Strategy

What This Skill Does

The Strategy skill empowers OpenClaw to function as a high-level strategic consultant. It shifts the AI from simply generating text to performing rigorous, constraint-aware strategic planning. The skill enforces a discipline of 'Diagnosis Before Prescription,' ensuring that the agent does not offer generic advice but instead analyzes your specific environment, risks, and trade-offs. By leveraging internal playbooks and a rigorous memory-based context system, the Strategy skill helps you build, refine, and stress-test business plans, growth strategies, or decision-making frameworks. It actively combats common cognitive biases and requires you to define 'kill criteria' for every project, ensuring that your initiatives remain grounded in reality.

Installation

To install this skill, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/strategy

Use Cases

• Product Development: Identifying which features to build versus cut by using frameworks like RICE or Playing to Win.
• Competitive Strategy: Analyzing market entry or response plans against specific competitors.
• Operational Troubleshooting: Reframing business growth bottlenecks by identifying root causes versus symptoms.
• Career Planning: Evaluating professional pivots by weighing constraints, risk profiles, and long-term success metrics.

Example Prompts

1. "I am struggling to choose between two marketing channels for our new B2B SaaS. Can we use the Playing to Win framework to evaluate the trade-offs given our $5,000 monthly budget?"
2. "We want to expand into a new region. Please map out a 3-scenario model (Best, Base, Worst case) and include the 'kill criteria' that would force us to pivot."
3. "I feel like we are falling into the sunk cost fallacy with our current feature roadmap. Can you help me audit our current strategy using the biases.md guidelines?"

Tips & Limitations

• Be Specific with Constraints: The model is only as good as the data you provide. If you say you have 'limited resources,' the output will be vague. Provide actual numbers (e.g., '3 engineers, $10k budget') to get precise, actionable advice.
• Respect the Framing: If the agent challenges your question, take it seriously. The Strategy skill is programmed to identify if you are asking the wrong question entirely.
• Maintain the Memory File: Regularly update ~/strategy/memory.md to ensure the agent understands your ongoing constraints and preferences across different sessions.