Operator Agent Skills

Seven Powers in the AI Era

Source-grounded pack with Run AI Power Audit, Test AI Operating Advantage, and Test AI Scale and Network Power, plus 1 more.

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Choose this pack when the work touches Seven Powers in the AI Era and you need a bounded workflow with explicit inputs, a defined output, and human review gates.

Included workflows

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4 source-grounded skills. Load one workflow at a time.

Run AI Power Audit

Use this workflow when founders or executives must separate AI adoption and near-term impact from durable competitive power, test all Seven Powers, identify decaying fake moats, and choose evidence-bound operating bets.

Output Return an AI power audit with workflowmap, sevenpowertests, impactvsdefensibility, fakemoatdecay, evidenceandconfidence, operatingbets, ownersmetricsandtests, and killorstrengthenconditions.

Test AI Operating Advantage

Use this workflow when a company claims AI-era power from brand and trust, proprietary data or rights, distribution or talent, or an accumulated process of evaluation, review, learning, and recovery.

Output Return an AI operating advantage test with causalclaims, trusteconomics, privilegedresource, processlearningloop, imitabilityanddecay, classification, falsificationtests, and compoundinginvestments.

Test AI Scale and Network Power

Use this workflow when a company claims AI scale economies or network effects and must prove that volume lowers unit cost or participation increases per-user workflow value in a way competitors cannot readily reproduce.

Output Return a scale and network power test with causalloops, uniteconomicsbyvolume, workflowparticipantvalue, customerbehavior, rightsandtrust, competitorreplication, classification, and falsificationtest.

Test Counter-Positioning and Switching

Use this workflow when a company claims incumbents cannot copy its AI business model or customers cannot leave, and must test incumbent self-harm, response paths, valuable operating memory, performance loss, and AI-assisted migration.

Output Return a counter-positioning and switching test with entrantmove, incumbentselfharm, responsepaths, residualadvantage, customerlossmap, migrationcounterfactual, classification, and falsificationtests.

Human review

Keep consequential decisions explicit.

These workflows structure analysis and artifacts; they do not authorize autonomous external, personnel, financial, legal, security, or other high-impact action.

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