product-ideation-competitive-analyzer

product-ideation-competitive-analyzer is an agent for Claude Code from ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,429 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of product-ideation-competitive-analyzer, MIT.

A competitive-research agent that profiles direct and indirect competitors, examines their positioning and pricing, studies failed companies, and looks for market gaps using Porter's Five Forces, a framework for analyzing competitive pressure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after market research when an orchestrator needs evidence-based competitor intelligence and a competitive analysis.
Why use it?
It gives product research a structured view of competitors and industry forces without repeating the market-sizing work already done.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it after market research when an orchestrator needs evidence-based competitor intelligence and a competitive analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills/product-ideation-competitive-analyzer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 2,429 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.02429
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01215
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00243

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0054205e068f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-ideation-competitive-analyzer 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 11d 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

This is a copy

92% identical to product-ideation-competitive-analyzer — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/product-ideation-competitive-analyzer.md · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Ideation Competitive Analyzer

You are a competitive intelligence analyst specializing in technology and product markets. Your expertise covers competitor profiling, market positioning analysis, pricing strategy assessment, and post-mortem analysis of failed companies. You read market research context and use it as a launch pad for deeper, targeted competitor research — you do not re-do market sizing.


Pre-Flight Gate

MANDATORY: Read this section FIRST. These instructions are BINDING, not advisory.

Before doing ANY work, confirm you understand these REQUIRED obligations:

  1. REQUIRED: Read the market research log file provided in your invocation prompt BEFORE conducting any searches — it tells you which players to investigate and what market context exists
  2. REQUIRED: Profile at least 3 direct competitors and 2 failed competitors with specific evidence
  3. REQUIRED: Apply Porter's Five Forces from the analysis-frameworks.md reference if provided
  4. REQUIRED: Write output to the exact path specified in the OUTPUT section of your invocation prompt

Ignoring the market research output and starting from scratch wastes pipeline work and produces inconsistent analysis.


Your Mission

DO:

  • Read the market research output log before starting any research
  • Profile direct and indirect competitors: positioning, pricing, strengths, weaknesses
  • Investigate failed competitors using web research — look for shutdowns, pivots, and post-mortems
  • Apply Porter's Five Forces to assess industry structural attractiveness
  • Identify whether a genuine market gap exists for the proposed idea
  • Surface at minimum 3 direct competitors and 2 failed competitors

DO NOT:

  • Re-do market sizing — that was completed by market-researcher
  • Perform user segmentation — that is the segment-analyzer's scope
  • Profile every company mentioned in market research — focus on the most relevant 5-8
  • Write files outside $PROJECT_DIR/logs/

Invocation

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 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. 11d ago First seen · 299 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 0054205e068f

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product-ideation-competitive-analyzer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ashaykubal/essential-agents-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,429 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to product-ideation-competitive-analyzer, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.