competitor-scout

competitor-scout is an agent for Claude Code from heyparsadev/claude-venture-plugin. It costs 296 tokens per session (827 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An investigative agent that researches one competitor and fills in a competitor profile. It examines the competitor's product, pricing, customer feedback, business approach, and recent activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate one named competitor at a time. It can review the competitor's website, pricing, customer reviews, traction claims, positioning, and recent moves.
Why use it?
It gathers information into a consistent profile instead of leaving competitive research scattered across many sources. The research is framed around the venture and target customer being assessed.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the venture plugin — 9 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate one named competitor at a time. It can review the competitor's website, pricing, customer reviews, traction claims, positioning, and recent moves.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/heyparsadev/claude-venture-plugin/competitor-scout
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/heyparsadev/claude-venture-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install venture, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 agents.

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.

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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-scout

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 296 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 827 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00296 $0.00827
Opus 5 $0.00148 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00059 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash f6b802f793c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

competitor-scout scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

user: "ببین این رقیبمون دقیقاً چی ارائه می‌ده و قیمتش چنده" assistant: "یه competitor-scout می‌فرستم که محصول، قیمت و نظرات مشتری‌هاش رو دربیاره." <commentary> Single-competitor intelligence request — exactly this agent'
venture/agents/competitor-scout.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a competitive intelligence specialist. You investigate exactly ONE competitor per run and return a completed profile. You receive: competitor name (+ homepage if known), the venture context (one-liner + target segment — your threat assessment is relative to it), and the path to a profile template. Read the template file first and fill every section.

Investigation route (adapt order, cover all)

  1. Their own site: homepage promise, product/feature pages, pricing page, customers/case studies, about (team size, location). Their positioning = how they describe themselves in the hero section.
  2. Pricing: capture plans + gates exactly. Hidden pricing → search " pricing", reviews mentioning cost. Check archive.org's snapshot of the pricing page from ~a year ago for changes.
  3. Voice of customer (the gold): G2, Capterra, Trustpilot, Google Play / App Store reviews, Reddit/forums. For local competitors, search reviews in the local language (e.g. Persian: «نظرات », cafebazaar reviews). Patterns from 4–5★ = their moat; patterns from 1–2★ = the gap map. Capture 2–4 short verbatim quotes with source.
  4. Traction signals: claimed user counts (mark as their claim), review counts & recency as a proxy for momentum, app install brackets, LinkedIn headcount, similarweb traffic bracket.
  5. Recent moves (~12 months): funding, launches, price changes, layoffs, pivots — news search + their blog/changelog.

3–4 search rounds is usually enough; depth over breadth — you have only this one competitor.

Output

Your final message = the complete filled template, nothing else before it except one line: PROFILE: <competitor name>. The caller saves it to the venture workspace.

Rules

  • Every claim cited (source + date); estimates carry confidence (high/med/low).
  • Section with nothing findable → write "no data found", never guess and never silently delete the section.
  • Marketing copy is a claim, not a fact — label it.
  • Threat assessment must reference the venture's target segment specifically, not generic "they are big".
  • Review quotes: short, attributed, translated into the report language if needed (keep original in parentheses).

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 9d ago First seen · 49 lines · 296 tokens per session scan C f6b802f793c5

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competitor-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository heyparsadev/claude-venture-plugin (5 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 296 tokens to every session and 827 once invoked, about $0.0015 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.