competitor-alternatives

competitor-alternatives is a cursor rule for Cursor from rajitsaha/100xprism. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,639 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating pages that compare a product with competitors or alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for competitor comparison pages, alternative pages, search traffic, and sales content.
Why use it?
It helps teams explain differences honestly and give potential customers enough detail to choose between products.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/rajitsaha/100xprism/competitor-alternatives
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rajitsaha/100xprism

Made for: Cursor.

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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.

agentmods badge for competitor-alternatives

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/rajitsaha/100xprism/competitor-alternatives.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/rajitsaha/100xprism/competitor-alternatives)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/rajitsaha/100xprism/competitor-alternatives"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/rajitsaha/100xprism/competitor-alternatives.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,639 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 $0.00028 $0.01639
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00820
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00164

Measured yesterday against content hash 49b4915a89f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-alternatives 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 yesterday.

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.

.cursor/rules/competitor-alternatives.mdc · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor & Alternative Pages

Initial Assessment

Product context: If .agents/product-marketing-context.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing-context.md in older setups), read it first and tailor output to it; only ask for what it doesn't cover.

Establish:

  1. Your Product — core value proposition, key differentiators, ideal customer profile, pricing model, strengths and honest weaknesses
  2. Competitive Landscape — direct and indirect/adjacent competitors, market positioning of each, search volume for competitor terms
  3. Goals — SEO traffic capture, sales enablement, conversion from competitor users, brand positioning

Core Principles

1. Honesty Builds Trust

Acknowledge competitor strengths, be accurate about your limitations, don't misrepresent competitor features — readers are comparing and will verify claims.

2. Depth Over Surface

Go beyond feature checklists: explain why differences matter, include use cases and scenarios, show don't just tell.

3. Help Them Decide

Different tools fit different needs. Be clear about who you're best for and who the competitor is best for. Reduce evaluation friction.

4. Modular Content Architecture

Centralize competitor data — single source of truth per competitor so updates propagate to all pages.


Page Formats

Format 1: [Competitor] Alternative (Singular)

Search intent: Actively looking to switch from a specific competitor

URL pattern: /alternatives/[competitor] or /[competitor]-alternative

Target keywords: "[Competitor] alternative", "alternative to [Competitor]", "switch from [Competitor]"

Page structure:

  1. Why people look for alternatives (validate their pain)
  2. Summary: You as the alternative (quick positioning)
  3. Detailed comparison (features, service, pricing)
  4. Who should switch (and who shouldn't)
  5. Migration path
  6. Social proof from switchers
  7. CTA

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. yesterday First seen · 219 lines · 1,639 tokens per session scan A 49b4915a89f9

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competitor-alternatives is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rajitsaha/100xprism (10 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,639 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 2026-09-03.