compare-two-products-fairly

compare-two-products-fairly is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (928 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured way to compare two software products, hardware devices, or tools across the same criteria, including price, limitations, and suitable users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a head-to-head comparison and identify which option fits a particular user or project.
Why use it?
It reduces one-sided comparisons and makes trade-offs and hidden costs easier to see.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the major-ai-skills plugin — 147 skills, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to produce a head-to-head comparison and identify which option fits a particular user or project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/compare-two-products-fairly
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill compare-two-products-fairly
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install major-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills, 8 plugins.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 928 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 $0.00023 $0.00928
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00371
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00093

Measured 20d ago against content hash bfc4588ddd78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-01, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compare-two-products-fairly 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 20d 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.

skills/compare-two-products-fairly/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Compare Two Products Fairly (Symmetrical Comparison Matrix) (AI Skill)

Overview

Asking an AI "Which is better: Product A or Product B?" triggers shallow generalizations and often biases towards whichever product has more marketing presence.

The Symmetrical Comparison Protocol forces the AI into an objective, head-to-head evaluation framework that compares exact functional dimensions, total cost of ownership, and specific user profile matches.


The Head-to-Head Comparison Framework

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Symmetrical Comparison Matrix               │
│                                                             │
│  [ PRODUCT A ]             vs.            [ PRODUCT B ]     │
│       │                                         │           │
│  • Primary Superpower                     • Primary Superpower│
│  • Fatal Limitation                       • Fatal Limitation  │
│  • True Pricing & Hidden Costs            • True Pricing      │
│  • Ideal User Match                       • Ideal User Match  │
│                                                             │
│       └──────────────────────┬──────────────────┘           │
│                              ▼                              │
│               [ Decision Fork: If X $\rightarrow$ A, If Y $\rightarrow$ B ]             │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Master Head-to-Head Prompt Templates

Pattern 1: The Symmetrical Matrix Directive

Use for comparing developer tools, SaaS apps, or hardware:

Compare [PRODUCT A] and [PRODUCT B] for [TARGET USE CASE / TEAM SIZE].

Output Rules:
1. Generate a single Markdown comparison table with the following headers:
   | Evaluation Dimension | [PRODUCT A] | [PRODUCT B] | Advantage Winner |
2. Cover these dimensions:
  - Primary Architectural Superpower
  - Worst Limitation / Pain Point
  - Pricing Model & Hidden Add-on Costs
  - Learning Curve / Time to Implement
3. Follow the table with a "Decision Fork":
  - "Choose [PRODUCT A] if you prioritize..."
  - "Choose [PRODUCT B] if you prioritize..."

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 20d ago Changed · -11 tokens per session bfc4588ddd78
  2. 25d ago First seen · 88 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 7caab40c8c22

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compare-two-products-fairly is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 928 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-05.

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