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Prepare for a specific contest — a competitive deal, a negotiation, a market entry, a turf fight — using the actual planning framework from Sun Tzu's Art of War: the five factors, the calculations before battle, and winning without fighting. Use when facing a competitor head-to-head, preparing a bake-off or RFP, entering a rival's market, or picking which fight to have. Produces a strategy brief with a fight/no-fight verdict.

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# Sun Tzu Strategy Brief Skill

The Art of War's core insight is not aggression — it is that the outcome is mostly
decided **before** the engagement, in the counting-house: the winning general "makes
many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought" (Ch. I, Giles translation).
This skill runs those calculations for a modern contest and — the part most strategy
decks skip — is willing to conclude *don't fight this one*.

## What This Skill Produces

- A **five-factor assessment** of you vs. the opponent for this specific contest
- The **terrain read**: what kind of ground this fight is on, and who it favours
- A **win-without-fighting scan**: the outcomes that get what you want with no
  head-to-head at all
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