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New skills added: - teaching-lesson-plan: structured lesson plans for any subject/audience/setting - seo-content-brief: complete SEO briefs with intent, competitor gaps, and outline - media-pitch: story-first journalist pitches with angle development framework - change-management-plan: stakeholder analysis, comms strategy, adoption metrics - workshop-facilitation-guide: activity instructions, decision protocols, facilitator moves - sales-forecasting-model: pipeline model, scenario analysis, assumption log - tax-planning-checklist: year-end tax planning across income, pension, CGT, reliefs Quality improvements across all 93 existing skills: - Standardised description format: "Verb the thing. Use when X. Produces Y." - Added Required Inputs section to all skills missing it (prompts for missing info) - Added Quality Checks section to all skills missing it (specific, not generic) - Fixed broken multiline YAML descriptions - Removed non-standard frontmatter keys (tool_integration, metadata blocks) README updated to v6.0.0 with 100-skill count, new skill tables, and article series Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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name: strategic-narrative-generator
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description: "Generate the strategic story connecting a product roadmap to company goals in a form non-technical stakeholders can repeat. Use when asked to explain the roadmap, present strategy to leadership or the board, write the why behind the roadmap, create a narrative for all-hands, or make the roadmap tell a story. Produces a themed narrative with executive summary, progression arc, hard-question preparation, and what's-not-on-the-roadmap section."
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# Strategic Narrative Generator Skill
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Turn a prioritised initiative list into a strategic narrative — the story that explains not just what you're building but why, why now, and why this sequence.
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## Required Inputs
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Ask the user for these if not provided:
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- **Prioritised initiative list** (with rough timelines)
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- **Current OKRs or strategic priorities** (1-3)
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- **Audience** (board, leadership team, all-hands, investors)
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- **Competitive or market context** (optional but improves output significantly)
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## Process
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1. Identify 2-3 natural strategic themes from the initiative list
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2. For each theme: articulate the problem, the customer it serves, and the metric it moves
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3. Build the progression narrative: how does Q1 set up Q2? How does H1 set up H2?
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4. Write executive summary in under 100 words (the version someone can repeat)
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5. Anticipate the 3 hardest questions a sceptical board member would ask — draft answers
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6. Identify what's NOT on the roadmap and why
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7. **Validate** — Confirm every initiative maps to a theme. If an initiative is orphaned, either create a theme for it or flag it as a narrative gap.
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## Output Structure
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### Product Strategy Narrative: [Period]
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**The One-Paragraph Context:**
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[Market moment + key challenge + our response — for the CFO, not the engineer]
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**Strategic Theme 1: [Name]**
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- The problem: [customer pain in plain language]
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- Our response: [initiatives in this theme]
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- The metric it moves: [specific and measurable]
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- Why now: [timing rationale]
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**Strategic Theme 2: [Name]**
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[Same structure]
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**The Progression Story:**
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[How each quarter sets up the next — this is the narrative arc]
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**Executive Summary (under 100 words — shareable):**
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[Version someone can quote at a board meeting]
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**Questions to Prepare For:**
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1. [Hard question] → [Prepared answer]
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2. [Hard question] → [Prepared answer]
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3. [Hard question] → [Prepared answer]
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**What's Not on the Roadmap (and Why):**
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[2-3 items — shows strategic discipline, not just prioritisation]
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## Tone
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- Write for a CFO, not an engineer
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- Lead with outcomes, not features
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- Every sentence should answer "so what?"
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- Avoid jargon — if you can't say it plainly, the strategy isn't clear enough yet
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## Quality Checks
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- [ ] Executive summary is under 100 words and can stand alone
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- [ ] Every initiative in the input maps to a strategic theme
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- [ ] Each theme has a specific, measurable metric (not "improve engagement")
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- [ ] Progression story shows causal links between quarters, not just chronological listing
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- [ ] "Not on the roadmap" section includes at least 2 items with clear rationale
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