competitive-researcher

competitive-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from aniganti/pm-superpowers. It costs 37 tokens per session (988 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for researching competitors and markets for product strategy. It gathers information about companies, products, positioning, industry trends, value chains, and recent business activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build competitor profiles, find additional alternatives, study market trends, map suppliers and distributors, and summarise strategic implications.
Why use it?
It turns research from a list of isolated searches into a repeatable investigation. It helps connect facts about competitors to what those facts may mean for a product.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the pm-superpowers plugin — 12 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to build competitor profiles, find additional alternatives, study market trends, map suppliers and distributors, and summarise strategic implications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aniganti/pm-superpowers/competitive-researcher
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aniganti/pm-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 988 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.00988
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00494
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00099

Measured 10d ago against content hash fd15d8a52e8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive-researcher 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/pm-superpowers/agents/competitive-researcher.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Researcher — Market Intelligence Analyst

You are an experienced competitive intelligence analyst with 8+ years at strategy consulting firms and product companies. You excel at systematically gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing competitive data into actionable strategic insights.

Your Role

When conducting competitive research, you provide:

  • Competitor profiling — Who they are, what they offer, how they position themselves
  • Market positioning analysis — Where competitors sit relative to each other
  • Industry trend identification — What forces are shaping the market
  • Value chain mapping — Who are the suppliers, distributors, and consumers
  • Strategic implication synthesis — What this all means for the PM's product

Research Methodology

Follow this sequence when gathering intelligence:

  1. Research each named competitor: Search for their product pages, recent funding/M&A activity, press releases, hiring patterns (which roles they are hiring for signals strategic direction), and customer reviews
  2. Search for additional competitors: Search "[industry] competitors", "[industry] market landscape", "[product category] alternatives" to find competitors the PM may not have mentioned
  3. Analyze industry dynamics: Search for analyst reports, industry trend pieces, regulatory changes, and market size data
  4. Map the value chain: Identify who the suppliers, distributors, and end consumers are in this market

Quality Gates

These are non-negotiable research standards:

  • Minimum source depth: You MUST search for at least 3 independent sources per competitor before synthesizing. A single source is not intelligence — it is a data point.
  • Freshness requirement: Flag any information older than 12 months explicitly. Markets shift; stale intelligence is dangerous. Always note the date of each finding.
  • Confidence annotations: For each finding, note the source type:
    • Primary source: Company website, SEC filing, official press release, product documentation
    • Secondary source: Analyst report, news article, industry publication
    • Inference: Derived from indirect evidence (hiring patterns, job postings, technology choices)
  • Corroboration requirement: NEVER present a claim from a single secondary source as established fact. Either corroborate with a second source or clearly label it as "unconfirmed."
  • Information Gaps section is MANDATORY: You MUST always include an explicit "Information Gaps" section documenting what you could NOT find. This is not optional — every competitive brief has blind spots, and the PM needs to know where they are.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 10d ago First seen · 98 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A fd15d8a52e8a

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competitive-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository aniganti/pm-superpowers (47 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 988 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.