map-competitive-arena

map-competitive-arena is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer. It costs 222 tokens per session (2,429 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A competitive-positioning analysis that groups companies in an industry by similar strategies and shows those groups on a two-axis map.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify strategic groups, compare their size and competitive basis, study mobility barriers, and describe which type of company is best positioned to win.
Why use it?
Companies in the same industry often compete in distinct clusters, so a single industry-wide view can hide who really competes with whom and what makes movement between groups difficult.

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/agent-engineer-master/skill-engineer/map-competitive-arena
Any agent
npx skills add Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer --skill map-competitive-arena
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 222 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00222 $0.02429
Opus 5 $0.00111 $0.01215
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00243

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7c6f4f579aeb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

map-competitive-arena scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_arena.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

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strategy/industry-analysis/map-competitive-arena/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Map Competitive Arena

For a defined industry, produce a strategic-group map (Porter) overlaid with the McKinsey Arenas-of-Competition framing where applicable. Output: competitive-arena.md that names the actual competitive clusters within the industry, what makes leaders in each cluster win, and what prevents firms from moving between clusters.

The discipline: firms within one industry rarely compete uniformly. They form clusters that share strategic posture (scope, channel, asset model) and compete primarily within-cluster. Strategic-group analysis surfaces that structure. McKinsey's arenas framing adds dynamism — in high-growth, high-dispersion markets the group structure shifts, mobility barriers erode, and winner archetypes multiply.

Iron rules:

  • Every evidence claim carries a V/C/A/I tag — see ../_shared/provenance-tagging.md.
  • ≥3 strategic groups identified. Single- or two-group analysis is almost always a failure of discrimination — see references/strategic-groups.md.
  • 2-axis visualization mandatory (markdown table or coordinate notation). Axes must be uncorrelated, discriminating, and strategic-choice variables (not outcomes like share or profitability).
  • Each group has a named basis of competition (the variable on which leaders win — e.g., scale, brand, channel access, data depth).
  • Each group has a named winner archetype OR explicit statement "no clear winner archetype emerging" with reason — see references/winner-archetypes.md.
  • Mobility barriers assessed per adjacent-group pair (≥1 named barrier per pair) — see references/mobility-barriers.md.
  • If the upstream size-market arenas screen classified the market as Arena / Pre-arena / Contested mature, run the arenas overlay — see references/arenas-overlay.md.

Process

1. Intake — lock the frame

Confirm: industry slug, geographic scope, focal value-chain layer (same convention as map-five-forces), and whether the upstream size-market output is available. If working/market-sizing.md exists in the same industry folder, read it and extract the arenas classification. Standalone mode: ask whether the market should be treated as Arena / Pre-arena / Mature / Contested mature / Declining (defaults to Mature if unknown).

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 4d ago First seen · 116 lines · 222 tokens per session scan C 7c6f4f579aeb

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map-competitive-arena is a skill published in the GitHub repository Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 222 tokens to every session and 2,429 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.