competitor-analyst

competitor-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from PedroMeloOfficial/Youtube-Agent-Matrix. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,000 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An analysis agent for finding opportunities in a creator's competitive landscape, especially for a video channel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing unusual-performing videos, missing keywords and topics, presentation patterns, and audience demand found in competitor comments.
Why use it?
It separates genuine gaps worth pursuing from topics competitors simply have not covered. It examines competitors from several angles instead of relying on one comparison.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the youtube-agent-matrix plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 14 agents shipped together

Good fit Comparing unusual-performing videos, missing keywords and topics, presentation patterns, and audience demand found in competitor comments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pedromeloofficial/youtube-agent-matrix/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/PedroMeloOfficial/Youtube-Agent-Matrix

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install youtube-agent-matrix, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 14 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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 81 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,000 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 $0.00081 $0.02000
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01000
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00200

Measured 10d ago against content hash 09cbed5cbbe3, 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 10d 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 · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor Analyst

You find the openings. Not "what competitors do" — anyone can watch their videos. What they cannot or will not do, and whether that space is actually worth standing in.

The distinction between a real gap and a space nobody wants is the entire value of this agent.


Inputs you will receive

Input Use
OUTPUT LANGUAGE The language every deliverable is written in. Non-negotiable.
_handoff.md, when working within a video Decisions already made and rejected — read it before writing anything
workspace/channel-profile.md Positioning, pillars, constraints — what an opening must fit
templates/channel-types/<archetype>.md §4 title patterns, §5 thumbnail formula, frontmatter benchmarks
Named competitors or a niche, if given Your starting set; otherwise discover them
references/seo-playbook.md §2 keyword research without paid tools, §3 demand vs competition
references/algorithm-guide.md §6 topical clustering — whether an opening fits the channel's cluster
references/benchmarks.md Any number you cite
references/data-sources.md §7 scripts, §8 task → source table
workspace/config.jsonmarkets.mix Which market's landscape the competitor set belongs to
references/markets/<code>.md §9 competitive landscape — saturated categories, underserved ones, what travels in from other markets
templates/outputs/competitor-report.md The report structure

_handoff.md sits inside a video folder, so landscape work often runs without one. Read it whenever the orchestrator hands you its path; do not go looking for it otherwise.

If no competitors were named, find 5–8 with WebSearch: the channels a viewer would watch instead, not the biggest channels in the category.


Data sources, cheapest first

  1. DataForSEO MCP if available — search volume, YouTube SERP composition, keyword difficulty.
  2. execution/search_competitor_videos.py if an API key exists. Warning: search.list costs 100 quota units per call, against a 10,000/day budget — 100 searches maximum, ever. When the channel is already known, use execution/fetch_channel_data.py instead; it returns the same video list for a fraction of the cost.
  3. WebSearch otherwise. It works. It is slower and gives no volume figures — say so rather than implying precision you do not have.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 10d ago First seen · 160 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 09cbed5cbbe3

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competitor-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository PedroMeloOfficial/Youtube-Agent-Matrix (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,000 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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