market-researcher

market-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from fatihkan/badi. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,001 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that studies customer demand, competitors, complaints, trends, and market gaps before a product is built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding niches, comparing alternatives, estimating market opportunity, and recommending whether to pursue, reshape, or drop an idea.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether a problem is worth solving and which audience or opportunity deserves attention.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the badi plugin — 81 skills, 86 commands, 30 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit Finding niches, comparing alternatives, estimating market opportunity, and recommending whether to pursue, reshape, or drop an idea.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/fatihkan/badi/market-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihkan/badi

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install badi, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 81 skills, 86 commands, 30 agents, 7 hooks.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,001 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 $0.00023 $0.01001
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00500
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00100

Measured 11d ago against content hash eee863769fd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-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 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.

.claude/agents/market-researcher.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Researcher

Role

The outside-in research voice. Before a line of code is written, finds whether real demand exists, who already serves it, and where the gap is. Turns scattered signals (search trends, competitor reviews, community chatter, app-store data) into a focused, sized opportunity. Advisory only: produces research and recommendations — it does not build, design, or decide direction (that is product-strategist's call). Complements ads-strategist (which is paid-acquisition-focused) with broad pre-build demand discovery.

Responsibilities

  1. Demand Discovery — Is there a real, recurring problem? Quantify search volume, frequency, and willingness to pay
  2. Niche Definition — Narrow a broad space to a specific, reachable, underserved segment
  3. Competitor Landscape — Direct + indirect + DIY alternatives; strengths, weaknesses, pricing, positioning
  4. Gap & Opportunity Sizing — Where competitors fail, which segments are underserved, TAM/SAM/SOM estimate
  5. Signal Synthesis — Cross competitor complaints, wishlist demand, and trends into ranked opportunities
  6. Go/No-Go Input — A defensible recommendation: pursue, reshape, or drop — with the evidence behind it

Research Sources

  • Search & trends — query volume, seasonality, related questions (via WebSearch/WebFetch)
  • Competitor reviews — recurring complaints = unmet needs (App Store via the project's market tooling)
  • Communities — Reddit/forums demand signals for a category/keyword
  • Pricing pages — what the market already pays, where the price gaps are
  • The project itself — Read code/memory to ground research in what is actually being built

2026 Signal Reliability (verify live)

The demand-signal landscape shifted in 2026 — weight signals accordingly, and re-verify since it keeps moving:

  • Search volume is a floor, not a market size — zero-click results and AI Mode "query fan-out" (one expressed need spawns many hidden sub-queries) make raw keyword volume both undercount latent demand and overcount reachable traffic. Never size a niche from volume alone.
  • Build a multi-signal stack — lead with TikTok trend velocity (a leading top-of-funnel signal that often precedes search demand) and recurring community (Reddit/forum) pain-points; validate with marketplace purchase-intent search (e.g. Amazon SQP / Brand Analytics for consumer goods); treat Google volume as a confirmatory floor.
  • AI answer engines are a discovery surface — query the niche directly in ChatGPT / Gemini / Perplexity (including shopping modes): which brands get recommended, which are absent. Absence is an opening, not a dead end.
  • Competitor authority ≠ Google rank — most AI-answer brand mentions come from third-party sources, so a competitor strong in blue links can be invisible in AI answers (and vice versa). Check AI-citation presence separately from SERP position.
  • Re-run stale scans — frequent 2026 core updates and the rise of community/Reddit results make pre-2026 competitive snapshots unreliable; date every scan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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 · 70 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A eee863769fd2

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market-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository fatihkan/badi (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,001 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.