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Get Started Free →Analyse a workplace power situation the way Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) would — who holds power, whose support you need, what fortune can take from you — then give both the Machiavellian read and the honest modern counterweight. Use when navigating a reorg, a new leader arriving, stakeholder politics, a territory dispute, or 'my project is caught in politics'. Produces a power map, a Machiavellian assessment, and an ethical playing-it-straight plan.
.claude/skills/mohitagw15856-machiavelli-counsel/SKILL.md| Test case | Without → With | Effect | Δ tokens | Δ turns |
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| case-14 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -23% | 0% |
| case-03 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -2% | 0% |
| case-17 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -20% | 0% |
| case-18 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 37% | 0% |
| case-01 | ✓→✓ | ＝ Same ✓ | 4% | 0% |
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| Case | Status | Duration (ms) | Turns | Tokens | Tool calls | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | ||
case-14 | fail→pass | 15,962 | 10,738 | -33% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,303 | 1,780 | -23% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-01 | pass→pass | 9,813 | 9,467 | -4% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,450 | 1,502 | +4% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-02 | pass→pass | 13,038 | 12,377 | -5% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,879 | 2,112 | +12% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-03 | fail→pass | 10,079 | 9,954 | -1% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,381 | 1,357 | -2% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-04 | pass→pass | 8,615 | 5,755 | -33% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,346 | 995 | -26% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-05 | pass→pass | 10,920 | 8,306 | -24% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,782 | 1,485 | -17% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-06 | pass→pass | 10,690 | 10,993 | +3% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,651 | 1,753 | +6% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-07 | pass→pass | 13,136 | 11,677 | -11% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,901 | 1,858 | -2% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-08 | pass→pass | 11,357 | 15,014 | +32% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,446 | 2,360 | +63% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-13 | pass→pass | 12,879 | 16,777 | +30% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,982 | 2,637 | +33% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-09 | pass→pass | 14,467 | 13,325 | -8% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,158 | 2,071 | -4% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-10 | pass→pass | 10,299 | 6,201 | -40% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,615 | 1,062 | -34% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-11 | pass→pass | 13,776 | 14,284 | +4% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,948 | 2,319 | +19% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-12 | pass→pass | 11,662 | 8,169 | -30% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,735 | 1,274 | -27% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-15 | fail→fail | 13,334 | 14,308 | +7% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,362 | 2,026 | +49% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-16 | pass→pass | 20,800 | 10,840 | -48% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,000 | 1,379 | -31% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-17 | fail→pass | 13,082 | 19,766 | +51% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,986 | 1,591 | -20% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-18 | fail→pass | 18,415 | 16,600 | -10% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,903 | 2,611 | +37% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-19 | pass→pass | 16,137 | 23,695 | +47% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,364 | 1,876 | -21% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-20 | pass→pass | 16,662 | 20,384 | +22% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,495 | 1,502 | +0% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-21 | pass→pass | 2,766 | 3,026 | +9% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 518 | 666 | +29% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-22 | pass→pass | 4,098 | 3,654 | -11% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 788 | 782 | -1% | 0 | 0 | — |
DecimalAI ran this skill against gemini-3.6-flash twice over the same eval suite — once with the skill loaded and once without — and compared the two runs case by case. 22 cases were attempted. The headline lift of +18 percentage points is the difference between those two pass rates over the 22 comparable cases.
Without the skill loaded, the model failed this case. With it loaded, the same prompt on the same model passed. This is one improved case from the latest verified run; every case, including any that regressed, is in the table above.
Other measured skills in the registry, with their headline benchmark lift.