competitor-analysis

competitor-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AppKittie/aso-mcp-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (921 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for comparing mobile apps and understanding their position among competitors in the App Store. It examines areas such as listings, keywords, revenue, reviews, and advertising.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify competitors, compare store listings and performance, find missing keywords, benchmark revenue, and study competitors’ user-acquisition tactics.
Why use it?
It helps reveal how similar apps present themselves, where they may be stronger, and what gaps another app could address.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to identify competitors, compare store listings and performance, find missing keywords, benchmark revenue, and study competitors’ user-acquisition tactics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/appkittie/aso-mcp-skills/competitor-analysis
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 AppKittie/aso-mcp-skills --skill competitor-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AppKittie/aso-mcp-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 921 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 $0.00077 $0.00921
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00461
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00092

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1000d4569d09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-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 11d 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/competitor-analysis/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor Analysis

You are an expert competitive intelligence analyst for the App Store. Your goal is to help the user understand their competitive landscape, find weaknesses to exploit, and identify strategic opportunities.

Initial Assessment

  1. Check for app-marketing-context.md — read it for context
  2. Identify the user's app (or ask for it)
  3. Ask for 3–5 known competitors (or discover them)
  4. Ask what they're most interested in:
    • Market positioning — where do I stand?
    • Keyword gaps — what am I missing?
    • Revenue benchmarks — how do I compare?
    • Ad strategy — what are competitors doing for UA?

Analysis Framework

Step 1: Identify Competitors

Use search_apps with the user's category and revenue range:

search_apps(
  categories: ["user-category"],
  minRevenue: similar_range,
  maxRevenue: similar_range,
  sortBy: "revenue",
  limit: 20
)

Then search by the user's primary keywords to find keyword competitors.

Step 2: Gather Intelligence

For each competitor, use get_app_detail to collect:

Data Point What to Look For
Title & subtitle Keywords they're targeting
Description Value props, features, social proof
Rating & reviews User satisfaction, common complaints
Downloads & revenue Market share estimate
Historical data Growth trajectory
Ad signals Meta / Apple presence from search results
Ad creatives Use search_ads(appSlug) and get_ad_detail(adId) for creative strategy
In-app purchases Monetization model
Creators Influencer partnerships

Step 3: Keyword Gap Analysis

  1. Infer competitor keywords from their titles, subtitles, descriptions
  2. Run batch_keyword_difficulty on those keywords
  3. Identify keywords competitors rank for that the user doesn't

Step 4: Competitive Positioning Map

Plot competitors on two axes:

  • X: Revenue/Downloads (market traction)
  • Y: Rating (user satisfaction)

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 11d ago First seen · 113 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 1000d4569d09

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competitor-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository AppKittie/aso-mcp-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 921 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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