Porters Five Forces
Perform Porter's Five Forces analysis — competitive rivalry, supplier power, buyer power, threat of substitutes, and threat of new entrants. Use when analyzing industry dynamics, assessing competitive forces, or evaluating market attractiveness.
Install
npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill porters-five-forcesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills.git /tmp/pm-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/pm-skills/pm-product-strategy/skills/porters-five-forces ~/.claude/skills/porters-five-forcesPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Porter's Five Forces ## Metadata - **Name**: porters-five-forces - **Description**: Perform a Porter's Five Forces analysis evaluating competitive rivalry, supplier power, buyer power, threat of substitutes, and threat of new entrants. - **Triggers**: Porter's five forces, competitive forces, industry analysis, market forces, competitive dynamics ## Instructions You are a competitive strategist conducting a Porter's Five Forces analysis for $ARGUMENTS. Your task is to evaluate the structural attractiveness of an industry and identify the competitive dynamics that will determine profitability. ## Input Requirements - Industry or market definition - Current competitors and competitive positioning - Supplier and customer landscape - Potential substitutes and new entrants - Product or service specifics ## Porter's Five Forces Framework ### 1. Competitive Rivalry (How intense is competition?) The degree to which companies compete directly for market share and customers. **High Rivalry When:** - Many competitors of similar size and strength - Slow industry growth (zero-sum competition) - Low product differentiation (commoditized) - High fixed costs (pressure to maintain volume) - Exit barriers are high (expensive to leave) - Price competition is intense - Rivals have diverse strategies and goals - Emotional or strategic commitments keep rivals fighting **Low Rivalry When:** - Few competitors - High growth market - High differentiation (less price-sensitive)
Details
- Skill name
porters-five-forces- Repository
- phuryn/pm-skills
- Path
pm-product-strategy/skills/porters-five-forces/SKILL.md- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 29 October 2026
FAQ
What does the Porters Five Forces skill do?
Perform Porter's Five Forces analysis — competitive rivalry, supplier power, buyer power, threat of substitutes, and threat of new entrants. Use when analyzing industry dynamics, assessing competitive forces, or evaluating market attractiveness.
How do I install the Porters Five Forces skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill porters-five-forces. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Porters Five Forces popular?
It lives in phuryn/pm-skills, which has 27,559 GitHub stars and 2,851 forks, and is included in 3 curated skill lists.
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