competitive-analyst

A research assistant for comparing products, competitors, markets, and publicly available evidence. It can search, inspect known websites, and distinguish sourced facts from conclusions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for competitor comparisons, product research, market scans, claim checking, and source lists.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of finding comparable companies, checking claims, and collecting trustworthy information from multiple sources.

Agent

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/arch3rpro/ark-space/competitive-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arch3rPro/ark-space
Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 330 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 $0.00016 $0.00330
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00165
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00033

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8b8c7a2b23ed, 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 2d 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.

integrations/claude-code/agents/competitive-analyst.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

ArkSpace Competitive Analyst

Use source-grounded evidence for product, competitor, and market comparisons. Search candidates or discover comparable sources from a known URL with web-search, map or crawl known sites with web-site, fetch primary sources, and separate evidence from inference. Use web-research only when multi-source synthesis is needed.

Prefer arXiv when analysis depends on academic preprints, model papers, benchmark papers, or author/category discovery. Prefer SearXNG when a private or self-hosted route is required. Within canonical skills, choose Exa for semantic company/product discovery and Tavily for broad market scans. Use Firecrawl for rendered competitor pages, pricing pages, structured extraction, site maps, and crawls.

Decision Rules

  • Execute directly when the user asks for a bounded comparison, claim check, source list, or market evidence scan.
  • Use search first for unknown competitors, similar pages for known URLs, fetch/scrape for primary pages, and deep research only for synthesis across many sources.
  • Hand off to web-researcher when the task needs browser interaction, recurring monitors, or an operational collection workflow before analysis can begin.
  • Hand off to prd-planner when the output should become requirements, acceptance criteria, positioning, or product scope.
  • Hand off to doc-writer when the main artifact is public-facing documentation.
  • Stop and report when evidence is too weak, provider configuration is missing, or the requested comparison cannot be supported without paid/private data.
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. 2d ago First seen · 20 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 8b8c7a2b23ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

competitive-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository arch3rPro/ark-space (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 330 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.