Agent skill

Yao Business Skill

by yaojingang in yaojingang/yao-open-skills

Design, diagnose, and study business models from ideas, product websites, or company names.

MITAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Yao Business Skill

skills CLI
$ npx skills add yaojingang/yao-open-skills --skill yao-business-skill -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install yaojingang/yao-open-skills yao-business-skill --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/yaojingang/yao-open-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/yao-business-skill .claude/skills/yao-business-skill && 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
yao-business-skill
GitHub stars
1.3k
Token cost
~821 tokens
SKILL.md length
355 words
Files
25 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
16
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Design, diagnose, and study business models from ideas, product websites, or company names.

  • Works in 5 steps: Choose the branch: idea_to_model,… → Build a market_environment profile… → Gather evidence by tier and mark what is… → …
  • Asked to create options for a new idea
  • SKILL.md covers Use This Skill For, Do Not Route Here, Workflow and Branch Rules, plus 2 more sections
  • Audit an existing products monetization and competitors

What it does

Yao Business Skill is an agent skill from yaojingang/yao-open-skills. Design, diagnose, and study business models from ideas, product websites, or company names. Use when asked to create options for a new idea, audit an existing product's monetization and competitors, or analyze a mature company's model and AI-era upgrade paths. Adjust for market, buyer, and operating environment, then output JSON plus HTML.

Its SKILL.md is about 820 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 27 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `agents/interface.yaml`, `manifest.json` and `references/chart-playbook.md`).

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering Product strategy. The repository describes itself as: OpenYao public skills collection: reusable AI assets for decision-making, business analysis, tutorials, research evidence gathering, and document generation. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to create options for a new idea
  • Audit an existing products monetization and competitors
  • Analyze a mature companys model and AI-era upgrade paths

Example prompts

  • “s monetization and competitors, or analyze a mature company”
  • “/yao-business-skill”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Choose the branch: idea_to_model, model_diagnosis, or company_case_study.
  2. Build a market_environment profile before recommending pricing, channels, or sales motion.
  3. Gather evidence by tier and mark what is confirmed, estimated, assumed, or unknown.
  4. Analyze the current or proposed model, including AI as cost driver and monetization lever.
  5. Produce branch-appropriate JSON, HTML, and a short narrative summary.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 093996e. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.

    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

Yao Business Skill loads about 821 tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 355 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~821
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4.7k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from yaojingang/yao-open-skills at commit 093996e, republished under its MIT licence (© yaojingang). 355 words, ~821 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/yao-business-skill/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 24 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
yao-business-skill
description
Design, diagnose, and study business models from ideas, product websites, or company names. Use when asked to create options for a new idea, audit an existing product's monetization and competitors, or analyze a mature company's model and AI-era upgrade paths. Adjust for market, buyer, and operating environment, then output JSON plus HTML.

Yao Business Skill

Evidence-based business model analysis. Separate facts, estimates, hypotheses, and recommendations.

Use This Skill For

  • turning a new idea into 3-5 viable business model options
  • diagnosing an existing product, website, or company
  • comparing direct competitors and cross-industry analogs
  • proposing business model upgrades with formulas, risks, and validation
  • studying a mature company to separate reusable from environment-specific patterns

Do Not Route Here

  • generic marketing ideation without business model analysis
  • standalone legal, tax, accounting, or valuation advice
  • pure financial model builds that do not need business model diagnosis
  • gray or illegal monetization design; those belong only in risk recognition and avoidance

Workflow

  1. Choose the branch: idea_to_model, model_diagnosis, or company_case_study.
  2. Build a market_environment profile before recommending pricing, channels, or sales motion.
  3. Gather evidence by tier and mark what is confirmed, estimated, assumed, or unknown.
  4. Analyze the current or proposed model, including AI as cost driver and monetization lever.
  5. Produce branch-appropriate JSON, HTML, and a short narrative summary.

Branch Rules

  • For new ideas, generate 3-5 options and include one lower-friction, one higher-margin, and one higher-barrier path.
  • For existing products, map current monetization, competitors, analogs, upgrade ideas, and environment fit.
  • For mature companies, separate environment advantages from reusable patterns so the reader does not copy context-specific advantages blindly.
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Output Contract

  • Always distinguish fact, estimate, hypothesis, and recommendation.
  • Every revenue line or new monetization path needs formula, low/base/high range, and confidence.
  • When competitor benchmarking applies, target at least 10 direct competitors and 10 cross-industry analogs; if not possible, explain the gap.
  • Include a market_environment_fit section and an AI leverage and AI disruption section.
  • Final artifacts are a concise narrative, a structured JSON payload, and an HTML report.

Reference Map

  • Read references/source-foundation.md first for shared objects, evidence tiers, and confidence logic.
  • Read references/scenario-playbooks.md for the three analysis branches.
  • Read references/market-environment.md before giving region-sensitive advice.
  • Read references/report-contract.md before drafting JSON or HTML output.
  • Read references/chart-playbook.md before building visual analysis modules.
  • Use templates/report.schema.json as the output schema target.
  • Use templates/report-skeleton.html as the HTML report base.
  • Use scripts/render_report.py when turning report JSON into HTML.
  • Read reports/source-synthesis.md only if you need the distilled design rationale from the user's attachments.

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

Files

SKILL.md and 24 other files (scripts, references) in skills/yao-business-skill of yaojingang/yao-open-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/interface.yaml
  • manifest.json
  • references/chart-playbook.md
  • references/market-environment.md
  • references/report-contract.md
  • references/scenario-playbooks.md
  • references/source-foundation.md
  • reports/hubspot-formal-input.json
  • reports/hubspot-formal-report.html
  • reports/hubspot-formal-report.json
  • reports/sample-assembly-input.json
  • reports/sample-assembly-output.html
  • reports/sample-assembly-output.json
  • reports/sample-model-diagnosis.html
  • reports/sample-model-diagnosis.json
  • reports/source-synthesis.md
  • scripts
  • … and 7 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 093996e

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Questions about Yao Business Skill

What does Yao Business Skill do?

Design, diagnose, and study business models from ideas, product websites, or company names. Yao Business Skill is an agent skill from yaojingang/yao-open-skills. Design, diagnose, and study business models from ideas, product websites, or company names.

When should I use Yao Business Skill?

Yao Business Skill fits situations like: asked to create options for a new idea; audit an existing products monetization and competitors; analyze a mature companys model and AI-era upgrade paths.

How do I install Yao Business Skill in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add yaojingang/yao-open-skills --skill yao-business-skill -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/yao-business-skill in yaojingang/yao-open-skills) into .claude/skills/yao-business-skill in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Yao Business Skill in Codex?

Run `npx skills add yaojingang/yao-open-skills --skill yao-business-skill -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/yao-business-skill in yaojingang/yao-open-skills) into .agents/skills/yao-business-skill in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Yao Business Skill 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 yaojingang/yao-open-skills --skill yao-business-skill -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/yao-business-skill, .gemini/skills/yao-business-skill, .github/skills/yao-business-skill and .opencode/skills/yao-business-skill in your project.

What does Yao Business Skill need to run?

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

Does Yao Business Skill 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 Yao Business Skill 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Yao Business Skill use?

Yao Business Skill 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 Yao Business Skill use?

About 821 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.3k 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 3.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Yao Business Skill?

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Who maintains Yao Business Skill?

yaojingang (a GitHub user) maintains it in yaojingang/yao-open-skills, which has 1,323 GitHub stars. The repository holds 16 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 28, 2026.

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