Wardley Mapping

Wardley Mapping is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by tractorjuice in arc-kit.

2.2K stars274 forkson tractorjuice/arc-kitAdded 2026/08/18+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/17

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Install Wardley Mapping

Copy Wardley Mapping into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/tractorjuice/arc-kit/tree/main/plugins/arckit-claude/skills/wardley-mapping ~/.claude/skills/wardley-mapping

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/tractorjuice/arc-kit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/arckit-claude/skills/wardley-mapping/SKILL.md in tractorjuice/arc-kit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/wardley-mapping
Collection: One of 15 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Wardley Mapping does

Wardley Mapping guides strategic analysis by visualizing the value chain and evolution of components in a competitive landscape. Use it when asked about Wardley Mapping, build vs. buy, evolution stages, or strategic positioning.

Wardley Mapping is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Wardley Mapping comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-governance, architecture-decision-records, architecture-governance and arckit.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Wardley Mapping

A strategic mapping technique created by Simon Wardley for understanding competitive landscape, technology evolution, and making informed architectural decisions. A Wardley Map visualizes four dimensions: the value chain (components needed to meet user needs), evolution (how components mature over time), the landscape (competitive environment), and movement (how the landscape changes).

This skill ships reference material, not runnable scripts. Read the relevant section here (or the linked references) with Read, apply the OnlineWardleyMaps syntax, and write the map into the user's artefact. Do not Bash-execute anything from this skill — there is no script to run.

Map Structure

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Wardley Mapping

What else does tractorjuice publish alongside Wardley Mapping?
Wardley Mapping is one of 15 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tractorjuice/arc-kit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ArcKit Build, ArcKit Release and Architecture Workflow. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Wardley Mapping does, and is maintained by tractorjuice in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tractorjuice/arc-kit page.
How does Wardley Mapping compare to other Data skills?
Wardley Mapping ranks #339 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Wardley Mapping against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.