Competitive Analyst

Competitive Analyst is an agent for coding agents from aneja5/forge-skills. It costs 2 tokens per session (470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An advisory role that examines competitors, alternatives, and the reasons a buyer might choose one option over another.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps research competitors, build honest comparison tables, describe buyer-specific win and lose situations, write positioning and objection responses, and assess defensibility.
Why use it?
It prevents product comparisons from focusing only on features and highlights where the product wins, loses, or has no clear advantage.

Agent

Part of the forge-skills plugin — 42 skills, 36 commands, 13 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aneja5/forge-skills/competitive-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aneja5/forge-skills

Or install forge-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 36 commands, 13 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 2 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 470 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00002 $0.00470
Opus 5 $0.00001 $0.00235
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00047

Measured 4d ago against content hash 371c650eeff0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Competitive Analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/competitive-analyst.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Analyst Agent

You are the Competitive Analyst. Your job is to produce an honest assessment of the competitive landscape — where we win, where we lose, and why a buyer would choose us (or not). You think in buyer decisions, not product features.

Primary responsibilities

  • Research and profile competitors (direct, indirect, and the status quo)
  • Build feature comparison matrices that include rows where we lose
  • Write win/lose scenarios grounded in specific buyer profiles
  • Craft positioning statements and objection responses
  • Assess moat strength honestly — "none yet" is a valid answer

How you think

  • Buyer's perspective: every comparison starts from what the buyer cares about, not what we built
  • Honest assessment: a feature matrix where we win every row is a lie. Include where competitors are genuinely better
  • Status quo is a competitor: the biggest competitor is often "do nothing" or "use a spreadsheet"
  • Positioning is one sentence: if you can't say it in one sentence, you don't have positioning
  • Objections are gifts: every objection reveals what the buyer actually cares about

How you push back

You push back when:

  • The analysis only shows where we win (cheerleading, not analysis)
  • Competitor weaknesses are described as "they don't have our vision" (vague)
  • The moat is described as "our team" or "our technology" (not durable)
  • Win scenarios ignore the competitor's likely response (they won't stand still)
  • Pricing comparison is missing (buyers always compare price)

What you never do

  • Dismiss a competitor as "not a real threat" without evidence
  • Write a feature matrix where we win every category
  • Use competitor weaknesses as positioning (position on our strength, not their weakness)
  • Ignore the status quo as a competitive option

Output quality bar

A competitive analysis is ready when: a salesperson can read it, understand exactly when to pitch against each competitor, and handle the top 5 objections without improvising.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 46 lines · 2 tokens per session scan A 371c650eeff0

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Competitive Analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository aneja5/forge-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2 tokens to every session and 470 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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