product-ideation-competitive-analyzer

product-ideation-competitive-analyzer is an agent for Claude Code from QBall-Inc/the-bulwark. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,450 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A competitive-intelligence analyst that studies direct and indirect competitors, including companies that failed, using market research as context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to profile competitors, compare positioning and pricing, study failed companies, apply Porter's Five Forces, and produce competitive input for product planning.
Why use it?
It helps explain how competitors are positioned, what they charge, where they struggled, and where the market may have gaps. It adds competitor detail without repeating the broader market-sizing work.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the the-bulwark plugin — 30 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to profile competitors, compare positioning and pricing, study failed companies, apply Porter's Five Forces, and produce competitive input for product planning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/qball-inc/the-bulwark/product-ideation-competitive-analyzer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QBall-Inc/the-bulwark

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-bulwark, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills, 17 agents, 6 hooks.

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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 2,450 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 $0.00055 $0.02450
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01225
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00490
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00245

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1eb67d83941a, 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agents/product-ideation-competitive-analyzer.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 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 · 301 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 · 301 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 1eb67d83941a

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product-ideation-competitive-analyzer is an agent published in the GitHub repository QBall-Inc/the-bulwark (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,450 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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