Agent skill

Position

by menkesu in menkesu/awesome-pm-skills

Builds a positioning canvas (competitive alternatives, differentiated value, best-fit customer, category) plus a strategic narrative and sales-pitch storyboard, and grades existing positioning or…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install Position

skills CLI
$ npx skills add menkesu/awesome-pm-skills --skill position -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install menkesu/awesome-pm-skills position --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/menkesu/awesome-pm-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/position .claude/skills/position && 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
position
GitHub stars
429
Token cost
~3.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,140 words
Files
4 (incl. references, assets)
Skills in repo
25
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Builds a positioning canvas (competitive alternatives, differentiated value, best-fit customer, category) plus a strategic narrative and sales-pitch storyboard, and grades existing positioning or…

  • Works in 3 steps: Diagnose (ask before answering) → Pick the play → Run it
  • How do we describe our product
  • SKILL.md covers When to use, Step 1 — Diagnose (ask before…, Step 2 — Pick the play and Step 3 — Run it, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Position is an agent skill from menkesu/awesome-pm-skills. Builds a positioning canvas (competitive alternatives, differentiated value, best-fit customer, category) plus a strategic narrative and sales-pitch storyboard, and grades existing positioning or messaging. Use for 'positioning', 'how do we describe our product', 'messaging', 'our pitch isn't landing', 'category', 'differentiation', 'one-liner', 'value prop', 'old game new game'. Draws on 43 Lenny's Podcast guests incl. April Dunford, Andy Raskin and Arielle Jackson.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files and assets (for example `references/frameworks.md` and `references/quotes.md`).

It sits in Media & Creative, covering Positioning and messaging, Podcasting and Comics and storyboards. The repository describes itself as: Product management workflows grounded in Lenny's Podcast, for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

When your agent uses it

  • How do we describe our product
  • Our pitch isnt landing
  • Differentiation
  • Old game new game

Example prompts

  • “positioning”
  • “how do we describe our product”
  • “messaging”
  • “/position”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Diagnose (ask before answering)
  2. Pick the play
  3. Run it

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c1b6e2d. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Position loads about 3.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~9.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 120 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,140 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~120
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.9k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~9.1k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,140 words (~3,931 tokens).

“Turn a fuzzy product description into a defensible positioning canvas and a pitch narrative your whole team can tell the same way. Built from 138 insights from 43 Lenny's Podcast guests. Lead team: April Dunford, Andy Raskin, Arielle Jackson.”

— opening of SKILL.md by menkesu, Custom licence
name
position

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references, assets) in skills/position of menkesu/awesome-pm-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/card.png
  • references/frameworks.md
  • references/quotes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c1b6e2d

Compare with similar skills

Position next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Render Value Propgooseworks-ai/goose-skills1.2k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Youtube Strategyericrisco/rsc-harness167—~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Podcast Transcript FetcherVarnan-Tech/opendirectory6741 repos~1.9kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT

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Questions about Position

What does Position do?

Builds a positioning canvas (competitive alternatives, differentiated value, best-fit customer, category) plus a strategic narrative and sales-pitch storyboard, and grades existing positioning or…. Position is an agent skill from menkesu/awesome-pm-skills. Builds a positioning canvas (competitive alternatives, differentiated value, best-fit customer, category) plus a strategic narrative and sales-pitch storyboard, and grades existing positioning or messaging.

When should I use Position?

Position fits situations like: how do we describe our product; our pitch isnt landing; differentiation; old game new game.

How do I install Position in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add menkesu/awesome-pm-skills --skill position -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/position in menkesu/awesome-pm-skills) into .claude/skills/position in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Position in Codex?

Run `npx skills add menkesu/awesome-pm-skills --skill position -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/position in menkesu/awesome-pm-skills) into .agents/skills/position in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Position 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 menkesu/awesome-pm-skills --skill position -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/position, .gemini/skills/position, .github/skills/position and .opencode/skills/position in your project.

What does Position need to run?

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

Does Position 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 Position 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 Position use?

Position has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Position use?

About 3.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 16k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 5.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Position?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Position: Video Storyboard (st0012/cctop, 154 stars), Event Signals (gooseworks-ai/goose-skills, 1.2k stars), Render Value Prop (gooseworks-ai/goose-skills, 1.2k stars) and Youtube Strategy (ericrisco/rsc-harness, 167 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Position?

menkesu (a GitHub user) maintains it in menkesu/awesome-pm-skills, which has 429 GitHub stars. The repository holds 25 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: menkesu/awesome-pm-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.