pivot-cataloglisted
Install: claude install-skill karozi/awesome-product-management-skills
# Pivot Catalog
A pivot without a name is a drift. This skill matches the evidence that forced the
decision to one of Ries's ten pivot types, then drafts the new hypothesis, what
learning survives the change, and the first cheap test of the new direction. Run it
the moment pivot-or-persevere returns PIVOT.
## The Rule
A pivot changes the strategy hypothesis while preserving everything validated so far.
If nothing validated survives, it is a new company, not a pivot. If the hypothesis does
not change, it is a roadmap, not a pivot. Both findings get reported.
## Modes
### Diagnose mode (default — user describes symptoms or a decision to change direction)
1. Read `references/pivot-types.md` before naming anything.
2. Extract the evidence: what was the old hypothesis, what did the cohorts say, what
remains true regardless of direction.
3. Match symptoms to exactly one primary pivot type. Name it. If two types fit, name
the primary and list the secondary as an explicit rider — never blend them into a
vague "strategic shift."
4. State what validated learning carries forward and what gets thrown out. A pivot
that preserves nothing is flagged as a restart.
### Draft mode (user knows the pivot type or Diagnose has named it)
1. Confirm the pivot type exists in the reference. If the user invented a type,
decompose it into the catalog types it combines and say so.
2. Copy `templates/pivot-brief.md` and fill every bracket: old hypothesis, triggering
evidence, piv