The Sun Tzu
Framework
Strategy, Deception & Victory
The Art of War is the most-quoted and least-applied strategy manual in history. Sun Tzu's core claim is counterintuitive: the best victory is the one in which no battle is fought. He prized information over force, position over confrontation, and patience over speed. This framework distils Sun Tzu's specific mental patterns into rules you can apply to modern competitive situations where force meets force has simply become too expensive to be the right move.
A glimpse of Sun Tzu's thinking.
All conflict is information warfare—victory belongs to those who see the battlefield clearly while keeping their own position obscured. The supreme excellence is to subdue the enemy without fighting, achieved through superior positioning, timing, and the manipulation of perception versus reality.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
What does my opponent believe about my capabilities that I can exploit?
4 more questions in Sun Tzu's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Sun Tzu actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Sun Tzu's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like Sun Tzu, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →sun-tzu.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →sun-tzu-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Sun Tzu. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.