y skills add stevembarclay/pencilplaybook --skill best-in-world-strategy

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# Best-In-World Strategy
2
3	Set an excellence baseline first. Adapt intentionally second.
4
5	## Modes
6
7	Use `Speed` mode by default. Reserve `Full` mode for explicitly high-stakes or complex decisions.
8
9	- `Speed` (default): frame the decision → world-class baseline → recommendation → downside controls. Rigorous but concise. No options scoring, no red-team unless the stakes clearly warrant it.
10	- `Full` (when user asks for comprehensive analysis, or the decision is clearly high-stakes / irreversible): complete 9-step workflow with constraint ledger, options scoring, red-team, and learning loop.
11	- `Evidence-Backed` modifier (optional): add external citations to either mode when user explicitly asks.
12
13	Switch to `Risk-Acceptance Override` when user states willingness to accept risk and move quickly — drops options scoring, keeps assumptions + failure modes + downside controls.
14
15	## Workflow
16
17	1. Frame the decision.
18	- Write one decision sentence.
19	- Capture decision type: `architecture`, `security/risk`, `product`, `go-to-market`, `operations`, `org/talent`, `capital/finance`.
20	- Capture objective, owner, time horizon, and success metric.
21
22	2. Build a constraint ledger.
23	- Separate `hard constraints` from `soft constraints`.
24	- Record budget, timeline, legal, staffing, and political constraints.
25
26	3. Set the best-in-world baseline.
27	- Identify 2-4 expert archetypes relevant to the decision.
28	- For each archetype, output:
29	- `principle`
30	- `expected benefit`
31	- `cost/complexity`
32	- `confidence`
33	- Mark each item as `non-negotiable` or `adaptable`.
34
35	4. Apply first principles.
36	- Separate `facts`, `assumptions`, and `conventions`.
37	- State must-be-true conditions.
38	- Isolate the smallest causal drivers.
39
40	5. Run red-team pressure testing.
41	- Ask hard skeptical questions.
42	- Surface first-order and second-order failure modes.
43	- Define one disconfirming test.
44
45	6. Generate options.
46	- Option A: world-class ideal.
47	- Option B: pragmatic high-confidence.
48	- Option C: minimum viable risk-controlled.
49
50	7. Score options.
51	- Score each option 1-5 on:
52	- `impact`
53	- `risk`
54	- `cost`
55	- `speed`
56	- `reversibility`
57	- `learning value`
58	- Use default weights unless user provides custom weights:
59	- `impact 30%`
60	- `risk 20%`
61	- `cost 15%`
62	- `speed 15%`
63	- `reversibility 10%`
64	- `learning value 10%`
65
66	8. Recommend and sequence.
67	- Recommend one option and explain the tradeoffs.
68	- Sequence as `now`, `next`, `later`.
69	- Mark major decisions as `two-way door` or `one-way door`.
70	- Define downside controls:
71	- max acceptable loss
72	- kill criteria
73	- revisit trigger/date
74	- Include 2-3 no-regret moves.
75
76	9. Define learning loop.
77	- Define what to measure.
78	- Define what would change the current strategy.
79
80	## Risk-Acceptance Override
81
82	When user accepts risk explicitly:
83
84	1. Keep rigor floor.
85	2. Switch to speed output.
86	3. Include this line exactly:
87	`Decision owner accepts risk and prefers speed over additional validation at this stage.`
88	4. Keep mandatory safeguards:
89	- assumptions list
90	- confidence tags (`high`, `medium`, `low`)
91	- top failure modes
92	- one disconfirming test
93	- max acceptable loss
94	- kill criteria
95	- revisit trigger/date
96
97	## Output Contract (Speed — default)
98
99	```markdown
100	## Decision
101	[One sentence]
102
103	## What the Best in the World Would Do
104	[2–3 bullets. Named practitioners or archetypes. Specific practices, not principles.]
105
106	## Recommendation
107	[One option. Why this one. What's intentionally deferred.]
108
109	## Key Assumptions
110	[2–3 items with confidence tags: high / medium / low]
111
112	## Downside Controls
113	- Max acceptable loss:
114	- Kill criteria:
115	- Revisit trigger/date:
116	```
117
118	## Output Contract (Full)
119
120	```markdown
121	## Decision
122
123	## Mode
124	- Selected mode:
125	- Risk-Acceptance Override:
126
127	## Decision Type
128
129	## Objective and Success Metric
130	- Objective:
131	- Success metric:
132	- Time horizon:
133	- Owner:
134
135	## Constraint Ledger
136	- Hard constraints:
137	- Soft constraints:
138
139	## What the Best in the World Would Say
140	- Expert archetype 1:
141	- Principle:
142	- Expected benefit:
143	- Cost/complexity:
144	- Confidence:
145	- Expert archetype 2:
146	- Principle:
147	- Expected benefit:
148	- Cost/complexity:
149	- Confidence:
150	- Non-negotiables:
151	- Adaptable elements:
152
153	## First-Principles Breakdown
154	- Facts:
155	- Assumptions:
156	- Conventions:
157	- Must-be-true conditions:
158	- Causal drivers:
159
160	## Red-Team Questions and Failure Modes
161	- Hard questions:
162	- First-order failures:
163	- Second-order failures:
164	- Disconfirming test:
165
166	## Strategic Options
167	- Option A (world-class ideal):
168	- Option B (pragmatic high-confidenc

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