competitive-analysis

competitive-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from aneja5/forge-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,180 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for studying competing products and alternatives before launch. It covers where a product wins, where it loses, and how to explain its position honestly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a competitive landscape, positioning guidance, objection handling, and win-or-lose scenarios from a product plan.
Why use it?
It prevents vague claims about competitors and highlights practical differences, objections, and risks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the forge-skills plugin — 42 skills, 36 commands, 13 agents, 1 hook 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 skills/aneja5/forge-skills/competitive-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add aneja5/forge-skills --skill competitive-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aneja5/forge-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install forge-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 36 commands, 13 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,180 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 5.1 $0.00055 $0.01180
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00590
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00118

Measured 6d ago against content hash f8ce978edba5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive-analysis 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 6d 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/competitive-analysis/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Analysis

Overview

Read .forge/prd.md to understand what we're building, then produce .forge/competitive.md — an honest assessment of the competitive landscape with actionable positioning. The output must be brutally honest about where we lose, not just where we win.

When to Use

  • .forge/prd.md exists and the product is entering a market with existing players
  • User asks "who are the competitors" or "how do we differentiate"
  • Preparing for GTM and need positioning statements and objection handling
  • Investor pitch requires competitive landscape slide

When NOT to Use

  • No PRD exists — run spec-driven-development first (you need to know what you're building to compare)
  • The product creates a new category with no direct competitors — focus on adjacent alternatives instead
  • User wants a quick opinion, not a structured analysis — just answer the question

Common Rationalizations

Thought Reality
"We don't have real competitors" You always have competitors — at minimum, the status quo (spreadsheets, manual process)
"We're better at everything" No product wins on every axis. If your matrix shows all green, you're lying to yourself
"Pricing research takes too long" Public pricing pages take 10 minutes. If pricing is hidden, that IS the data point
"Our moat is obvious" If you can't name it in one sentence, you don't have one
"Win/lose scenarios are speculative" They're based on feature gaps and buyer priorities — that's analysis, not speculation

Red Flags

  • Feature matrix shows you winning every category (cheerleading, not analysis)
  • "Lose" scenarios are empty or dismissive ("unlikely")
  • Competitor profiles are surface-level (just website taglines)
  • Positioning statement is more than one sentence
  • No mention of the status quo as a competitor (incumbent inertia)
  • Objection responses are generic ("we're better") instead of specific

Core Process

Step 1: Identify competitors

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 6d ago First seen · 106 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A f8ce978edba5

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competitive-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository aneja5/forge-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,180 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.