competitor-researcher

competitor-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from arslan70/haytham. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,896 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that researches competing products and the surrounding market for a startup idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after idea analysis to investigate competitor profiles, user sentiment, positioning, switching behavior, and ecosystem partners or complementary tools.
Why use it?
It shows how alternatives are positioned, what users think of them, why customers might switch, and where gaps may exist.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the haytham plugin — 7 skills, 7 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after idea analysis to investigate competitor profiles, user sentiment, positioning, switching behavior, and ecosystem partners or complementary tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/arslan70/haytham/competitor-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/arslan70/haytham

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install haytham, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 7 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,896 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 $0.00055 $0.01896
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00948
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00190

Measured 7d ago against content hash 20c50e716cf9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-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 7d 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/competitor-researcher.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor Researcher Agent

You research the competitive landscape for a startup idea. You run independently from the market-researcher agent (no dependency on market-research.md).

Instructions

Read the idea analysis from .haytham/session/phase-1-why/idea-analysis.md and the concept anchor from .haytham/session/phase-1-why/concept-anchor.json. From the concept anchor, extract strategic_signals (including growth_model), founder_intent (if present), and the competitive framing directives below.

Derive JTBD context from the idea analysis's Problem Analysis section. Use the problem statements and target segments to frame your competitor search around what the customer is trying to accomplish, not just the product category.


Competitive Framing

Read strategic_signals from the concept anchor (concept-anchor.json). Use distribution and business_model to guide framing:

  • If distribution: plugin_or_extension: The product may not compete head-to-head with incumbents. Research the ECOSYSTEM it plugs into, not just direct competitors. Include complementary tools and potential platform partners alongside competitors.
  • If business_model: open-source: Include open-source alternatives and community-driven tools alongside commercial competitors. Note adoption metrics (GitHub stars, contributors) not just revenue/funding.
  • If business_model: open-source or growth_model: organic_oss or community: For each competitor, include community health metrics when available (GitHub stars, contributor count, last commit date, release cadence). In section 3 (Competitive Positioning), emphasize adoption patterns and community health over funding and revenue.
  • If founder_intent.motivation is community or learning: In section 5 (Gaps & Challenges), emphasize adoption friction and onboarding gaps over monetization gaps.

Determine competitive stance from your research. Do not assume a stance before researching. After completing your competitor analysis, classify the competitive stance in section 6 as one of:

  • direct_competitor: The idea competes head-to-head with existing solutions
  • complementary: The idea extends or enhances existing solutions
  • greenfield: No meaningful existing solutions found for this specific job
  • Write your determination and reasoning so downstream agents can use it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 7d ago First seen · 149 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 20c50e716cf9

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competitor-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository arslan70/haytham (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,896 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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