Skhema Skills

Agent skills for the practice of strategy. Seven parent skills, each a practice verb an experienced operator would use — installable into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, and any agent platform that reads the standard SKILL.md format.

Strategy here is not an annual document. It's an iterative, composable practice: small typed judgments, assembled, checked, attacked, and communicated. These skills transfer that practice — the way a marketing skills library transfers marketing capability — to anyone who has to produce or steward strategy: founders, GMs, senior managers, operators.

The seven skills

| Skill | Use when | | --- | --- | | skhema-frame | You can't articulate the thing yet — a worry, ambition, or mandate needs to become a workable strategic statement (challenge, scope, policy, outcome, or decision) | | skhema-compose | The question is too big, or the notes don't add up to a strategy — decompose into typed judgments and assemble them | | skhema-calibrate | A strategy exists and needs a self-check: contradictions, claims resting on nothing, ambiguous language, stale judgments | | skhema-pressure-test | The strategy needs to survive contact with reality — the adversary's chair: full grill, single-decision grill, pre-mortem | | skhema-communicate | The strategy has to move — board update, team brief, one-page decision brief, adapted per audience | | skhema-operate | You're working in the Skhema environment: CLI, Public API, MCP, elements, validation | | skhema-setup | One-time onboarding of a runtime into the Skhema environment |

Each skill is a router: a compact SKILL.md that owns the theme, with the playbooks in references/ loaded on demand.

The first five are fully standalone — no account, no API, no product. Each ends with an optional "Sharpen with Skhema" step showing how the same move gains typed vocabulary and validation in the Skhema environment. The method vocabulary itself is open source: @skhema/method (MIT).

Install

Via any skills installer that reads public GitHub repos:

npx skills add skhema/skills

Or the verified path — the Skhema CLI bundles these skills, checksummed and versioned per release:

npm i -g @skhema/cli
skhema skills install

Stability

Skill names are stable. references/ playbooks evolve; the skhema- prefix is permanent (it's how you tell Skhema content apart in a crowded skills directory). This repo is a read-only snapshot mirror of our canonical source — issues and feedback are welcome here; changes land via our release process.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Use them, fork them, bring them into your own practice.

Using the npm package (@skhema/skills)

This package is the machine-consumable distribution of the public skills snapshot — the same content that is browsable at github.com/skhema/skills.

npm install @skhema/skills

| Import | Contents | | --- | --- | | @skhema/skills | the skills snapshot: registry (the public skill index), skillsDir, and skillDir(name) path helpers | | @skhema/skills/mcp | a generated bundle for MCP servers: six skills with their reference playbooks inlined, plus a manifest of per-file sha256 hashes, the registry version, and the source commit for integrity verification |

Every file ships exactly as exported from the canonical source; the bundle's manifest lets a consumer verify at build time that the embedded content is the intended snapshot.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.