Agent skill

Strategic Alliances

by cbrock84 in cbrock84/headcount

Structures partnerships that change what the business can do — technology integrations, channel and reseller arrangements, joint ventures, and OEM relationships.

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Install Strategic Alliances

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill strategic-alliances -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount strategic-alliances --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/strategic-alliances .claude/skills/strategic-alliances && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
strategic-alliances
GitHub stars
2k
Token cost
~890 tokens
SKILL.md length
489 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
178
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Structures partnerships that change what the business can do — technology integrations, channel and reseller arrangements, joint ventures, and OEM relationships.

  • SKILL.md covers Partner, build, or buy, Structure by what each side…, Terms that determine whether… and Making it produce, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Strategic Alliances is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Structures partnerships that change what the business can do — technology integrations, channel and reseller arrangements, joint ventures, and OEM relationships. Use this to evaluate or structure a strategic partnership, decide between partnering and building, negotiate commercial terms of an alliance, or diagnose a partnership that is signed but not producing. For audience-borrowing partnerships, use marketing:partnership-marketing.

Its SKILL.md is about 890 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “Use the strategic-alliances skill to structure partnerships that change what the business can do — technology integrations, channel and reseller…”
  • “/strategic-alliances”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Strategic Alliances loads about 890 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 115 tokens; SKILL.md has 489 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~115
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~890

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 489 words, ~890 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/strategic-alliances/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
strategic-alliances
description
Structures partnerships that change what the business can do — technology integrations, channel and reseller arrangements, joint ventures, and OEM relationships. Use this to evaluate or structure a strategic partnership, decide between partnering and building, negotiate commercial terms of an alliance, or diagnose a partnership that is signed but not producing. For audience-borrowing partnerships, use `marketing:partnership-marketing`.

Strategic alliances

Distinct from marketing partnerships. Those borrow an audience; these change what the business can do or where it can sell.

Partner, build, or buy

Partner when the capability is genuinely outside your core, the partner is materially better at it, and the arrangement can be unwound. Build when it is core, or when depending on someone else creates unacceptable exposure. Buy when you need control and speed and the thesis holds.

The question that decides it: what happens if this partner becomes a competitor, is acquired by one, or simply loses interest? If the answer is existential, do not partner — that is a build or buy decision wearing a cheaper price tag.

Structure by what each side actually wants

Partnerships fail on asymmetry of motivation more than on terms. Before structuring, establish what the partner gets, whether it is material to them, and who inside their organization is accountable for it.

A partnership that is strategically important to you and a rounding error to them will not be executed, whatever was signed. Being the small partner is workable — being the small and uninteresting partner is not.

Terms that determine whether it works

  • Exclusivity — expensive, occasionally worth it, and always time-boxed. Perpetual exclusivity given away early is a recurring regret.
  • Economics — who books revenue, on what split, and what happens to it if volume grows tenfold.
  • Roadmap commitments — what each side will build and by when, with a remedy if they do not.
  • Data — what flows where, under what basis, and what happens to it at termination.
  • Customer ownership — who holds the relationship, and who may market to them afterward. Most disputed, most often left vague.
  • Termination and transition — notice, and what continues for customers mid-contract. Negotiate the exit while everyone is friendly, because it will not be negotiable later.
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Making it produce

Signed is not launched. Partnerships need a named owner on each side, a joint plan with dates, and a regular review that either side can bring problems to.

The characteristic failure: a signed agreement, a press release, and no operational plan. Six months later both sides believe the other did not deliver, and neither is wrong.

Enable the partner properly. Their team needs to know what to say and when to bring you in, and they will not learn it from the contract.

Diagnosing a stalled partnership

Almost always one of: no accountable owner on one side, misaligned incentives at the level of the people doing the work, a promised technical dependency that never shipped, or a partner whose strategy moved.

Say it plainly and early. Partnerships die quietly for a year before anyone admits it, and that year is the cost.

Never

  • Sign a partnership without naming what each side is measured on.
  • Announce before the joint work has a named owner on both sides.
  • Let a partnership run past its review date on goodwill.
  • Grant exclusivity without a performance floor that ends it.

© cbrock84, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/strategic-alliances of cbrock84/headcount.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17

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Questions about Strategic Alliances

What does Strategic Alliances do?

Structures partnerships that change what the business can do — technology integrations, channel and reseller arrangements, joint ventures, and OEM relationships. Strategic Alliances is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Structures partnerships that change what the business can do — technology integrations, channel and reseller arrangements, joint ventures, and OEM relationships.

How do I install Strategic Alliances in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill strategic-alliances -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/strategic-alliances in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/strategic-alliances in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Strategic Alliances in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill strategic-alliances -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/strategic-alliances in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/strategic-alliances in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Strategic Alliances in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill strategic-alliances -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/strategic-alliances, .gemini/skills/strategic-alliances, .github/skills/strategic-alliances and .opencode/skills/strategic-alliances in your project.

What does Strategic Alliances need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Strategic Alliances is instructions for the agent only.

Does Strategic Alliances access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Strategic Alliances safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Strategic Alliances use?

Strategic Alliances is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Strategic Alliances use?

About 890 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Strategic Alliances?

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Who maintains Strategic Alliances?

cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,022 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.

Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.