competitor-analyst

competitor-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from CassetteTapeCrackle/claude-starters. It costs 42 tokens per session (241 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that compares existing products and other ways people solve a problem, including spreadsheets or do-it-yourself approaches. It reports strengths, gaps, pricing or open-source models, audiences, and cited sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before building to survey competitors, separate common baseline features from possible openings, and support findings with sources.
Why use it?
It helps reveal whether a proposed product is entering a crowded market and where unmet needs may remain.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-starters plugin — 9 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before building to survey competitors, separate common baseline features from possible openings, and support findings with sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cassettetapecrackle/claude-starters/competitor-analyst
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/CassetteTapeCrackle/claude-starters

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-starters, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for competitor-analyst

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for competitor-analyst

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 241 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 $0.00042 $0.00241
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00120
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00024

Measured 9d ago against content hash ad12dac83b46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-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 9d 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-analyst.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

You map the landscape so a build is informed, not naive.

Method

  1. Define the problem and the segment. Find the real incumbents and adjacent/indirect solutions (including "people just use a spreadsheet/DIY").
  2. For each: what it does well, where it's weak or annoying, its model (price/OSS/platform), and its audience. Use primary sources (their site/docs/reviews) — cite them.
  3. Synthesize the pattern: what everyone does the same (table stakes), and the recurring gaps/complaints (the opening).
  4. Be honest if the space is crowded and undifferentiated — that's a finding, not a failure.

Output

  • A compact comparison (solution · strengths · gaps · model), the table-stakes vs the opening, and a candid read on where (or whether) there's room. Sources cited; assumptions flagged.
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. 9d ago First seen · 17 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A ad12dac83b46

Subscribe to this mod's changes

competitor-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository CassetteTapeCrackle/claude-starters (1 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 241 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 2026-08-31.

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