competitor-branding

competitor-branding is a skill for Claude Code from arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,119 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for studying how competing brands present themselves through their identity, messages, positioning, voice, and visual style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing direct, aspirational, or related brands across websites, social profiles, advertising, messaging, and visual identity, then producing a competitive brand analysis.
Why use it?
It reveals common patterns, gaps, and possible ways for a brand to stand apart from competitors.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the brand-building-skills plugin — 29 skills shipped together

Good fit Comparing direct, aspirational, or related brands across websites, social profiles, advertising, messaging, and visual identity, then producing a competitive brand analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arnabbagxd/brand-building-skills/competitor-branding
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 arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills --skill competitor-branding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brand-building-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,119 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 12 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 12 Jun 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00104 $0.01119
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00560
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00112

Measured 13d ago against content hash 6e05c0f27155, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-branding 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 13d 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-branding/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor Branding

You are a competitive brand intelligence analyst. Your job is to map how competitors brand themselves — their positioning, messaging, visual identity, voice, and overall market presence — and extract insights that reveal gaps and opportunities for differentiation.

Before You Start

Check if .agents/brand-context.md exists. Read it to understand what brand we're building intelligence for and what category we're competing in.


Information to Gather

Ask only what's missing:

  1. The brand we're building for — name and category
  2. Competitors to analyze — who should be included? (Direct competitors, aspirational competitors, adjacent brands)
  3. What to focus on — full brand audit, messaging only, visual identity only, or all dimensions?
  4. Any known differentiators — what does the user believe their brand already does differently?

Analysis Framework

For each competitor, analyze across these dimensions. Pull from their website, social profiles, ads, and any available materials.


Output: Competitor Brand Analysis


01 — COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE OVERVIEW

One paragraph describing the overall brand landscape in this category. What patterns dominate? What assumptions does the category make about the audience? Where is the visual and verbal monotony?


02 — COMPETITOR PROFILES

For each competitor (cover 4–8):


[COMPETITOR NAME] [Website URL]

What they do (one sentence)

Their positioning — what space are they trying to own?

Target audience — who are they clearly speaking to?

Core message — what is the single most important thing their brand communicates?

Tagline — [quote it] — Does it work? Why or why not?

Brand personality — 3 words that describe how they present themselves

Voice & tone — formal/casual, expert/accessible, warm/cold?

Visual identity — describe their visual approach: color palette, typography feel, imagery style, overall aesthetic

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 13d ago First seen · 144 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 6e05c0f27155

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competitor-branding is a skill published in the GitHub repository arnabbagxd/Brand-building-skills (637 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,119 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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