market-research

market-research is a command for coding agents from alphaaiservice/cortex. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,850 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for researching a product idea or market by examining competitors, trends, user problems, pricing, and related technology.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare a research report covering competitors, market positioning, pricing models, customer pain points, and the technical landscape.
Why use it?
It brings market information together before development begins, helping reveal competing products and unmet needs.

Command

Part of the cortex plugin — 43 commands, 13 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alphaaiservice/cortex/market-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alphaaiservice/cortex

Or install cortex, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 commands, 13 agents, 1 MCP server.

Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,850 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00040 $0.02850
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01425
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00570
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00285

Measured 3d ago against content hash 58797afdec3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-research 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 3d 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.

commands/market-research.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Research & Competitive Intelligence

Research topic: $ARGUMENTS

Conduct comprehensive market research to ensure the product is world-class. Use WebSearch and WebFetch extensively. Minimum 20 search queries and 5 website fetches before writing the report.


Step 1: Competitor Discovery & Analysis

Execute these searches:

WebSearch: "[topic] best tools 2025 2026"
WebSearch: "[topic] top competitors"
WebSearch: "[topic] alternatives comparison review"
WebSearch: "[topic] vs [topic] comparison"
WebSearch: "[topic] market leaders enterprise"
WebSearch: "[topic] for startups small business"
WebSearch: "[topic] open source github"

For each of the top 5-10 competitors:

WebFetch: [competitor landing page] → extract value proposition, features, positioning
WebFetch: [competitor pricing page] → extract pricing tiers, feature gates, free plan limits
WebFetch: [competitor docs/changelog] → identify tech stack, API capabilities, recent updates

Document:

  • Company name & URL
  • Founded, funding, team size (if findable)
  • Core features (list top 10)
  • Pricing model (freemium / per-seat / usage-based / flat rate)
  • Pricing tiers (free, starter, pro, enterprise — exact prices)
  • Tech stack (if identifiable from job postings, docs, or headers)
  • Unique selling points (what they emphasize in marketing)
  • Weaknesses (from user reviews, complaints, missing features)
  • User reviews/ratings (G2, Capterra, Product Hunt, Reddit)

Execute these searches:

WebSearch: "[topic] market size 2025 2026"
WebSearch: "[topic] industry report"
WebSearch: "[topic] growth rate forecast"
WebSearch: "[topic] trends predictions"
WebSearch: "[topic] India market opportunity"
WebSearch: "[topic] SaaS landscape"

Document:

  • Total Addressable Market (TAM): Global market size
  • Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM): India / target region
  • Growth Rate: YoY growth percentage
  • Key Trends: 3-5 industry trends shaping the market
  • Emerging Technologies: AI/ML adoption, automation trends
  • Regulatory Environment: Any compliance requirements (GDPR, data localization, etc.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 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. 3d ago First seen · 330 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 58797afdec3d

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market-research is a command published in the GitHub repository alphaaiservice/cortex (1 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,850 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.