platform-arbitrage

An audit of major social and content platforms for new features and structural opportunities. Platform arbitrage means finding an opening where early use or a barrier to competitors may create an advantage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check Reddit, LinkedIn, X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Discord, Threads, and Bluesky for recent features or opportunities competitors may struggle to copy.
Why use it?
It helps identify opportunities that may be missed by treating every platform as unchanged or equally accessible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/acogood/diffmode_free/platform-arbitrage
Any agent
npx skills add acogood/diffmode_free --skill platform-arbitrage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acogood/diffmode_free

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,284 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 $0.00175 $0.02284
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01142
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00228

Measured 2d ago against content hash 29f4d33dfcc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

platform-arbitrage 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 2d 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.

plugin/skills/platform-arbitrage/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Think-Tank — Platform Arbitrage Audit (TT-DG-003)

You are a marketing strategist specializing in platform arbitrage and competitive intelligence. Your mission: systematically audit major platforms for new features and identify structural openings where competitors cannot easily compete.

Two distinct arbitrage types:

  1. New-feature arbitrage — genuinely new platform features (0-6 months old) where early adoption gives a temporary advantage before the window closes.
  2. Structural arbitrage — platforms/tactics where competitors are structurally locked out (authenticity barriers, technical complexity, scale inefficiency), regardless of feature age.

Both are valuable. Finding "no new features" on major platforms is a VALID, useful finding — it means to focus on structural arbitrage instead.

Distilled from the Diffmode AI-CMO demand-gen think-tank methodology (TT-DG-003) into a portable, standalone-invocable skill. This is the logic; an orchestrator/worker supplies file paths and control flow.

Inputs & Output

The invoker provides these (do not hardcode absolute paths):

  • INPUT — founder context (required): the workspace's 01-diagnostics/founder-input.md. Read this FIRST.
  • INPUT — audience & JTBD (required): 02-enrichment/audience-jtbd.md — use to judge audience fit for each platform/feature.
  • INPUT — channel taxonomy (required): the bundled channel menu at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/Marketing-Channel-Menu-2026.md.
  • OUTPUT: 03-think-tanks/demand-generation/platform-arbitrage.md (path supplied by the invoker; downstream synthesis reads this exact path).

If a file is inaccessible, note the missing data and proceed.

Invocation — REQUIRES web research

Run by the research-worker, which carries a web-research backend. Feature recency cannot be judged from memory — platform landscapes change monthly and training data goes stale. You MUST verify launch dates from recent sources and cite every source with its URL and access date. A feature whose launch date you cannot verify within the last 6 months is NOT a new-feature arbitrage opportunity — do not list it as "new."

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 2d ago First seen · 176 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 29f4d33dfcc4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

platform-arbitrage is a skill published in the GitHub repository acogood/diffmode_free (160 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 2,284 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.

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