pestle-analysis
An agent skill by phuryn, from phuryn/pm-skills. Tags: brainstorming, documents, market-analysis, sales, strategy.
What it does
Perform a PESTLE analysis covering Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental factors. Use when assessing the macro environment, doing strategic planning, or evaluating external factors affecting your business.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill pestle-analysisOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills
cp -r pm-skills/pm-product-strategy/skills/pestle-analysis ~/.claude/skills/pestle-analysisSafety box score
Grade A, minimal risk: 0 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-10-16. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.
This skill is a documentation-only PESTLE analysis template: it contains guidance for macro-environment review and strategy framing, but no executable scripts, downloads, or file/network actions. The main consideration is simply that it can produce broad strategic advice, not that it can alter the machine or access data.
| Category | Level | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Code & shell execution | 0 (none) | `SKILL.md` only contains prose guidance and framework steps; there are no scripts, shell commands, or code to run. |
| Network access | 0 (none) | The skill does not fetch remote content or send data anywhere; the only URL is a static "Further Reading" link in the markdown. |
| Filesystem reach | 0 (none) | No files are read, written, or deleted by the skill itself; it is a read-only markdown instruction set. |
| Secrets & credentials | 0 (none) | The skill does not request tokens, passwords, `.env` files, or other credentials. |
| Privilege & persistence | 0 (none) | There is no sudo, installation, service registration, or shell/OS configuration in the skill. |
| Instruction hijack surface | 0 (none) | The markdown gives analysis instructions only and does not tell the agent to ignore rules, hide content, or follow external instructions. |
| Irreversible actions | 0 (none) | It does not perform actions like posting, deploying, buying, deleting, or otherwise acting on the user's behalf. |
| Transparency | 0 (none) | All content is plain, human-readable markdown; there are no binaries, encoded blobs, or generated installers. |
Before installing
- No special safety checks are needed; review `SKILL.md` to confirm the framework and external reference fit your workflow.
- If you want to be cautious, verify that the optional "Further Reading" link is acceptable for your environment, since it points outside the repo.
Rated 2026-10-16 by an automated review of 1 file from the skill's repository.
Source
- Repository
- phuryn/pm-skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- pm-product-strategy/skills/pestle-analysis/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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