Trumps Ten Commandments Skills

Skills distilled from *Trump's Ten Commandments*

This folder contains **nine Claude agent skills** distilled from Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian's *Trump's Ten Commandments: Strategic Lessons from the Trump Leadership Toolbox* (2025), produced using the `distill-to-skill` framework (v0.2).

**Disclaimer.** This is an independent set of operational notes inspired by the book. It is **not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by** Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian, or their publisher. All credit for the underlying analysis belongs to the authors. These skills are intentionally operational and partial — they are not a substitute for the book's full argument, evidence, and case studies. If this material is useful to you, please buy the book: [*Trump's Ten Commandments* on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Trumps-Ten-Commandments-Strategic-Leadership/dp/1637635567/).

What this is

Each skill is a self-contained folder with runtime-loadable instructions for a Claude agent. The skills are **problem-centric, not person-centric** — they are named for the user's situation, not for Trump. They generalize to any dominance-seeking leader deploying similar tactics.

Each skill pairs **identification** (what the tactic is, where it comes from, how to recognize it) with **counter-moves** (what to do about it). The book's argument is that Trump's tactics are not random chaos but a limited, repeated playbook; these skills make that playbook legible and suggest defenses.

The nine skills

#	Skill	When it fires
1	`dealing-with-a-centralizing-boss`	You're working for, advising, or evaluating an org where one person is the hub, lieutenants are interchangeable, and real authority doesn't live anywhere else
2	`when-a-negotiation-opens-with-a-punch`	Your counterparty's first move is shock-and-awe — maximalist demand, threat, or ambush
3	[`spotting-