Catalog/Opportunity Cost

Opportunity Cost

Make sure to use this skill whenever reviewing a plan that contains only safe projects, diagnosing why the roadmap lacks transformative bets, evaluating whether the team is avoiding ambiguous but high-potential initiatives, rebalancing a portfolio toward higher risk/reward, or asking 'what are we NOT doing?' — even if the request is about 'strategic planning' or 'portfolio review' rather than explicitly about opportunity cost.

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Download .skillInstall instructions

Install

Run the one-liner to fetch and unpack the skill into your Claude Code skills directory:

curl -sL https://skill.broker/skills/shreyas-doshi/opportunity-cost.skill -o /tmp/opportunity-cost.skill && \ unzip -o /tmp/opportunity-cost.skill -d ~/.claude/skills/opportunity-cost/

Manual install

Download the .skill file above, then unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/opportunity-cost/.

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